Tessarakonta τεσσαράκοντα

Tessarakonta (Greek τεσσαράκοντα, Strong's G5062) is a Greek adjective meaning “forty”. It occurs 22 times in 21 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Tessarakonta, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

• Matthew 4:2
  And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

Mark

• Mark 1:13
  And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.and He was there for forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and the angels ministered to Him.

Luke

• Luke 4:2
  Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.where for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.

John

• John 2:20
  Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”

Acts

• Acts 1:3
  To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:After His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.
• Acts 4:22
  For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
• Acts 7:30
  And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
• Acts 7:36
  He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
• Acts 7:42
  Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?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 offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
• Acts 13:21
  And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin.
• Acts 23:13
  And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.More than forty of them were involved in this plot.
• Acts 23:21
  But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.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.”

2 Corinthians

• 2 Corinthians 11:24
  Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

Hebrews

• Hebrews 3:10
  Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’
• Hebrews 3:17
  But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Revelation

• Revelation 7:4
  And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel:
• Revelation 11:2
  But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.
• Revelation 13:5
  And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.
• Revelation 14:1
  And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.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.
• Revelation 14:3
  And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
• Revelation 21:17
  And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).