τεσσαράκοντα
tessarákonta · G5062 · Greek · 22 occurrences
Meanings
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forty
Cardinal number, where there are forty instances of a countable entity
ExamplesJohn 2:20 The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and yet You will raise it up in three days?”
Acts 4:22 for the man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.
Acts 7:30 “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn bush.
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a very long time
Possibly a symbolic temporal expression denoting a very long period of time
ExamplesActs 7:30 “After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn bush.
Acts 7:36 “This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
Acts 7:42 “But God turned away and gave them over to serve the heavenly lights; as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘YOU DID NOT OFFER ME VICTIMS AND SACRIFICES FOR FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS, DID YOU, HOUSE OF ISRAEL?
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a long time
(Literally: forty days and forty nights) Possibly a symbolic temporal expression denoting a relatively long period of time
ExamplesMatthew 4:2 And after He had fasted for forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry.
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a long time
A long time, a shortened form of forty days and forty nights, possibly a symbolic temporal expression denoting a relatively long period of time
ExamplesMark 1:13 And He was in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by Satan; and He was with the wild animals, and the angels were serving Him.
Luke 4:2 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.
Acts 1:3 To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of things regarding the kingdom of God.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- λαμβάνωto receive, to take 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Forty60.27
- Matthew records that “after He had fasted for forty days and forty nights, He then became hungry” (Matthew 4:2).
- A long time67.93
- Luke records that Jesus “presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of things regarding the kingdom of God” (Acts 1:3).
- A very long time67.94
- Luke records that the man healed at the temple gate was well known, “for the man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed was more than forty years old” (Acts 4:22).
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon R G, but several times (i. e. between 8 and 14) in Lachmann and everywhere in T WH (and…
G5062a: τεσσαρακονταδυο
[, forty-two: Rev 11:2 Rec.bez; Rev 13:5 Rec.bez elz.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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