Fourth
τεταρταῖοςStrong’s G5066tetartaios
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Tetartaios is the Greek word usually translated “four days”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.”
Meaning
Usually translated “four days”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- four days 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 1
1 book in all.
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Greek dictionary
τεταρταῖος tetartaios · fourth
τεταρταῖος, -α, -ον (τέταρτος), [in LXX: 2Ki.3:4 A (רְבִיעִי) * ;] of or on the fourth day: τ. εἶναι (Hdt., τ. γενέσθαι), to be four days dead, Jhn.11:39.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fourth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOURTH, adjective
The ordinal of four; the next after the third.
All definitions and other forms of “fourth”
FOURTH, noun
In music, an interval composed of two tones and a semitone. Three full tones compose a triton, or fourth redundant.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.