Lexicon tetrakosioi: four hundred Original Word: τετρακόσιοι, αι, αPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: tetrakosioi Phonetic Spelling: (tet-rak-os'-ee-oy,) Short Definition: four hundred Definition: four hundred. HELPS word-Studies 5071 tetrakósioi(from tetra, "four" and hekaton, "a hundred") – four hundred. Note: Scripture often uses multiplies (like "four" times "one hundred" = "400") to convey important symbolic meaning. For example, the product of these two numbers strongly signifies "universality" ("total inclusiveness"). [Ten stands for "completeness/inclusiveness," so 102 emphatically expresses "total inclusiveness" which emphasizes the already inclusive (universal) sense of four.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originpl. cardinal number from tessares and hekatonDefinitionfour hundred NASB Translationfour hundred (4).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5071: τετρακόσιοιτετρακόσιοι, τετρακόσιαι τετρακόσια (from τετράκις, and the term. τετρακοσιος indicating one hundred; (cf. G. Meyer, Gr. Gram. § 16 f.)), four hundred: Acts 5:36; Acts 7:6; Acts 13:20; Galatians 3:17. (( Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, others.))
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