adjective

tesserakontaetos

Greekτεσσερακονταετής (tesserakontaetēs)

Strong’sG5063

forty years of age

stem tesserakontaet-2 times in the New Testament2 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

forty years1×forty years old1×

What it means

** τεσσερακονταετής

(T, -έτης; Rec. τεσσαρ-, v. supr.), -ές

of forty years, forty years old: Ac 7:23 13:18.†

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

Saidtes-sar-ak-on-tah-et-ace'

of forty years of age

Fromfrom G5062 and G2094;

King James(+ full, of) forty years (old).

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

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

tesserakontaetstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

tesserakontaetos“forty years old”subjectnominative singular1×

Acts 7:23“forty years old”Hōs de plērite auto tesserakontaetos chronos, anabainata epi tan kardian autou episkeptera toin adelfoin autou toin huioin Israēl.When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

tesserakontaeton“forty years”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 13:18“forty years”kai, hōs tesserakontaeton chronon tropoforata autoin en ta erēma,He endured their conduct for about forty years in the wilderness.