adjective
tetrakosioi
Greekτετρακόσιοι (tetrakosioi)
Strong’sG5071
four hundred
stem tetrakosi-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 of 26 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
τετρακόσιοι, -αι, -α,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5071 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi2×τετρακόσια |
| object accusative | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | ||
| direct address vocative | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi1×τετρακοσίων | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi |
| to, for dative | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi | tetrakosioi1×τετρακοσίοις |
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
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
tetrakosioi“four hundred”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Acts 5:36“four hundred”pro gar houtaiu taiu hēmeraiu anistanata Theudaos, legarōtos arō tinon heauton, ho prosklinita anēroiu arithmos hōs tetrakosioi; hos anairita, kai pantois hosois peithile auto dialuila kai ginela eis oudenem.Some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing.
tetrakosioi“four hundred”subject or objectdirect plural2×
Acts 7:6“four hundred”lalata de houtōs tos theos hoti eti tem spermem autou paroikem en gēa allotria, kai doulali autem kai kakali eteim tetrakosioi;God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
Galatians 3:17“four hundred”houtem de legamō; diathēkan prokurirētan hupo tou theou tos meta tetrakosioi kai triakonta eteim ginarētos nomos ouk akuratō, eis tem katargara tan epangelian.What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.
tetrakosioi“four hundred”to, fordative plural1×
Acts 13:20“four hundred”hōs etei tetrakosioi kai pentēkonta. kai meta houteim dōata kritoin heōs Samouēl tou profētou.All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.