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τεσσαρακονταετής

forty years old

G5063 Strong's Greek
tessarakontaetḗs Transliteration
/tes-sar-ak-on-tah-et-ace'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 2 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

The Greek adjective τεσσαρακονταετης centers on the idea of “forty years old.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. Acts dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. Debuting at Acts 7:23, it then recurs through the corpus. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
forty years
Modern gloss
forty years old
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G5063 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

2
distinct verses
The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Acts 7:23
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Acts 7:23.
Acts 13:18
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Acts 13:18.
#2,678
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

  • Acts 2 verses 100%

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 0 · 0%
  • Acts 2 · 100%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Forty years 2×
  • American Standard Version: Forty years 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Forty years 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Year 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5063 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Forty years” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G5063 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Forty years” 2×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G5063 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Forty years” 2×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5063 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Year” 2×

Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. of forty years, forty years old

Word origin

Derived from τεσσαρακοντα (tessarákonta) (G5062) — forty.

Part of speech: Adjective TDNT: 10:15,1

From G5062 and G2094 ; of forty years of age : - (+ full of) forty years (old).

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G5063 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
τεσσερακονταετὴς tesserakontaetḕs Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 7:23 1
τεσσερακονταετῆ tesserakontaetē̂ Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Acts 13:18 1

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