Quick Definition
τέσσαρες, τέσσαρα Adj four
Strong's Definition
a plural number; four
KJV Usage: four
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | τεσσάρων · neut. τέσσαρα | τεσσεράκοντα · τεσσαρεσκαιδέκατος · τεταρταῖος · τέταρτος · τετρααρχέω · τετραάρχης · τετράγωνος · τετράδιον · τετρακισχίλιοι · τετρακόσιοι · τετράμηνος · τετραπλοῦς · τετράπουν · τράπεζα · τραπεζίτης
60.13 · Number · One, Two, Three, Etc. [Cardinals]
four cardinal number, where there are four instances of a countable entity In a number of languages the equivalent of ‘from the four winds’ or ‘from the four directions’ is simply ‘from every direction.’ The Greek expression does not mean from only four specific directions, but rather from every direction.
MAT 24:31 · MRK 2:3 · MRK 13:27 · LUK 2:37 · JHN 11:17 · JHN 19:23 · ACT 10:11 · ACT 11:5 · ACT 12:4 · ACT 21:9 · ACT 21:23 · ACT 27:29 · REV 4:4 · REV 4:4 · REV 4:6 · REV 4:8 · REV 4:10 · REV 5:6 · REV 5:8 · REV 5:8 · REV 5:14 · REV 6:1 · REV 6:6 · REV 7:1 · REV 7:1 · REV 7:1 · REV 7:2 · REV 7:4 · REV 7:11 · REV 9:14 · REV 9:15 · REV 11:16 · REV 14:1 · REV 14:3 · REV 14:3 · REV 15:7 · REV 19:4 · REV 19:4 · REV 20:8 · REV 21:17
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τέσσαρες, -ων, οἱ, αἱ, τέσσαρα, τά, gen. τεσσάρων, dat. τέσσαρσιν, ({Lchm. reads τέσσερες 7 times to 33, Tdf. 6 to 35, Tr 6 to 33, WH 6 to 34; Lchm. sometimes has τέσσερα, Τ Tr WH always; L.Tr sometimes have τέσσερας (see WH. App. p. 150)]; but no editor adopts € in the gen. or dat. ; see τεσσαράκοντα and reff.), four: Mt. xxiv. 31; Mk. ii. 3; Lk. ii. 37; Jn. xi. 17; Acts x. 11; Rey. iv. 4, ete.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τέσσαρες tessares 41x
four, Mt. 24:31; Mk. 2:3
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
τέσσαρες
(and Ion. and late -ερες, and late acc -ες; v. WH, App., 150; M, Pr., 36, 45 f.), οἱ, αἱ, -αρα, τά, gen., -ων,
four: Mt 24:31, Mk 2:3, Lk 2:37, Jo 11:17 19:23, Ac 10:11, Re 4:4, 6, al
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τέσσαρες, “four.” On the forms τέσσαρες and τέσσερες see WH Wotes*, p. 157. Moulton (Proleg. p. 36) notes that the characteristic Achaian acc. in—es is well established in the vernacular, and that ‘‘in the NT τέσσαρας never occurs without some excellent authority for τέσσαρες. Te adds to the discussion of τέσσαρες as accusative the reminder that the word ‘‘is isolated, as the only early cardinal which ever had a separate acc. form,” and cites statistics from the Ostraca to show how this indeclinable form predominated in business language before A.D. 200 (26. p. 243). The dat. pl. τέτρασι in Ac 115 D is interesting.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
τέσσαρες (tessares) — four. τέσσᾰρες, οἱ, αἱ, τέσσαρα, τά, genitive ων: dative τέσσαρσι (ν) [NT+5th c.BC+]; poetry τέτρᾰσι [Refs 8th c.BC+], and in late Prose, as [LXX+1st c.BC+], variant in [NT], and in good codices of [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—Attic dialect τέττᾰρες, τέττᾰρα, dative τέτταρσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also τάρων (see. τάρες) for τεττάρω; Phocian dative τεττάροις [Refs 2nd c.BC+]:—Ionic dialect and later Gr. τέσσερες, τέσσερα, [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc. (dative τέσσερσι [LXX+8th c.BC+]; since however τέσσερα(ς) and τεσσεράκοντα, apart from Ionic dialect, are not common in Papyri before 2nd c.AD, the LXX autographs probably had τέσσαρα(ς) and τεσσαράκοντ; the form τέσσερα(ς) is here due to avoidance by the copyists of the sequence ε-α-α:—Doric dialect τέτορες, τέτορα, [Refs 8th c.BC+] —Epic dialect (probably _Aeolic dialect_) πίσῠρες [ῐ] [Refs 8th c.BC+]; genitive πισύρων [Refs 5th c.AD+]; dative πισύρεσσι, πισύροισι, -ῃσι, -αις, [Refs 4th c.AD+]: Aeolic dialect also πέσῠρες, neuter πέσῠρα [Refs]; and πέσσῠρες, πέσσῠρα, [Refs 5th c.AD+]:—Boeotian dialect πέττᾰρες, α (which see):—four, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; διὰ τεττάρων the musical interval of the fourth, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ τέσσαρα the four simple bodies of Empedocles, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; the four kinds of quality or four Aristotelian senses of ποιόν, [Refs]; the four cardinal principles of Epicurus (compare τετραφάρμακος), [Refs 1st c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit catvā´ras (accusative catúras), Latin quattuor, Lithuanian keturì, etc.: I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+] q[uglide]et[uglide]or-.)