Lexicon tessarakonta: forty. Original Word: τεσσαράκονταPart of Speech: Indeclinable Numeral (Adjective) Transliteration: tessarakonta Phonetic Spelling: (tes-sar-ak'-on-tah) Short Definition: forty Definition: forty. HELPS word-Studies 5062 tessarákonta – forty, sometimes with added symbolic sense, i.e. "a full-testing period." That is, the full time (of a crisis, etc.) needed to successfully pass through to know God's approval. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originvariant reading for tesserakonta, q.v. Thayer's STRONGS NT 5062: τεσσαράκοντατεσσαράκοντα R G, but several times (i. e. between 8 and 14) in Lachmann and everywhere in T WH (and Tr, except Revelation 21:17) τεσσεράκοντα (a form originally Ionic (yet cf. Buttmann, as below); see Kühner, § 187, 5; Buttmann, 28f (25f); cf. Winers Grammar, 43; ( Tdf. Proleg., p. 80; WH's Appendix, p. 150)), οἱ, αἱ, τά, indeclinable numeral, forty: Matthew 4:2; Mark 1:13; Luke 4:2; John 2:20; etc. STRONGS NT 5062a: τεσσαρακονταδυο [τεσσαρακονταδυο, forty-two: Revelation 11:2 Rec.bez; Revelation 13:5 Rec.bez elz.]
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