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τεσσαρακονταετής

tessarakontaetḗs · G5063 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. forty years

    Pertaining to a period of forty years

    Examples

    Acts 7:23 “But when he was approaching the age of forty, it entered his mind to visit his countrymen, the sons of Israel.

    Acts 13:18 “For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

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 1 entry
Forty years67.172
Paul recounts in his synagogue address, “For a period of about forty years He put up with them in the wilderness” (Acts 13:18).
Word family 15 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

τέσσαρες téssares · G5064 · four · 41×τεσσαράκοντα tessarákonta · G5062 · forty, a very long time · 22×τέταρτος tétartos · G5067 · fourth, fourth part · 10×τετρακισχίλιοι tetrakischílioi · G5070 · four thousand · 5×τετρακόσιοι tetrakósioi · G5071 · four hundred · 4×τετράρχης tetrárchēs · G5076 · tetrarch, governor of a region · 4×τετράπους tetrápous · G5074 · animal, quadruped · 3×τετραρχέω tetrarchéō · G5075 · to be a tetrarch, to be the governor of a region · 3×τεσσαρακονταετήςtessarakontaetḗs · G5063τεσσαρεσκαιδέκατος tessareskaidékatos · G5065 · fourteenth · 2×τεταρταῖος tetartaîos · G5066 · on the fourth day · 1×τετράγωνος tetrágōnos · G5068 · square · 1×τετράδιον tetrádion · G5069 · squad, group of four soldiers · 1×τετράμηνον tetrámēnon · G5072 · for four months · 1×τετραπλόος tetraplóos · G5073 · four times, four times as much · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (T Tr WH τεσσερ(, see τεσσαράκοντα; L T accent τεσσαρακονταετής, see ἑκατονταετής),…
(T Tr WH τεσσερ(, see τεσσαράκοντα; L T accent τεσσαρακονταετής, see ἑκατονταετής), ἑκατονταετες, (τεσσαράκοντα, and ἔτος), of forty years, forty years old: Acts 7:23; Acts 13:18. (Hesiod, Works, 441.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Definite Units of Time: Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour2 occurrences

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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