τετρᾰκόσι-οι G5071
Four hundred; the cardinal number 400, used in historical and chronological references.
Tetrakosioi ('four hundred') appears exclusively in historical recollections within Acts and Galatians. In Acts 5:36, Gamaliel recalls a rebel who drew about four hundred followers before being scattered. Acts 7:6 cites God's prophecy to Abraham that his descendants would be enslaved for four hundred years, and Acts 13:20 references approximately four hundred and fifty years of judges. Paul anchors his argument about the priority of the Abrahamic promise in Galatians 3:17 by noting the law came four hundred and thirty years later. Every occurrence anchors a theological or rhetorical point in concrete historical duration or enumeration.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Four hundred — the cardinal number used in historical and chronological references within the New Testament. Acts 5:36 counts roughly four hundred followers of the rebel Theudas. Acts 7:6 recalls the four-hundred-year sojourn prophesied to Abraham (cf. Gen 15:13). Acts 13:20 marks the period of the judges. Galatians 3:17 uses 'four hundred and thirty years' to establish the chronological priority of promise over law. The translations are straightforwardly numeric (Spanish 'cuatrocientos,' German 'vierhundert'), with the French anomaly 'cinq-cents' (five hundred) likely reflecting a variant or error in the gloss data rather than a genuine semantic difference. 4×
AR["أربَعِ-مائَةٍ", "أَربَعِمِئَةٍ", "أَرْبَعَ-مِئَةٍ", "أَرْبَعِمِئَةٍ"]·ben["চারশ", "চারশত", "চারশো"]·DE["vierhundert", "τετρακοσίοις", "τετρακοσίων", "τετρακόσια"]·EN["four-hundred"]·FR["cinq-cents", "τετρακόσια"]·heb["אַרְבַּע-מֵאוֹת"]·HI["चअर-सौ", "चार-सौ", "जो"]·ID["empat-ratus", "empat-ratus;"]·IT["quattrocento", "tetrakosia"]·jav["sekawan-atus", "sekawan-atus;"]·KO["마치", "사백", "사백오십"]·PT["quatrocentos"]·RU["четыреста", "четырёхсот"]·ES["cuatrocientos"]·SW["mia-nne", "miaka-mia-nne"]·TR["dört-yüz", "dörtyüz"]·urd["چار-سو"]
Related Senses
H3605 1. all, every, whole (5352×)H0259 1. one (cardinal numeral) (940×)H8147 1. cardinal number two (666×)G3956 1. all (collective plural) (616×)H3967 1. cardinal numeral hundred (550×)H1419a 1. great, large (general quality) (486×)H7969 1. cardinal number three (431×)H0505 1. cardinal number thousand (427×)H7651 1. seven (cardinal number) (393×)G1520 1. cardinal number one (339×)H6240 1. ten (cardinal number) (334×)H6242 1. twenty (cardinal number) (315×)H2568 1. cardinal number five (309×)H0702 1. four (cardinal number) (277×)G3956 2. every, each (distributive) (227×)H8337 1. six (cardinal number) (215×)G3956 3. all things, everything (substantive) (211×)G3956 4. (187×)H6235 1. ten (177×)G3173 1. great in size or extent (176×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
τετρᾰκόσι-οι, αι, α, Doric dialect τετρα-κάτιοι [κᾰ] Refs; poetry (once) tetrhkoϟsioi Refs:— four hundred, Refs 5th c.BC+ __II οἱ τ., at Athens, __II.1 the oligarchy established in Refs 5th c.BC+ __II.2 a more ancient Council, Refs 2nd c.AD+