According to Donald Parry, in Semitic languages, numbers have no synonyms, with the exception of the number twenty meaning "score." Equivalents in English like twelve (a dozen) . . . do not exist. Neither do the semitic numbers have antonyms. Therefore, semitic numbers are parallel only when the same number is repeated within the passage, (fifty/fifty, thousand/thousand, and so on), or when the a foriori ("how much more so") principle is in effect. There are two examples of this "how much more so" principle in the Book of Mormon (Alma 3:26; see also Alma 60:22): "And in one year were thousands -- and tens of thousands of souls--sent to the eternal world." [Donald W. Parry, The Book of Mormon Text Reformatted according to Parallelistic Patterns, F.A.R.M.S., pp. xxi-xxvi]