This adjective means 'on the fourth day' or describes someone four days deceased. In John 11:39, Martha protests when Jesus commands opening Lazarus' tomb: 'by now he is four days dead.' The term emphasizes the advanced state of decay—beyond any hope of resuscitation. In Jewish reckoning, the soul was thought to linger for three days; the fourth day marked hopeless death. The cross-linguistic evidence varies between temporal ('four days,' 'de cuatro días') and ordinal ('fourth') rendering, but all emphasize the passage of time establishing death's certainty.