Quick Definition
τεσσαράκοντα Indec.num. forty
Strong's Definition
the decade of 5064; forty
KJV Usage: forty
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | τέσσαρες
60.27 · Number · One, Two, Three, Etc. [Cardinals]
forty cardinal number, where there are forty instances of a countable entity
JHN 2:20 · ACT 4:22 · ACT 7:30 · ACT 7:42 · ACT 23:13 · ACT 23:21 · 2CO 11:24 · REV 7:4 · REV 11:2 · REV 13:5 · REV 14:1 · REV 14:3 · REV 21:17
67.94 · Time · Duration of Time without Reference to Points or Units of Time: Time, Spend Time, Always, Eternal, Old, Immediately, Young
Collocation: ἔτη τεσσεράκοντα
a very long time possibly a symbolic temporal expression denoting a very long period of time Though most translations render ἔτη τεσσεράκοντα as ‘forty years,’ the expression probably is to be understood as meaning an unusually long period of time. See also discussion at 67.93.
ACT 7:30 · ACT 7:36 · ACT 7:42 · ACT 13:21 · HEB 3:10 · HEB 3:17
67.93 · Time · Duration of Time without Reference to Points or Units of Time: Time, Spend Time, Always, Eternal, Old, Immediately, Young
Collocation: ἡμέρας τεσσεράκοντα καὶ νύκτας τεσσεράκοντα
a long time (literally: forty days and forty nights) possibly a symbolic temporal expression denoting a relatively long period of time Most translations render ἡμέρας τεσσεράκοντα καὶ νύκτας τεσσεράκοντα as either ‘forty days and forty nights’ or ‘forty days,’ though it is possible, in view of the symbolic meaning of the number ‘forty,’ that this expression is to be understood as meaning a long period of time.
67.93 · Time · Duration of Time without Reference to Points or Units of Time: Time, Spend Time, Always, Eternal, Old, Immediately, Young
Collocation: ἡμέρας τεσσεράκοντα
a long time (shortened form of [c] literally, forty days) possibly a symbolic temporal expression denoting a relatively long period of time Most translations render ἡμέρας τεσσεράκοντα καὶ νύκτας τεσσεράκοντα as either ‘forty days and forty nights’ or ‘forty days,’ though it is possible, in view of the symbolic meaning of the number ‘forty,’ that this expression is to be understood as meaning a long period of time.
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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τεσσεράκοντα tesserakonta 22x
forty, indecl., Mt. 4:2; Jn. 2:20; Acts 1:3; 23:13, 21; Heb. 3:9; Rev. 11:2; 21:17
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
τεσσεράκοντα (Rec. τεσσαρ-, v, WH, App., 150; M, Pr., 45 f.; Thackeray, Gr., 62 f., 73 f.), οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl., forty: Mt 4:2, Mk 1:13, Lk 4:2, Jo 2:20, Ac 1:3, al
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τεσσεράκοντα. The spelling τεσσεράκοντα for τεσσαράκοντα is adopted in all the NT occurrences of the word, but is by no means common in the papyri during i-iii/a.p.: see however P Flor I. 61% (A.D. 85) (= Chrest. II. p. 89) διὰ τεσ[σ]εράκοντα ἐτῶν, 26. 869 (i/a.p.), P Gen I. 241} (A.D. 96), P Tebt II. 388819 (A.D. 98), P Oxy XIV. 1685'® (a.p. 158), and BGU III. 916* (Vespasian) ὡς ἐτῶν τεσεράκοντία. For the spelling τεσσαράκοντα, which is universal in Ptolemaic times and predominant till the Byzantine age, it is sufficient to note P Lond 2628 (A.D. 11) (=II. p. 177) ἐτῶν τεσσαράκοντα τριῶν (but τεσσερακόστου in /. +), and P Fay 12218 (c. A.D. 100) ὑποδείγματα μεγάλων Teco apaκοντα, ‘‘ forty specimens of the large sort.” The two forms τεσσ]αράκοντα and τεσσεράκοντα are found in the same document P Meyer 61718 (Α. Ὁ. 125), evidence, as Deissmann has pointed out (ad ἃ. p- 43f.), that in non-literary texts (including the NT) a fixed form of spelling is not always to be looked for. See further Moulton Gr. ii. p. 66, and Thackeray Gy. i. pp. 62f., 738.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
τεσσαράκοντα (tessarakonta) — forty. τεσσᾰράκοντα [ρᾰ], Attic dialect τεττᾰράκοντα [Refs]; Ionic dialect τεσσεράκοντα (which see); Sicilian Ionic τετράϟοντα [Refs 6th c.BC+]; Doric dialect τετρώκοντα [Refs 4th c.BC+] and see at {τεσσαρακοστός}; once Doric dialect τεταράκοντα [Refs]; Boeotian dialect πετταράκοντα (which see): οἱ, αἱ, τά, indeclinable:—forty, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II. οἱ τ. the Forty, a body of justices who went round the Attic demes to hear all causes up to ten drachmae, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also cases of assault, [Refs 4th c.BC+]: changed from Thirty to “Forty” after the expulsion of the Thirty Tyrants, [Refs 4th c.BC+]