◄ 5069. tetradion ►
Strong's Concordance tetradion: a group of four, a quaternion (a guard of four soldiers) Original Word: τετράδιον, ου, τό Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: tetradion Phonetic Spelling: (tet-rad'-ee-on) Short Definition: a group of four soldiers Definition: a quaternion, a group of four soldiers. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5069: τετράδιον τετράδιον, τετραδιου, τό (τετράς, the number four), a quarternion (τό ἐκ τεσσάρων συνεστος, Suidas): τῶν στρατιωτῶν, a guard consisting of four soldiers (for among the Romans this was the usual number of the guard to which the custody of captives and prisons was intrusted; two soldiers were confined with the prisoner and two kept guard outside), Acts 12:4, where the four quaternions mentioned were on guard one at a time during each of the four watches. (Philo in Flacc. § 13 i. e. Mang. edition vol. ii, p. 533, 25.) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance quaternion, squad of four soldiers Neuter of a presumed derivative of tetras (a tetrad; from tessares); a quaternion or squad (picket) of four Roman soldiers -- quaternion. see GREEK tessares Forms and Transliterations τετραδιοις τετραδίοις τετράδραχμον τετρακισμύριοι τετριμένος τρήσει tetradiois tetradíois Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 5069 1 Occurrence τετραδίοις — 1 Occ. Acts 12:4 N-DNP GRK: παραδοὺς τέσσαρσιν τετραδίοις στρατιωτῶν φυλάσσειν NAS: him to four squads of soldiers KJV: [him] to four quaternions of soldiers INT: having delivered to four sets of four soldiers to guard 1 Occurrence