τετρακόσιοιtetrakósioi
four hundred
Greek (New Testament) · G5071
Meanings
(fr. τετράκις, and the term -όσιος indicating one hundred; [cf. G. Meyer, Gr. Gram. § 16 f.]), four hundred: Acts v. 36; vii. 6; xiii. 20; Gal. iii. 17. [(Hdt., Thuc., Xen., al.)]*
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Acts 5:36 Some time ago there was that fellow Theudas, who pretended to be someone great. About 400 others joined him, but he was killed, and all his followers went their various ways. The whole movement came to nothing.
- Acts 7:6 God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign land, where they would be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.
- Acts 13:20 All this took about 450 years. “After that, God gave them judges to rule until the time of Samuel the prophet.
- Galatians 3:17 This is what I am trying to say: The agreement God made with Abraham could not be canceled 430 years later when God gave the law to Moses. God would be breaking his promise.
Source: J. H. Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain.