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forty
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forty
Derivation: the decade of G5064 (τέσσαρες);
KJV Usage: forty
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τεσσαράκοντα R G, but several times (i. e. between 8 and 14) in Lachmann and everywhere in T WH (and Tr, except Rev_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: Mat_4:2; Mar_1:13; Luk_4:2; Joh_2:20; etc.
STRONGS NT 5062a: τεσσαρακονταδυο [τεσσαρακονταδυο, forty-two: Rev_11:2 Rec.bez; Rev_13:5 Rec.bez elz.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τεσσεράκοντα tesserakonta 22x
forty, indecl., Mat_4:2 ; Joh_2:20 ; Act_1:3 ; Act_23:13 ; Act_23:21 ; Heb_3:9 ; Rev_11:2 ; Rev_21:17 forty.
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
τεσσεράκοντα
( Rec. τεσσαρ -, v , WH , App ., 150; M , Pr., 45 f .; Thackeray, Gr. , 62 f ., 73 f .), οἱ , αἱ , τά , indecl .,
forty : Mat_4:2 , Mar_1:13 , Luk_4:2 , Joh_2:20 , Act_1:3 , al.
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τεσσαραμκοντα
τεσσεράκοντα (~ τεσσαράκοντα ) [page 631]
The spelling τεσσεράκοντα for τεσσαράκοντα is adopted in all the NT occurrences of the word, but is by no means common in the papyri during i iii/A.D. : see however P Flor I. 61 .62 (A.D. 85) (= Chrest . II. p. 89) διὰ τεσ [σ ]εράκοντα ἐτῶν , ib . 86 .9 (i/A.D., P Gen I. 24 .11 (A.D. 96), P Tebt II. 388 .8, 10 (A.D. 98), P Oxy XIV. 1685 .15 (A.D. 158), and BGU III. 916 .4 (Vespasian) ὡς ἐτῶν τεσε̣ράκοντ [α .
For the spelling τεσσαράκοντα , which is universal in Ptolemaic times and predominant till the Byzantine age, it is sufficient to note P Lond 262 .8 (A.D. II) (= II. p. 177) ἐτῶν τεσσαράκοντα τριῶν (but τεσσερακόστου in l . .1 ), and P Fay 122 .16 ( c . A.D. 100) ὑποδείγματ̣α̣ μ̣ε̣γάλων τεσσαράκοντα , forty specimens of the large sort.
The two forms τεσσ ]αράκοντα and τε̣σσερα̣κοντα are found in the same document P Meyer 6 .17, .18 (A.D. 125), evidence, as Deissmann has pointed out ( ad l . p. 43 f.), that in non-literary texts (including the NT) a fixed form of spelling is not always to be looked for. See further Moulton Gr . ii. p. 66, and Thackeray Gr . i. pp. 62 f., 73 f.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
τεσσαράκοντα [Etym: τέσσαρες] "forty", Hom. , etc. οἱ τ. "the Forty", a body of justices who went round the Attic demes to hear causes, Dem.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
τεσσεράκοντα (Rec. τεσσαρ-, v, WH, App., 150; M, Pr., 45 f.; Thackeray, Gr., 62 f., 73 f.), οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl.,
forty: Mat.4:2, Mrk.1:13, Luk.4:2, Jhn.2:20, Act.1:3, al
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