τέσσαρες
téssares · G5064 · Greek · 41 occurrences
Meanings
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four
Cardinal number, where there are four instances of a countable entity
ExamplesMatthew 24:31 “And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET BLAST, and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
Mark 2:3 And some people came, bringing to Him a man who was paralyzed, carried by four men.
Mark 13:27 “And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of heaven.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἴκοσιtwenty 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὑπόby, under 2
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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In the other Testament 2 words
- אַרְבַּע ʼarbaʻ · H702 · four, forty
- Hebrew אַרְבַּע (ʼarbaʻ, H702) is the direct cardinal numeral equivalent, regularly rendered by Greek τέσσαρες in LXX translation contexts across all grammatical constructions (attributive, substantival, compound).
- אַרְבַּע ʼarbaʻ · H703 · four
- Greek τέσσαρες directly translates Hebrew אַרְבַּע as the cardinal number "four" with identical semantic scope and function across both Testaments.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Four60.13
- Matthew records that Jesus “will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET BLAST, and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other” (Matthew 24:31).
Word family 16 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root τέσσαρες
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τεσσάρων, οἱ, αἱ, τέσσαρα, τά, genitive τεσσάρων, dative τέσσαρσιν ((Lachmann reads…
G5064 — τεσσερ(
[ see τεσσαρ( (cf. Meisterhans, § 21, 4)]
G5064 — τετρα(
, in composition equivalent to τετορα, Aeolic (Doric rather) for τέσσαρα.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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