τεσσαράκοντα
tessarakonta
“forty”
Definition
forty
the decade of G5064 (τέσσαρες);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
G:A-NUI
G:A-NUI
Occurrences
τεσσαράκοντα appears 20 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
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.”
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 offeringsforty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
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.
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