adjective

tetragōnas

Greekτετράγωνος (tetragōnos)

Strong’sG5068

square

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

Translated as

square1×

What it means

τετράγωνος, -ον

(< τετρα-, v. supr., + γωνία), [in LXX for רָבוּעַ and cogn. forms;]

square: Re 21:16 (Hdt., Plat., al.).†

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

Strong’s G5068 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidtet-rag'-o-nos

four-cornered, i.e. square

Fromfrom G5064 and G1137;

King Jamesfoursquare.

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	tetragōnos	tetragōnas1×τετράγωνος	tetragōnem	tetragōnois	tetragōnais	tetragōneim
object accusative	tetragōnon	tetragōnan		tetragōnoin	tetragōnain
direct address vocative	tetragōnor	tetragōnar		tetragōnoir	tetragōnair
of, belonging to genitive	tetragōnou	tetragōnau	tetragōneu	tetragōnoiu	tetragōnaiu	tetragōneiu
to, for dative	tetragōno	tetragōna	tetragōne	tetragōnoi	tetragōnai	tetragōnei

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

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

tetragōn 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

tetragōnas“square”subjectnominative singular1×

Revelation 21:16“square”kai tas politas tetragōnas keietō, kai tem mēkem autau hosem tem platem. kai metrata tan politan to kalamo epi stadioin dōdeka chiliadaiu; tem mēkem kai tem platem kai tem hupsem autau iseim atō.The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal — 12,000 stadia in length and width and height.