τετράγωνος
square
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5068 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Revelation 1 verse
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.
τετραγωνος — transliterated tetrágōnos — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “square.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Revelation. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Revelation 21:16. It shares a root with τεσσαρες, τεσσαρακοντα and τεσσαρεσκαιδεκατος. 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 G5068 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Johannine 1 verse · 100%
- Revelation 1 verse · 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: Foursquare 1×
- American Standard Version: Foursquare 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Foursquare 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Square 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5068 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5068 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5068 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5068 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- quadrangular, square
Word origin
Derived from τεσσαρες (téssares) (G5064) — four.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5068, 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
- τεταρτος tétartos G5067 fourth
- 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 τετραγωνος appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 4 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:14 τετράγωνος
- Exodus 27:1 τετράγωνος
- 1 Kings 7:42 τετράγωνος
- Ezekiel 41:21 τετράγωνος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5068) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 6:14 τετράγωνος Make an ark of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ark, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.
- Exodus 27:1 τετράγωνος "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits.
- Exodus 28:16 τετράγωνος It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth.
- Exodus 30:2 τετράγωνος Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
- Exodus 36:16 τετράγωνος He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
- 1 Kings 7:42 τετράγωνος and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;
- Ezekiel 41:21 τετράγωνος As for the temple, the door-posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance [of it] was as the appearance [of the temple].
- Ezekiel 43:16 τετράγωνος The altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it.
- Ezekiel 45:2 τετράγωνος Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred [in length] by five hundred [in breadth], square round about; and fifty cubits for the suburbs of it round about.
- Ezekiel 48:20 τετράγωνος All the offering shall be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you shall offer the holy offering four-square, with the possession of the city.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5068) 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.
