Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
forty
Usage: τεσσεράκοντα (Rec. τεσσαρ-, v, WH, App., 150; M, Pr., 45 f.; Thackeray, Gr., 62 f., 73 f.), οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl., forty: Mat.4:2, Mrk.1:13, Luk.4:2, Jhn.2:20, Act.1:3, al (AS)
Tessarakonta means “forty” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5062 — nagaph (“push”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5062 τεσσαράκοντα (tessarakonta) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. tessarakonta (tes-sar-ak'-on-tah) n. 1. forty [from the tenth multiple of tessares] It has 150 linked Bible usages across 35 books. Visible English usage signals include forty. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
tessarakonta (tes-sar-ak'-on-tah) n. 1. forty [from the tenth multiple of tessares] KJV: forty See also: G5064
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forty
Usage: τεσσεράκοντα (Rec. τεσσαρ-, v, WH, App., 150; M, Pr., 45 f.; Thackeray, Gr., 62 f., 73 f.), οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl., forty: Mat.4:2, Mrk.1:13, Luk.4:2, Jhn.2:20, Act.1:3, al (AS)
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Strong's G5062 (τεσσαράκοντα) appears 143 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
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20 indexed usages in New Testament.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
113 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Kenan lived after his begetting Mahalalel, seven hundred and forty years, and he begot sons and daughters.
For yet seven days having passed I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
17 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
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And Kenan lived after his begetting Mahalalel, seven hundred and forty years, and he begot sons and daughters.
For yet seven days having passed I bring rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out every offspring which I have made from the face of all the earth.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
And the flood was upon the earth forty days and forty nights, and the water abounded greatly and bore up the ark, and it was lifted on high from off the earth.
And it came to pass after forty days Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.
But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, wilt thou destroy the whole city because of the five wanting? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five.
And he continued to speak to him still, and said, But if there should be found there forty? And he said, I will not destroy it for the forty’s sake.
Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, out of Syrian Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian.
And Esau was forty years old; and he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite.
milch camels, and their foals, thirty, forty kine, ten bulls, twenty asses, and ten colts.
And Jacob survived seventeen years in the land of Egypt; and Jacob’s days of the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven years.
And they fulfilled forty days for him, for so are the days of embalming numbered; and Egypt mourned for him seventy days.
And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to the land they ate the manna, until they came to the region of Phoenicia.
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and went up to the mountain, and was there in the mountain forty days and forty nights.
And thou shalt make to the twenty posts forty silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides.
and their forty silver sockets: two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides.
And Moses was there before the Lord forty days, and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water; and he wrote upon the tables these words of the covenant, the ten sayings.
And thou shalt reckon to thyself seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and they shall be to thee seven weeks of years, nine and forty years.
the numbering of them of the tribe of Reuben, was forty-six thousand and four hundred.
the numbering of them of the tribe of Ephraim, was forty thousand and five hundred.
the numbering of them of the tribe of Gad, was forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
the numbering of them of the tribe of Asher, was forty and one thousand and five hundred.
His forces that were numbered, were forty-six thousand and five hundred.
His forces that were numbered, were forty-five thousand and six hundred and fifty.
His forces that were numbered, are forty thousand and five hundred.
His forces that were numbered, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
And they returned from thence, having surveyed the land, after forty days.
And your sons shall be fed in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your fornication, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness.
According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years, and ye shall know my fierce anger.
These are the families of Reuben; and their numbering was forty-three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.
These are the families of the children of Gad according to their numbering, forty-four thousand and five hundred.
These are the sons of Benjamin by their families according to their numbering, thirty-five thousand and five hundred.
These are the families of Naphtali, according to their numbering, forty thousand and three hundred.
And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and for forty years he caused them to wander in the wilderness, until all the generation which did evil in the sight of the Lord was extinct.
And ye shall give the cities to the Levites, the six cities of refuge which ye shall give for the slayer to flee thither, and in addition to these, forty-two cities.
Ye shall give to the Levites in all forty-eight cities, them and their suburbs.
For the Lord our God has blessed thee in every work of thy hands. Consider how thou wentest through that great and terrible wilderness: behold, the Lord thy God has been with thee forty years; thou didst not lack anything.
Thy garments grew not old from off thee, thy shoes were not worn from off thee, thy feet were not painfully hardened, lo! these forty years.
when I went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant, which the Lord made with you, and I was in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water.
And it came to pass after forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.
And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which ye sinned in doing evil before the Lord God to provoke him.
And I prayed before the Lord forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayed before, for the Lord said that he would utterly destroy you.
And I remained in the mount forty days and forty nights: and the Lord heard me at that time also, and the Lord would not destroy you.
And they shall scourge him with forty stripes in number, they shall not inflict more; for if thou shouldest scourge him with more stripes beyond these stripes, thy brother will be disgraced before thee.
Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
Wherefore most of the fighting men that came out of the land of Egypt, were uncircumcised, who disobeyed the commands of God; concerning whom also he determined that they should not see the land, which the Lord swore to give to their fathers, even a land flowing with milk and honey.
For I was forty years old when Moses the servant of God sent me out of Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I returned him an answer according to his mind.
All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel, were forty-eight cities,
And the land was quiet forty years; and Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
They chose new gods; Then the cities of rulers fought; There was not a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel.
Thus let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: And they that love him shall be as the going forth of the sun in his strength. And the land had rest forty years.
And Midian was straitened before the children of Israel, and they did not lift up their head anymore; and the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
Then they said to him, Say now Stachys; and he did not rightly pronounce it so: and they took him, and slew him at the fords of Jordan; and there fell at that time of Ephraim two and forty thousand.
And he had forty sons, and thirty grandsons, that rode upon seventy colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
And the children of Israel yet again committed iniquity before the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son was forty years old, when he reigned over Israel; and he reigned two years, but not over the house of Judah, who followed David.
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
And Syria fled from before Israel, and David destroyed of Syria seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and he smote Shobach the captain of his host, and he died there.
And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said to his father, I will go now, and pay my vows, which I vowed to the Lord in Hebron.
And the days which David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
was forty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and its height five and twenty cubits.
in extent,
And he made ten brazen lavers, each laver containing forty baths, and measuring four cubits, each laver placed on a several base throughout the ten bases.
And the caldrons, and pans, and bowls, and all the furniture, which Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord: and there were eight and forty pillars of the house of the king and of the house of the Lord: all the works of the king which Hiram made were entirely of brass.
And he formed the house with chambers above on the sides of the pillars, and the number of the pillars was each row forty and five,
And the days during which Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel were forty years.
And Rehoboam son of Solomon ruled over Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in the city Jerusalem, which the Lord chose to put his name there out of all the tribes of Israel: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
And he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Ana, daughter of Absalom.
And he arose, and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights to Mount Horeb.
And he turned after them, and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And, behold, there came out two bears out of the wood, and they tore forty and two children of them.
And Hazael went to meet him, and he took a present in his hand, and all the good things of Damascus, forty camels’ load, and came and stood before him, and said to Elisha, Thy son the son of Hadad, the king of Syria, has sent me to thee to inquire, saying, Shall I recover of this my disease?
And he said, Take them alive. And they slew them at the shearing house, forty and two men: he left not a man of them.
Jehoash began to reign in the seventh year of Jehu, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah began Jeroboam son of Joash to reign over Israel in Samaria forty and one years.
The sons of Reuben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of mighty men, bearing shields and sword, and bending the bow, and skilled in war, were forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty, going forth to battle.
And of Asher, they that went out to give aid in war, forty thousand.
And the Syrians fled from before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand riders in chariots, and forty thousand infantry, and he slew Shophach the commander-in-chief of the forces.
seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
And Solomon reigned over all Israel forty years.
So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: and Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, in the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of the children of Israel to call his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.
The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.
The children of Azmaveth, forty and two.
The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;
But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.
The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.
The men of Bethazmaveth, forty and two.
The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.
The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.
The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.
Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
And his brethren, chief of the fathers, two hundred forty and two: and Amashai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahasai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
And Job lived after his affliction a hundred and seventy years: And all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: And Job saw his sons and his sons’ sons, the fourth generation.
Forty years was I grieved with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart, And they have not known my ways.
And thou shalt accomplish this, and then shalt lie on thy right side, and shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee a day for a year.
No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it, and it shall not be inhabited for forty years.
And I will cause her land to be utterly destroyed in the midst of a land that is desolate, and her cities shall be desolate forty years in the midst of cities that are desolate: and I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will utterly scatter them into the countries.
Thus saith the Lord; After forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations among whom they have been scattered;
And the breadth of the gateway was ten cubits, and the side pieces of the gateway were five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and he measured the length of it, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.
And he measured the length of the doors, forty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, in front of the temple: and he said, This is the holy of holies.
on every side a court, even a court for all the four sides, and each little court belonging to the court was in length forty cubits, and in breadth thirty cubits, there was one measure to the four.
so that the flame streamed forth above the furnace forty and nine cubits.
And I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the desert forty years, that ye should inherit the land of the Amorites.
Have ye offered to me victims and sacrifices, O house of Israel, forty years in the wilderness?
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
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Tessarakonta (Strong's G5062) is a Greek word most simply glossed "forty". tessarakonta (tes-sar-ak'-on-tah) n. 1. forty [from the tenth multiple of tessares]
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