noun · neuter
tetradiem
Strong’sG5069
a group of four soldiers
stem tetradi-once in the New Testament1 of 6 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.
† τετράδιον, ου, τό
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5069 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtet-rad'-ee-on
from G5064); a quaternion or squad (picket) of four Roman soldiers
Fromneuter of a presumed derivative of τέτρας (a tetrad;
King Jamesquaternion.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
a guard of soldiers (normally consisting of four men), NT+1st c.AD+
II quaternion of parchment, Refs 4th c.AD+; compare τετράδειον.
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | tetradiem | tetradieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | tetradieu | tetradieiu |
| to, for dative | tetradie | tetradiei1×τετραδίοις |
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
tetradie 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
tetradiei“squads”to, fordative plural1×
Acts 12:4… piazarantos titheta eis fulakan, paradōarantos tessares tetradiei stratiōtoiu fulassarō auton, boulorōntos meta tem …… over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended …