Strong's Lexicon

G5071

G5071 — τετρακόσιοι

Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

GreektetrakosioinounOccurrences: 4

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:G5071
Word:τετρακόσιοι
Part of Speech:noun
Etymology:plural from G5064 and G1540
Language:Greek
Occurrences:4
Transliteration:tetrakosioi
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:tet-rak-os'-ee-oy (or neuter tetrakosia tet-rak-os'-ee- ah) n.
Meaning:1. four hundred
KJV Renderings:four hundred

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

τετρακόσιοι, τετρακόσιαι τετρακόσια (from τετράκις, and the term. τετρακοσιος indicating one hundred; (cf. G. Meyer, Gr. Gram. § 16 f.)), four hundred: Act 5:36; Act 7:6; Act 13:20; Gal 3:17. ((Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, others.))

Other Resources

Dictionary of New Testament Theology
Colin Brown

Englishman's Greek Concordance

τετρακόσιοι (four hundred)

Acts 5:36

KJV: For before these days rose up Theudas boasting himself to be somebody to whom a number of men about four hundred joined themselves who was slain and all as many as obeyed him were scattered and brought to nought
GK: προ γαρ τούτων των ημερών ανέστη Θευδάς λέγων είναί τινα εαυτόν ω προσεκλήθη αριθμός ανδρών ωσεί τετρακοσίων ος ανηρέθη και πάντες όσοι επείθοντο αυτώ διελύθησαν και εγένοντο εις ουδέν

Acts 7:6

KJV: And God spake on this wise That his seed should sojourn in a strange land and that they should bring them into bondage and entreat evil four hundred years
GK: ελάλησε δε ούτως ο θεός ότι έσται το σπέρμα αυτού πάροικον εν γη αλλοτρία και δουλώσουσιν αυτό και κακώσουσιν έτη τετρακόσια

Acts 13:20

KJV: And after that he gave judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years until Samuel the prophet
GK: και μετά ταύτα ως έτεσι τετρακοσίοις και πεντήκοντα έδωκε κριτάς έως Σαμουήλ του προφήτου

Galatians 3:17

KJV: And this I say the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ the law which was four hundred and thirty years after cannot disannul that it should make the promise of none effect
GK: τούτο δε λέγω διαθήκην προκεκυρωμένην υπό του θεού εις χριστού ο μετά έτη τετρακόσια και τριάκοντα γεγονώς νόμος ουκ ακυροί εις το καταργήσαι την επαγγελίαν
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