τέσσαρες tessares

Greek word for “four” · Strong’s G5064 · used 41 times in 35 verses

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Meaning

τέσσαρες; (and Ion. and late -ερεν, and late accusative -εν; see WH, App., 150;

How it is translated

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

• four 41

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Revelation 4 (4), Revelation 7 (4), Revelation 5 (3), Revelation 9 (3), Acts 21 (2), Revelation 6 (2), Revelation 14 (2), Matthew 24 (1), Mark 2 (1), Mark 13 (1)

Forms

• τεσσάρων 12
• τέσσαρες 11
• τέσσαρας 7
• τέσσαρα 6
• τέσσαρσιν 5

Words used with it

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

• ζῷον zōon “living thing” 11
• πρεσβύτερος presbuteros “elder” 9
• θρόνος thronos “throne” 8
• ἄγγελος angelos “angel” 10
• εἴκοσι eikosi “twenty” 5
• ἐνώπιον enōpion “before” 7
• πίπτω piptō “to collapse” 6
• γέμω gemō “be full” 4
• γῆ gē “earth” 7
• προσκυνέω proskuneō “to worship” 5
• χρύσεος chruseos “golden” 4
• ἑκατόν hekaton “hundred” 4

Key verses

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

• Matthew 24:31 — And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
• Mark 13:27 — And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of…
• Acts 10:11 — And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
• Revelation 4:4 — And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their…
• Revelation 4:8 — And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord…
• Revelation 4:10 — The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne,…
• Revelation 5:6 — And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns…
• Revelation 5:8 — And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of…
• 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 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…
• Revelation 20:8 — And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as…

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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.