Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
four-footed
Usage: τετρά-πους, -ουν [in LXX chiefly for בְּהֵמָה ;] four-footed: of beasts, neut. pl., Act.10:12 11:6, Rom.1:23.† (AS)
Tetrapous means “fourfooted beast” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5074 — nadad (“depart”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5074 τετράπους (tetrapous) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. tetrapous (tet-rap'-ous) adj. 1. a quadruped [from G5064 and G4228] It has 25 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include fourfooted. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
tetrapous (tet-rap'-ous) adj. 1. a quadruped [from G5064 and G4228] KJV: fourfooted beast Root(s): G5064, G4228
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four-footed
Usage: τετρά-πους, -ουν [in LXX chiefly for בְּהֵמָה ;] four-footed: of beasts, neut. pl., Act.10:12 11:6, Rom.1:23.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tetrapous, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5074 (τετράπους) appears 25 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
19 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so.
And shall not their cattle and their herds, and their possessions, be ours? only in this let us conform to them, and they will dwell with us.
And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch forth thy rod with thy hand and smite the dust of the earth; and there shall be lice both upon man, and upon quadrupeds, and in all the land of Egypt.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And he commanded the workmen to build the walls and the Mount Zion round about with square stones for fortification; and they did so.
Hence it is, then, that when lusting after water animals and birds, and four-footed beasts, and all kinds of food which are forbidden us by the law, we withhold ourselves through the mastery of reasoning.
But he that knoweth all things knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore hath filled it with four-footed beasts:
First 25 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5074.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so.
And shall not their cattle and their herds, and their possessions, be ours? only in this let us conform to them, and they will dwell with us.
And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch forth thy rod with thy hand and smite the dust of the earth; and there shall be lice both upon man, and upon quadrupeds, and in all the land of Egypt.
So Aaron stretched out his rod with his hand, and smote the dust of the earth; and the lice were on men and on quadrupeds, and in all the dust of the earth there were lice.
And the charmers also did so with their sorceries, to bring forth the louse, and they could not. And the lice were both on the men and on the quadrupeds.
And let it become dust over all the land of Egypt, and there shall be upon men and upon beasts sore blains breaking forth both on men and on beasts, in all the land of Egypt.
So he took of the ashes of the furnace before Pharaoh, and Moses scattered it toward heaven, and it became sore blains breaking forth both on men and on beasts.
And whatsoever soul shall touch any unclean thing, either of the uncleanness of a man, or of unclean quadrupeds, or any unclean abominable thing, and shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of the peace offering, which is the Lord’s, that soul shall perish from his people.
Neither shalt thou lie with any quadruped for copulation, to be polluted with it: neither shall a woman present herself before any quadruped to have connection with it; for it is an abomination.
And whosoever shall lie with a beast, let him die the death; and ye shall kill the beast.
But if he should redeem an unclean beast, according to its valuation, then he shall add the fifth part to it, and it shall be his; and if he redeem it not, it shall be sold according to its valuation.
And the cities shall be for them to dwell in, and their enclosures shall be for their cattle and all their beasts.
But ask now the beasts, if they may speak to thee; And the birds of the air, if they may declare to thee.
For wherefore have we been silent before thee like brutes?
Who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, And from the birds of the sky?
And when he has gone up to a steep mountain, He causes joy to the quadrupeds in the deep.
And when he turns, he is a terror to the four-footed wild beasts Which leap upon the earth.
The vision of the quadrupeds in the desert. In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion’s whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.
And Lebanon is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole burnt offering:
Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
And he commanded the workmen to build the walls and the Mount Zion round about with square stones for fortification; and they did so.
Hence it is, then, that when lusting after water animals and birds, and four-footed beasts, and all kinds of food which are forbidden us by the law, we withhold ourselves through the mastery of reasoning.
But he that knoweth all things knoweth her, and hath found her out with his understanding: he that prepared the earth for evermore hath filled it with four-footed beasts:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5074, grouped by book.
Tetrapous (Strong's G5074) is a Greek word most simply glossed "fourfooted beast". tetrapous (tet-rap'-ous) adj. 1. a quadruped [from G5064 and G4228]
This page currently indexes 25 linked usages for Strong's G5074 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5074 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fourfooted. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 19 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5074, with linked reader references where each row is available.