τεσσαράκοντα (tessarakonta) means “forty” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: tes-sar-ak'-on-tah Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.
τεσσαράκοντα · tessarakonta · forty
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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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| forty | 7 |
| for forty | 4 |
| for | 2 |
| forty of them | 1 |
| forty-six | 1 |
| of forty | 1 |
| the forty lashes | 1 |
| where for forty | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| forty | 19 |
| than forty | 2 |
| an hundred | 1 |
| by the space of forty | 1 |
| four | 1 |
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After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.
Read word by wordwhere for forty days He was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He was hungry.
Read word by word“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”
Read word by wordAfter His suffering, He presented Himself to them with many convincing proofs that He was alive. He appeared to them over a span of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.
Read word by wordFor the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
Read word by wordAfter forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
Read word by wordHe led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.
Read word by wordBut God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Read word by wordThen the people asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled forty years.
Read word by wordMore than forty of them were involved in this plot.
Read word by wordDo not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”
Read word by wordFive times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
Read word by wordwhere your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 3.9
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Read word by wordAnd I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel:
Read word by wordBut exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.
Read word by wordThe beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.
Read word by wordThen I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
Read word by wordAnd they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
Read word by wordAnd he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.
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