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Strong G5064τέσσαρες

four

Transliteration
tessares tessara
Pronunciation
tes'-sar-es tes'-sar-ah
Morphology
Greek Adjective

Definition

Neuter and a plural number; four: - four.

Detailed definition

τέσσαρες
(and Ion. and late -ερεν, and late accusative -εν; see WH, App., 150; M, Pr., 36, 45 f.), οἱ, αἱ, -αρα, τά, genitive, -ων,
four: Mat.24:31, Mrk.2:3, Luk.2:37, Jhn.11:17 19:23, Act.10:11, Rev.4:4, 6, al
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G5064 appears in 35 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • four34
  • forty1
  • fourscore1
  • hundred1

First verses

  1. 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.
  2. Mark 2:3
    And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.
  3. 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 heaven.
  4. Luke 2:37
    And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
  5. John 11:17
    Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
  6. John 19:23
    Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
  7. 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:
  8. Acts 11:5
    I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:
  9. Acts 12:4
    And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
  10. Acts 21:9
    And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.
  11. Acts 21:23
    Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
  12. Acts 27:29
    Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
  13. 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 heads crowns of gold.
  14. Revelation 4:6
    And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
  15. 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 God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
  16. 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, saying,
  17. 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 and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
  18. 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 odours, which are the prayers of saints.
  19. Revelation 5:14
    And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
  20. Revelation 6:1
    And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
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τέσσᾰρες, οἱ, αἱ, τέσσαρα, τά,
genitive ων: dative τέσσαρσι (ν) [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.21, NT.Act.12.4, etc.)]; poetry τέτρᾰσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 188, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 8.68, +others)], and in late Prose, as [LXX+1st c.BC+ (LXX.Judg.9.34, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 13.1.3, 2nd c.AD: Hermogenes Rhetor “περὶ μεθόδου δεινότητος” 29, 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “in Aristotelis Topicorum libros octo commentaria - pars” 208.12, “in Sens.” 54.18, “PSI” 10.1126.9 (3rd c.AD))], variant in [NT (NT.Act.11.5 (codex D))], and in good codices of [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 704a11, +others, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 19, etc.; also τέταρσι “SIG” 729.3 (Delph., 1st c.BC), “PSI” 9.1028.10 (1st c.AD))]:—Attic dialect τέττᾰρες, τέττᾰρα, dative τέτταρσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.3)]; also τάρων (see. τάρες) for τεττάρω; Phocian dative τεττάροις [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“IG” 9(1).32.78 (Stiris, 2nd c.BC))]:—Ionic dialect and later Gr. τέσσερες, τέσσερα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“SIG” 57.25 (Milet., 5th c.BC), “Schwyzer” 289.120 (Rhodian, 2nd c.BC))], etc. (dative τέσσερσι [LXX+8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.41, τεσσέρασιν “SIG” 633.98 (Milet., 2nd c.BC)), but τέσσαρες in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, and “Schwyzer” 707 B 4 (Ephesus, 6th c.BC), etc.: codices of LXX have τέσσαρες (_nominative_ and _accusative_), τεσσάρων, τέσσαρσι, but τέσσερα(ς), τεσσεράκοντα)]; since however τέσσερα(ς) and τεσσεράκοντα, apart from Ionic dialect, are not common in Papyri before 2nd c.AD, the LXX autographs probably had τέσσαρα(ς) and τεσσαράκοντ; the form τέσσερα(ς) is here due to avoidance by the copyists of the sequence ε-α-α:—Doric dialect τέτορες, τέτορα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 698, 6th c.BC: Phocylides Lyricus 3, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 91, 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 149, “SIG” 240 I 8 (Delph., 4th c.BC), +others, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.16:)] —Epic dialect (probably _Aeolic dialect_) πίσῠρες [ῐ] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.70, 16.249, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.1110, 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 182; _accusative_ πίσῠρας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.111, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.680, +others, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 105, “IGRom.” 4.360.26 (Pergam., 2nd c.AD))]; genitive πισύρων [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “Vita Isidori” 290 (metrical?), probably in 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; dative πισύρεσσι, πισύροισι, -ῃσι, -αις, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 16.119, 38.176, 236, 39.377, “Anthologia Graeca” 14.7.4)]: Aeolic dialect also πέσῠρες, neuter πέσῠρα [Refs (“epigram Gr.” 988.6 (from Balbilla))]; and πέσσῠρες, πέσσῠρα, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]:—Boeotian dialect πέττᾰρες, α (which see):—four, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.335, etc.)]; διὰ τεττάρων the musical interval of the fourth, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Damoxenus Comicus 2.55, etc.)]; τὰ τέσσαρα the four simple bodies of Empedocles, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.2.2)]; the four kinds of quality or four Aristotelian senses of ποιόν, [Refs ([prev. author] 6.1.10)]; the four cardinal principles of Epicurus (compare τετραφάρμακος), [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Herc.” 1251.11)]. (Cf. Sanskrit catvā´ras (accusative catúras), Latin quattuor, Lithuanian keturì, etc.: I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] q[uglide]et[uglide]or-.)