adjective
tetramēnos
Strong’sG5072
of four months
stem tetramēn-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.
τετράμηνος, -ον
[in LXX (neut.): Jg 19:2 A 20:47 A (עַרְבָּעָה חֳדָשִׁים probably misspelled H702 אַרְבָּעָה) *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5072 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(μήν) of four months, lasting four months, σπονδαί Refs 5th c.BC+; τετράμηνοι ὀχεύουσι at four months old, Refs 4th c.BC+; τετράμηνον for a space of four months,Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἡ πρώτη τ. Refs 3rd c.BC+; so τετράμηνα Refs 5th c.BC+
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | tetramēnos1×τετράμηνός | tetramēnas | tetramēnem | tetramēnois | tetramēnais | tetramēneim |
| object accusative | tetramēnon | tetramēnan | tetramēnoin | tetramēnain | ||
| direct address vocative | tetramēnor | tetramēnar | tetramēnoir | tetramēnair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | tetramēnou | tetramēnau | tetramēneu | tetramēnoiu | tetramēnaiu | tetramēneiu |
| to, for dative | tetramēno | tetramēna | tetramēne | tetramēnoi | tetramēnai | tetramēnei |
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
tetramēn 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
tetramēnos“four months”subjectnominative singular1×
John 4:35ouk vis legavō hoti Ēti tetramēnos atō kai tos therismos erchotō? idou …… you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you …