four

Greek Adjective

τέσσαρες (and Ion. and late -ερεν, and late accusative -εν; see WH, App., 150; M, Pr., 36, 45 f.), οἱ, αἱ, -αρα, τά, genitive, -ων, four: Mat.24:31, Mrk.2:3, Luk.2:37, Jhn.11:17 19:23, Act.10:11, Rev.4:4, 6, al (AS)

four

Greek Adjective

τέσσᾰρες, οἱ, αἱ, τέσσαρα, τά, genitive ων: dative τέσσαρσι (ν) [NT+5th c.BC+]; poetry τέτρᾰσι [Refs 8th c.BC+], and in late Prose, as [LXX+1st c.BC+], variant in [NT], and in good codices of [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—Attic dialect τέττᾰρες, τέττᾰρα, dative τέτταρσιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also τάρων (see. τάρες) for τεττάρω; Phocian dative τεττάροις [Refs 2nd c.BC+]:—Ionic dialect and later Gr. τέσσερες, τέσσερα, [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc. (dative τέσσερσι [LXX+8th c.BC+]; since however τέσσερα(ς) and τεσσεράκοντα, apart from Ionic dialect, are not common in Papyri before 2nd c.AD, the LXX autographs probably had τέσσαρα(ς) and τεσσαράκοντ; the form τέσσερα(ς) is here due to avoidance by the copyists of the sequence ε-α-α:—Doric dialect τέτορες, τέτορα, [Refs 8th c.BC+] —Epic dialect (probably _Aeolic dialect_) πίσῠρες [ῐ] [Refs 8th c.BC+]; genitive πισύρων [Refs 5th c.AD+]; dative πισύρεσσι, πισύροισι, -ῃσι, -αις, [Refs 4th c.AD+]: Aeolic dialect also πέσῠρες, neuter πέσῠρα [Refs]; and πέσσῠρες, πέσσῠρα, [Refs 5th c.AD+]:—Boeotian dialect πέττᾰρες, α (which see):—four, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; διὰ τεττάρων the musical interval of the fourth, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ τέσσαρα the four simple bodies of Empedocles, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; the four kinds of quality or four Aristotelian senses of ποιόν, [Refs]; the four cardinal principles of Epicurus (compare τετραφάρμακος), [Refs 1st c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit catvā´ras (accusative catúras), Latin quattuor, Lithuanian keturì, etc: I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+] q[uglide]et[uglide]or.)

Greek

Adjective

four; four; a plural number