Lexicon
τριάκοντα
triakonta
G5144
G:A-NUI Greek

thirty

11
Occurrences
5
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Greek
Language

triakonta marks a count of thirty, used for yields, payments, ages, distances, and years in the supplied verses.

The attested use marks a fixed numerical count in varied quantified settings: fruit yield, money, age or duration, travel distance, and a stated interval of years. The same numerical value is maintained across these contexts rather than showing separate lexical meanings.

Senses in use

  1. A fixed numerical count in quantified contexts · dominant

    In Matthew 13:8 and Mark 4:8, the APB renders the fruit produced from good soil in a sequence including “thirty and sixty and a hundred.” In Matthew 26:15 and Matthew 27:3, it renders an amount of money as “thirty pieces of money”; John 5:5 gives “thirty-eight years,” while John 6:19 gives a travel estimate of “twenty-five or thirty stadia.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB consistently presents the numerical value as “thirty,” whether in fruit totals, money, years, age, or distance. Its surrounding English identifies the verse-level quantity rather than supplying a separate definition for the term.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture