tessarakonta · forty

What it means

tessarakonta (τεσσαράκοντα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “forty”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The number forty.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×1
• Luke×1
• John×1
• Acts×8
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Hebrews×2
• Revelation×6

• Matthew 4:2

  And after fasting forty days and forty nights, afterward he was hungry.

• Mark 1:13

  And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the wild animals, and the angels were serving him.

• Luke 4:2

  for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he did not eat anything in those days, and when they were completed, he was hungry.

• John 2:20

  So the Jews said, “This sanctuary was built in forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?”

• Acts 1:3

  to them he also presented himself alive after his suffering by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.

• Acts 4:22

  For the man on whom this sign of healing had been done was more than forty years old.

• Acts 7:30

  And when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

• Acts 7:36

  This man led them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

• Acts 7:42

  But God turned away and handed them over to worship the army of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘You did not offer me slaughtered victims and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel?

• Acts 13:21

  And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

• Acts 23:13

  And there were more than forty who had made this plot;

• Acts 23:21

  So you must not be persuaded by them, for more than forty men of them are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him; and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from you.”

• 2 Corinthians 11:24

  From the Jews five times I received forty lashes less one.

• Hebrews 3:10

  for forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and I said: Always they go astray in their heart, and they did not know my ways.

• Hebrews 3:17

  And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

• Revelation 7:4

  And I heard the number of those who were sealed: a hundred forty-four thousand, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel.

• Revelation 11:2

  And the court outside the sanctuary, leave it out, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.

• Revelation 13:5

  And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and there was given to it authority to act for forty two months.

• Revelation 14:1

  And I looked, and look, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred forty four thousand who had his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.

• Revelation 14:3

  And they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the hundred forty four thousand, who had been bought from the earth.

• Revelation 21:17

  And he measured its wall, a hundred forty four cubits, by human measure, which is also an angel’s.

And 1 more times.