Lexicon tetradion: a group of four, a quaternion (a guard of four soldiers) Original Word: τετράδιον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: tetradion Phonetic Spelling: (tet-rad'-ee-on) Short Definition: a group of four soldiers Definition: a quaternion, a group of four soldiers. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom tessaresDefinitiona group of four, a quaternion (a guard of four soldiers) NASB Translationsquads (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5069: τετράδιοντετράδιον, τετραδιου, τό ( τετράς, the number four), a quarternion ( τό ἐκ τεσσάρων συνεστος, Suidas): τῶν στρατιωτῶν, a guard consisting of four soldiers (for among the Romans this was the usual number of the guard to which the custody of captives and prisons was intrusted; two soldiers were confined with the prisoner and two kept guard outside), Acts 12:4, where the four quaternions mentioned were on guard one at a time during each of the four watches. ( Philo in Flacc. § 13 i. e. Mang. edition vol. ii, p. 533, 25.)
Strong's quaternion, squad of four soldiers Neuter of a presumed derivative of tetras (a tetrad; from tessares); a quaternion or squad (picket) of four Roman soldiers -- quaternion. see GREEK tessares |
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