Lexical Definition

‎τέσσαρες‎ téssares (tes'-sar-es) four ^G:A
a plural number

four.

Abbott-Smith

τέσσαρες (and Ion. and late -ερες, and late acc -ες; v. WH, App., 150; M, Pr., 36, 45 f.), οἱ, αἱ, -αρα, τά, gen., -ων,
four: Mt 24:31, Mk 2:3, Lk 2:37, Jo 11:17 19:23, Ac 10:11, Re 4:4, 6, al

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

τέσσαρες, 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-.)

_{LSJ Scripture Refs: Acts.12.4 ☩ LXX.Judg.9.34 ☩ Acts.11.5}