Word Summary
tessarakonta: forty
Original Word: τεσσαράκονταTransliteration: tessarakonta
Phonetic Spelling: (tes-sar-ak'-on-tah)
Part of Speech: Indeclinable Numeral (Adjective)
Short Definition: forty
Meaning: forty
Strong's Concordance
forty.
The decade of tessares; forty -- forty.
see GREEK tessares
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5062: τεσσαράκοντατεσσαράκοντα R G, but several times (i. e. between 8 and 14) in Lachmann and everywhere in
T WH (and
Tr, except
Revelation 21:17)
τεσσεράκοντα (a form originally Ionic (yet cf.
Buttmann, as below); see Kühner, § 187, 5;
Buttmann, 28f (25f); cf.
Winers Grammar, 43; (
Tdf. Proleg., p. 80;
WH's Appendix, p. 150)),
οἱ,
αἱ,
τά, indeclinable numeral,
forty:
Matthew 4:2;
Mark 1:13;
Luke 4:2;
John 2:20; etc.
STRONGS NT 5062a: τεσσαρακονταδυο [τεσσαρακονταδυο, forty-two: Revelation 11:2 Rec.bez; Revelation 13:5 Rec.bez elz.]