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Greek Word Study
G5062
τεσσαράκοντα
tessarákonta
G5062 · Greek
Forty. Tessarákonta. Forty days in the wilderness, forty years in the desert: God uses this number to mark seasons of testing and formation. Endure the forty. Something is being built in you.
Verses with this word
John 2:20
“Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?”
Matthew 4:2
“And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.”
Mark 1:13
“And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered...”
Luke 4:2
“Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hung...”
Acts 1:3
“To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and spe...”