τετράδιον
tetrádion · G5069 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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squad, group of four soldiers
A detachment of four soldiers
ExamplesActs 12:4 When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, turning him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending only after the Passover to bring him before the people.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- στρατιώτηςsoldier 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τέσσαρεςfour 1
It is given or told toIndirect object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- παραδίδωμιto hand over, to betray 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- σπεῖρα speîra · G4686 · cohort, band of soldiers
- σπεῖρα refers to a larger Roman military unit (a cohort, roughly 600 men), whereas τετράδιον specifically denotes a quaternion or squad of four soldiers. Both are military groupings, but τετράδιον is the smallest unit (four soldiers assigned as a guard detail) while σπεῖρα is a much larger tactical formation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Squad, group of four soldiers55.11
- Luke records that Herod “put him in prison, turning him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending only after the Passover to bring him before the people” (Acts 12:4).
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τετραδιου, τό (τετράς, the number four), a quarternion (τό ἐκ τεσσάρων συνεστος, Suidas):…
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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