tessares · four

What it means

tessares (τέσσαρες) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “four”.

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 four.

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

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×2
• Luke×1
• John×2
• Acts×6
• Revelation×28

• Matthew 24:31

  And he will send out his angels with a great trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

• Mark 2:3

  And they come, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four men.

• Mark 13:27

  And then he will send out the angels and gather together the chosen from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of heaven.

• Luke 2:37

  and she was a widow until she was eighty-four years old. She did not leave the temple, serving God with fastings and petitions night and day.

• John 11:17

  So when Jesus came, he found that he had already been in the tomb four days.

• John 19:23

  So the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, a part for each soldier, and the tunic. Now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top throughout.

• Acts 10:11

  and he sees heaven opened and an object coming down, like a great sheet, being let down by its four corners to the earth;

• Acts 11:5

  “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, an object coming down like a great sheet let down by its four corners from heaven, and it came right up to me.

• Acts 12:4

  When he had seized him, he also put him in prison, handing him over to four squads of four soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.

• Acts 21:9

  And this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

• Acts 21:23

  So do this that we tell you: we have four men who have a vow on themselves.

• Acts 27:29

  And fearing that we might run aground somewhere on rocky places, they cast four anchors from the stern and were praying for day to come.

• Revelation 4:4

  And around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones twenty-four elders seated, clothed in white clothes, and on their heads golden crowns.

• Revelation 4:6

  and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the middle of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind.

• Revelation 4:8

  And the four living creatures, each of them having six wings apiece, are full of eyes all around and within; and they have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God the Almighty, who was and who is and who is coming.”

• Revelation 4:10

  the twenty-four elders will fall down before the one who sits on the throne and will worship the one who lives to the ages of the ages, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

• Revelation 5:6

  And I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

• Revelation 5:8

  And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

• Revelation 5:14

  And the four living creatures were saying, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped.

• Revelation 6:1

  And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come!”

• Revelation 6:6

  And I heard something like a voice in the middle of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.”

• Revelation 7:1

  After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree.

• Revelation 7:2

  And I saw another angel coming up from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it had been granted to harm the earth and the sea,

• 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 7:11

  And all the angels were standing around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell before the throne on their faces and worshiped God,

• Revelation 9:14

  saying to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

• Revelation 9:15

  And the four angels were released, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, to kill a third of mankind.

• Revelation 11:16

  And the twenty-four elders who sit before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God,

• 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 15:7

  And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the fury of God, who lives to the ages of the ages.

• Revelation 19:4

  And the twenty four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne, saying, “Amen! Hallelujah!”

• Revelation 20:8

  and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for the war; their number is like the sand of the sea.

• Revelation 21:17

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

And 6 more times.