adjective
tesserakontaetos
Strong’sG5063
forty years of age
stem tesserakontaet-2 times in the New Testament2 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** τεσσερακονταετής
(T, -έτης; Rec. τεσσαρ-, v. supr.), -ές
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5063 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
forty years old, NT+8th c.BC+:—Attic dialect feminine τεττᾰρᾰκοντᾰέτις, ιδος, Refs 5th c.BC+: masculine also τεσσᾰρᾰκοντούτης, Refs 2nd c.AD+, (τεττ-) Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | tesserakontaetos1×τεσσερακονταετὴς | tesserakontaetas | tesserakontaetem | tesserakontaetois | tesserakontaetais | tesserakontaeteim |
| object accusative | tesserakontaeton1×τεσσερακονταετῆ | tesserakontaetan | tesserakontaetoin | tesserakontaetain | ||
| direct address vocative | tesserakontaetor | tesserakontaetar | tesserakontaetoir | tesserakontaetair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | tesserakontaetou | tesserakontaetau | tesserakontaeteu | tesserakontaetoiu | tesserakontaetaiu | tesserakontaeteiu |
| to, for dative | tesserakontaeto | tesserakontaeta | tesserakontaete | tesserakontaetoi | tesserakontaetai | tesserakontaetei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
tesserakontaet is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
tesserakontaetos“forty years old”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 7:23Hōs de plērote auto tesserakontaetos chronos, anabainata epi tan kardian autou …When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers …
tesserakontaeton“forty years”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 13:18kai, hōs tesserakontaeton chronon tropoforata autoin en ta erēma,He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.