Original Word: τεσσαράκοντα Part of Speech: Indeclinable Numeral (Adjective) Transliteration: tessarakonta Phonetic Spelling: (tes-sar-ak'-on-tah) Short Definition: forty Definition: forty.
HELPS Word-studies
5062tessarákonta – forty, sometimes with added symbolic sense, i.e. "a full-testing period." That is, the full time (of a crisis, etc.) needed to successfully pass through to know God's approval.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5062: τεσσαράκοντα
τεσσαράκονταRG, but several times (i. e. between 8 and 14) in Lachmann and everywhere in TWH (and Tr, except Revelation 21:17) τεσσεράκοντα (a form originally Ionic (yet cf. Buttmann, as below); see Kühner, § 187, 5; Buttmann, 28f (25f); cf. Winers Grammar, 43; (Tdf. Proleg., p. 80; WH's Appendix, p. 150)), οἱ, αἱ, τά, indeclinable numeral, forty: Matthew 4:2; Mark 1:13; Luke 4:2; John 2:20; etc.
Matthew 4:2Adj GRK:νηστεύσας ἡμέρας τεσσεράκοντα καὶ νύκτας KJV: And when he had fasted forty days and INT: having fasted days forty and nights
Matthew 4:2Adj GRK:καὶ νύκτας τεσσεράκοντα ὕστερον ἐπείνασεν KJV: and forty nights, INT: and nights forty afterward he hungered
Mark 1:13Adj GRK:τῇ ἐρήμῳ τεσσεράκοντα ἡμέρας πειραζόμενος KJV: in the wilderness forty days, tempted INT: the wilderness forty days tempted
Luke 4:2Adj GRK:ἡμέρας τεσσεράκοντα πειραζόμενος ὑπὸ KJV: Being forty days tempted INT: days forty being tempted by
John 2:20Adj GRK:οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι Τεσσεράκοντα καὶ ἓξ KJV: said the Jews, Forty and six INT: the Jews Forty and six
Acts 1:3Adj GRK:δι' ἡμερῶν τεσσεράκοντα ὀπτανόμενος αὐτοῖς KJV: being seen of them forty days, and INT: during days forty being seen by them
Acts 4:22Adj GRK:ἦν πλειόνων τεσσεράκοντα ὁ ἄνθρωπος KJV: was above forty years old, on INT: was above forty the man
Acts 7:30Adj GRK:πληρωθέντων ἐτῶν τεσσεράκοντα ὤφθη αὐτῷ KJV: And when forty years were expired, INT: having been passed years forty appeared to him
Acts 7:36Adj GRK:ἐρήμῳ ἔτη τεσσεράκοντα KJV: in the wilderness forty years. INT: wilderness years forty
Acts 7:42Adj GRK:μοι ἔτη τεσσεράκοντα ἐν τῇ KJV: sacrifices [by the space of] forty years INT: to me years forty in the
Acts 13:21Adj GRK:Βενιαμίν ἔτη τεσσεράκοντα KJV: of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. INT: of Benjamin years forty
Acts 23:13Adj GRK:δὲ πλείους τεσσεράκοντα οἱ ταύτην KJV: more than forty which INT: moreover more than forty this
Acts 23:21Adj GRK:ἄνδρες πλείους τεσσεράκοντα οἵτινες ἀνεθεμάτισαν KJV: them more than forty men, which INT: men more than forty who put under an oath
2 Corinthians 11:24Adj GRK:Ἰουδαίων πεντάκις τεσσεράκοντα παρὰ μίαν KJV: received I forty [stripes] save INT: [the] Jews five times forty [lashes] except one
Hebrews 3:17Adj GRK:δὲ προσώχθισεν τεσσεράκοντα ἔτη οὐχὶ KJV: was he grieved forty years? INT: moreover was he indignant forty years [Was it] not
Revelation 7:4Adj GRK:ἐσφραγισμένων ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα τέσσαρες χιλιάδες KJV: an hundred [and] forty [and] four INT: sealed one hundred forty four thousand
Revelation 11:2Adj GRK:πατήσουσιν μῆνας τεσσεράκοντα καὶ δύο KJV: shall they tread under foot forty [and] two INT: will they trample upon months forty and two
Revelation 13:5Adj GRK:ποιῆσαι μῆνας τεσσεράκοντα καὶ δύο KJV: to continue forty [and] two INT: to act months forty and two
Revelation 14:1Adj GRK:αὐτοῦ ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα τέσσαρες χιλιάδες KJV: an hundred forty [and] four INT: him a hundred [and] forty four thousand
Revelation 14:3Adj GRK:αἱ ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα τέσσαρες χιλιάδες KJV: the hundred [and] forty [and] four INT: the hundred [and] forty four thousand
Revelation 21:17Adj GRK:αὐτῆς ἑκατὸν τεσσεράκοντα τεσσάρων πηχῶν KJV: an hundred [and] forty [and] four INT: of it a hundred [and] forty four cubits
