tetragōnas

Strong’sG5068

square

stem tetragōn-once in the New Testament1 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.

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

τετράγων-ος [ᾰ], ον,
with four angles, but usually square, Refs 5th c.BC+; δοκοὶ τ. squared, Refs 5th c.BC+; ξύλα τ. Refs 4th c.BC+; τ. ἐργασία, of the Hermes-statues, Refs 5th c.BC+; κύκλος τετράγωνος ταῖς ἐπιφανείαις a ring with four surfaces, the breadth of the outer and inner equal to the depth of the two sides, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 τὸ τ. a square, Refs 5th c.BC+, and frequently in Geometry texts, but sometimes of any quadrilateral, Refs 4th c.BC+ “*Deff.” 100, Refs 5th c.AD+
2.b in Tactics, a body of men drawn up in square, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 τ. ἀριθμός a square number, i.e. a number made up of two equal factors, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 in quartile aspect, Refs 1st c.BC+
II metaphorically, square, i.e. perfect as a square, χερσί τε καὶ ποσὶ καὶ νόῳ τετράγωνος τετυγμένος Refs 4th c.BC+
III ἱμάτιον τ., of the χλαῖνα which hung square, while the χλαμύς took a circular form, Refs; contrasted with the ἡμικύκλιον formed by the Roman toga, Refs 2nd c.BC+
III.2 οἱ ἔμποροι καὶ οἱ τὴν τ. ἐργαζόμενοι perhaps those who trade in the ἀγορὰ τετράγωνος, Durrbach Choix d'Inscrr. de Délos Refs
IV adverb -νωςRefs 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.

square1×

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	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

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

tetragōnas“square”subjectnominative singular1×

Revelation 21:16“square”kai tas polas tetragōnas keiotō, kai tem mēkem autau hosem …The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its …