τεσσαράκοντα tessarakonta

Greek word for “forty” · Strong’s G5062 · used 22 times in 21 verses

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Meaning

τεσσεράκοντα (Rec. τεσσαρ-, v, WH, App., 150; M, Pr., 45 f.; Thackeray, Gr., 62 f., 73 f.), οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl.; forty:, al;

How it is translated

Glosses given for tessarakonta in context, with how often each is used:

• forty 18
• than forty 2
• forty - 1
• forty lashes 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Acts 7 (3), Acts 23 (2), Hebrews 3 (2), Revelation 14 (2), Matthew 4 (1), Mark 1 (1), Luke 4 (1), John 2 (1), Acts 1 (1), Acts 4 (1)

Forms

• τεσσεράκοντα 22

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tessarakonta more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἔτος etos “year” 8
• ἔρημος erēmos “deserted” 5
• ἑκατόν hekaton “hundred” 4
• τέσσαρες tessares “four” 4
• χιλιάς chilias “thousand” 3
• πειράζω peirazō “to test/tempt” 3
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 5
• μετρέω metreō “to measure” 2
• μήν mēn “month” 2
• πεινάω peinaō “to hunger” 2
• φυλή phulē “tribe” 2
• ἄγγελος angelos “angel” 3

Key verses

The verses using tessarakonta that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 4:2 — And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
• Acts 1:3 — To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the…
• Acts 7:30 — And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
• Acts 7:36 — He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
• Acts 7:42 — Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me…
• Hebrews 3:9 — When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
• Hebrews 3:17 — But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
• Revelation 7:4 — And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
• Revelation 11:2 — But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty…
• Revelation 13:5 — And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
• Revelation 14:1 — And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
• Revelation 14:3 — And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.