Greek a-nui · G5062
τεσσαράκοντα
tessarakontates-sar-ak'-on-tah
forty
21 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tessarákonta
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5062is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5062
forty
The King James renders it: forty.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tessarakonta is rendered "forty". It stands 21 times in the Greek text, across eight books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 4:2After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
The first use
After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
Matthew 4:2τεσσεράκοντα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's twenty-one uses are in Acts.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- forty17
- than forty2
- For forty1
- forty -1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| τεσσαρακονταετής | tessarakontaetes | forty years | Uses2 |
| τεσσαρεσκαιδέκατος | tessareskaidekatos | fourteenth | Uses2 |
All 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- τεσσεράκοντα21
The grammar of each form
- number, same in every case21A-NUI
Matthew
two uses
After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
Mark
one use
and He was there for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered to Him.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
Luke
one use
where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
John
one use
“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: For forty
Acts
eight uses
After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty -
After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
More than forty of them were involved in this plot.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: than forty
Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: than forty
2 Corinthians
one use
Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
Hebrews
one use
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
Revelation
six uses
And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel:
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.
- τεσσεράκονταtesserakontanumber, same in every casetagged: forty
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.