being or containing three times twenty; sixty.

What does the Bible say about three scores and ten?

From the Bible, Psalm 90, verse 10: “The days of our years are three score and ten.”

How many people is threescore and ten?

‘Three score and ten’ is the nominal span of a human life. In the days that this expression was coined that span was considered to be seventy years. Threescore used to be used for sixty, in the way that we still use a dozen for twelve, and (occasionally) score for twenty.