τέταρτος
fourth
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 3 times (30%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 2 times (20%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 1 time (10%)
- Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (10%)
- Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 1 time (10%)
- Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Neuter 1 time (10%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 1 time (10%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5067 appears — 9 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
Revelation 6 verses
- Revelation 4:7 τέταρτον adj nom sg neut The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.
- Revelation 6:7 τετάρτην τετάρτου adj acc sg fem adj gen sg neut When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see!"
- Revelation 6:8 τέταρτον adj acc sg neut And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.
- Revelation 8:12 τέταρτος adj nom sg masc The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn't shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.
- Revelation 16:8 τέταρτος adj nom sg masc The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
- Revelation 21:19 τέταρτος adj nom sg masc The foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
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.
At its core, τεταρτος (tétartos) means “fourth.” The word gravitates to Revelation (67%), then Matthew and Mark. It appears 9 verses across 4 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 14:25. It clusters with τεσσαρες, τεσσαρακοντα and τεσσαρεσκαιδεκατος under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5067 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 6 verses 67%
- Matthew 1 verse 11%
- Mark 1 verse 11%
By section of the New Testament
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 9 distinct verses.
- Johannine 6 verses · 67%
- Revelation 6 verses · 67%
- Gospels 2 verses · 22%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 11%
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: Fourth 8×
- American Standard Version: Fourth 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fourth 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fourth 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5067 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5067 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5067 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5067 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- the fourth
Word origin
Derived from τεσσαρες (téssares) (G5064) — four.
From G5064 ; fourth : - four (-th).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G5067 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| τέταρτος tétartos | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Revelation 8:12 | 3 |
| τέταρτον tétarton | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Revelation 6:8 | 2 |
| τετάρτην tetártēn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Mark 6:48 | 2 |
| τετάρτης tetártēs | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Acts 10:30 | 1 |
| τετάρτου tetártou | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Revelation 6:7 | 1 |
| τετάρτῃ tetártē | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 14:25 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5067, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- τεσσαρακοντα tessarákonta G5062 forty
- τεσσαρεσκαιδεκατος tessareskaidékatos G5065 fourteenth
- τεταρταιος tetartaîos G5066 fourth day
- τετραγωνος tetrágōnos G5068 square
- τετραδιον tetrádion G5069 quaternion
- τετρακισχιλιοι tetrakischílioi G5070 four thousand
- τετρακοσιοι tetrakósioi G5071 four hundred
- τετραμηνον tetrámēnon G5072 four months
- τετραπλοος tetraplóos G5073 fourfold
- τετραπους tetrápous G5074 four-footed animal
- τετραρχης tetrárchēs G5076 tetrarch
- τραπεζα trápeza G5132 table
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 14 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word τεταρτος appears 87 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 77 verses in 20 books.
- 87
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 77
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 20 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 20 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:19 τέταρτος
- Exodus 20:5 τέταρτος
- Leviticus 19:24 τέταρτος
- Numbers 7:30 τέταρτος
- Deuteronomy 5:9 τέταρτος
- Joshua 15:7 τέταρτος
- Judges 14:15 τέταρτος
- 1 Samuel 9:8 τέταρτος
- 2 Samuel 3:4 τέταρτος
- 1 Kings 6:1 τέταρτος
- 2 Kings 6:25 τέταρτος
- 1 Chronicles 2:14 τέταρτος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5067) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 77. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:19 τέταρτος There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
- Genesis 2:14 τέταρτος The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
- Genesis 15:16 τέταρτος In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
- Exodus 20:5 τέταρτος you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Exodus 28:20 τέταρτος and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.
- Exodus 29:40 τέταρτος and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering.
- Exodus 34:7 τέταρτος keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
- Exodus 36:20 τέταρτος He made the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.
- Leviticus 19:24 τέταρτος But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, for giving praise to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 23:13 τέταρτος The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a sweet savor; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
- Numbers 7:30 τέταρτος On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben
- Numbers 10:6 τέταρτος When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
- Numbers 14:18 τέταρτος Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.
- Numbers 15:4 τέταρτος then shall he who offers his offering offer to Yahweh a meal-offering of a tenth part [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of oil:
- Numbers 15:5 τέταρτος and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
- Numbers 28:5 τέταρτος and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
- Numbers 28:7 τέταρτος The drink-offering of it shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shall you pour out a drink-offering of strong drink to Yahweh.
- Numbers 28:14 τέταρτος Their drink-offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
- Numbers 29:23 τέταρτος On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
- Deuteronomy 5:9 τέταρτος you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;
- Joshua 15:7 τέταρτος and the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river; and the border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and the goings out of it were at En Rogel;
- Joshua 19:17 τέταρτος The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
- Judges 14:15 τέταρτος It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire: have you called us to impoverish us? is it not [so]?
- Judges 19:5 τέταρτος It happened on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, and he rose up to depart: and the young lady's father said to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way.
- 1 Samuel 9:8 τέταρτος The servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
- 2 Samuel 3:4 τέταρτος and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;
- 1 Kings 6:1 τέταρτος It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 15:8 τέταρτος Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 15:9 τέταρτος In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.
- 1 Kings 22:41 τέταρτος Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
- 2 Kings 6:25 τέταρτος There was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver.
- 2 Kings 10:30 τέταρτος Yahweh said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, [and] have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
- 2 Kings 15:12 τέταρτος This was the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. So it came to pass.
- 2 Kings 18:9 τέταρτος It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
- 1 Chronicles 2:14 τέταρτος Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
- 1 Chronicles 3:2 τέταρτος the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;
- 1 Chronicles 3:15 τέταρτος The sons of Josiah: the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
- 1 Chronicles 8:2 τέταρτος Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
- 1 Chronicles 12:11 τέταρτος Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
- 1 Chronicles 23:19 τέταρτος The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.
- 1 Chronicles 24:8 τέταρτος the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
- 1 Chronicles 24:18 τέταρτος the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
- 1 Chronicles 24:23 τέταρτος The sons [of Hebron]: Jeriah [the chief], Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.
- 1 Chronicles 25:11 τέταρτος the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
- 1 Chronicles 25:31 τέταρτος for the four and twentieth to Romamtiezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.
- 1 Chronicles 26:2 τέταρτος Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
- 1 Chronicles 26:4 τέταρτος Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth,
- 1 Chronicles 26:11 τέταρτος Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.
- 1 Chronicles 27:7 τέταρτος The fourth [captain] for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- 2 Chronicles 3:2 τέταρτος He began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5067) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
