adjective

tetartaios

Greekτεταρταῖος (tetartaios)

Strong’sG5066

four days since

stem tetartai-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

four days1×

What it means

τεταρταῖος, -α, -ον

(< τέταρτος), [in LXX: II Ki 3:4 A (רְבִיעִי) *;]

of or on the fourth day: τ. εἶναι (Hdt., τ. γενέσθαι), to be four days dead, Jo 11:39.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5066 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidtet-ar-tah'-yos

pertaining to the fourth day

Fromfrom G5064;

King Jamesfour days.

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	tetartaios1×τεταρταῖος	tetartaias	tetartaiem	tetartaiois	tetartaiais	tetartaieim
object accusative	tetartaion	tetartaian		tetartaioin	tetartaiain
direct address vocative	tetartaior	tetartaiar		tetartaioir	tetartaiair
of, belonging to genitive	tetartaiou	tetartaiau	tetartaieu	tetartaioiu	tetartaiaiu	tetartaieiu
to, for dative	tetartaio	tetartaia	tetartaie	tetartaioi	tetartaiai	tetartaiei

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

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

tetartai 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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

tetartaios“four days”subjectnominative singular1×

John 11:39“four days”legatō tos Iēsus; Airavar ton lithon. legatō auto tas adelfas tou teleutarētou Marthas; Kurior, ēdē ozatō, tetartaios gar atō.“Take away the stone,” Jesus said. “Lord, by now he stinks,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man. “It has already been four days.”