τετρακισχίλιοι
four thousand
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
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G5070 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Mark. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Mark
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.
τετρακισχιλιοι — transliterated tetrakischílioi — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “four thousand.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Its uses concentrate in Matthew (40% of all occurrences). It first appears in Matthew 15:38. From the same root come 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 G5070 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
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 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 80%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 20%
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: Four thousand 5×
- American Standard Version: Four thousand 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Four thousand 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: The 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5070 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5070 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5070 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5070 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
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.
- four thousand
Word origin
Derived from τεσσαρες (téssares) (G5064) — four.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G5070 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| τετρακισχίλιοι tetrakischílioi | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 15:38 | 2 |
| τετρακισχιλίους tetrakischilíous | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 8:20 | 2 |
| τετρακισχιλίων tetrakischilíōn | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 16:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5070, 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
- τετραγωνος tetrágōnos G5068 square
- τετραδιον tetrádion G5069 quaternion
- 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 τετρακισχιλιοι appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 7 verses in 3 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 7
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Chronicles 12:27 τετρακισχίλιοι
- Job 42:12 τετρακισχίλιοι
- Ezekiel 48:16 τετρακισχίλιοι
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5070) 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.
- 1 Chronicles 12:27 τετρακισχίλιοι Jehoiada was the leader of [the house of] Aaron; and with him were three thousand and seven hundred,
- Job 42:12 τετρακισχίλιοι So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
- Ezekiel 48:16 τετρακισχίλιοι These shall be the measures of it: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
- Ezekiel 48:30 τετρακισχίλιοι These are the exits of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure;
- Ezekiel 48:32 τετρακισχίλιοι At the east side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.
- Ezekiel 48:33 τετρακισχίλιοι At the south side four thousand and five hundred [reeds] by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
- Ezekiel 48:34 τετρακισχίλιοι At the west side four thousand and five hundred [reeds], with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5070) 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.