Greek noun (neuter) · G5069
τετράδιον
tetradiontet-rad'-ee-on
squad of four
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tetrádion
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5069is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5069
a quaternion or squad (picket) of four Roman soldiers
The King James renders it: quaternion.
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
tetradion is rendered "squad of four". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 12:4He arrested him and put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
The first use
He arrested him and put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
Acts 12:4τετραδίοις
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- sets of four1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| τετρακισχίλιοι | tetrakischilioi | four thousand | Uses5 |
| τετράρχης | tetrarches | tetrarch | Uses4 |
| τετράπους | tetrapous | four-footed | Uses3 |
| τετραρχέω | tetrarcheo | be a tetrarch | Uses3 |
| τετράγωνος | tetragonos | square | Uses1 |
| τετράμηνον | tetramenon | four months | Uses1 |
| τετραπλόος | tetraploos | fourfold | Uses1 |
All 1, 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
- τετραδίοις1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural1N-DPN
Acts
one use
He arrested him and put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out to the people after the Passover.
- τετραδίοιςtetradioisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: sets of four
Where it leads
On this page
Studies1
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 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.