Word Summary
tetartaios: of forty years
Original Word: τεταρταῖοςTransliteration: tetartaios
Phonetic Spelling: (tet-ar-tah'-yos)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: of forty years
Meaning: of forty years
Strong's Concordance
four days.
From tessares; pertaining to the fourth day -- four days.
see GREEK tessares
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5066: τεταρταῖοςτεταρταῖος,
τεταρταια,
τεταρταιον (
τέταρτος), an ordinal numeral, used in answer to the question on what day?
one who does or suffers a thing till the fourth day or on the fourth day:
τεταρταῖος ἐστιν, i. e. he has been four days in the tomb, or it is the fourth day since he was buried (
A. V. he hath been dead four days),
John 11:39 (
ἤδη γάρ ἦσαν πεμπταιοι, already five days dead,
Xenophon, an. 6, 4 (2), 9).