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Δεκάπολις

Dekápolis · G1179 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Decapolis

    A league of ten cities in a region east of the Jordan

    Examples

    Matthew 4:25 Large crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.

    Mark 5:20 And he went away and began to proclaim in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.

    Mark 7:31 Again He left the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, within the region of Decapolis.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

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2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Decapolis93.460
The proper name of the league of ten cities east of the Jordan, as of the crowds who follow Jesus from Galilee and the Decapolis in Matthew 4:25 and the healed man proclaiming what Jesus had done for him throughout the Decapolis in Mark 5:20.
Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

δέκα déka · G1176 · ten · 27×δεκατέσσαρες dekatéssares · G1180 · fourteen · 5×ἀποδεκατόω apodekatóō · G586 · to give a tenth, to tithe, to collect tithes · 4×δεκάτη dekátē · G1181 · a tenth, i.e. as a percentage or tithe · 4×δεκαπέντε dekapénte · G1178 · fifteen · 3×ΔεκάπολιςDekápolis · G1179δέκατος dékatos · G1182 · tenth, tenth part · 3×δεκατόω dekatóō · G1183 · to collect tithes, to exact tithes from, to give a tenth · 2×δεκαδύο dekadýo · G1177 · two and ten, i.e. twelve · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Δεκαπολισεως, ἡ, Decapolis (regiodecapolitana, Pliny, h. n. 5, 16, 17), i. e. a region…
Δεκαπολισεως, ἡ, Decapolis (regiodecapolitana, Pliny, h. n. 5, 16, 17), i. e. a region embracing ten cities. This name is borne by a district of the tribe of Manasseh beyond the Jordan and bordering upon Syria, embracing ten principal cities with smaller towns also scattered in among them. But the ancient geographers vary in their enumeration of these ten cities. Pliny, the passage cited reckons Damascus among them, which Josephus seems to have excluded, calling Scythopolis μεγίστην τῆς Δεκαπόλεως, b. j. 3, 9, 7. All seem to agree in this, that Gadara, Hippo, Pella and Scythopolis were of the number. Cf. Winers RWB under the word Decapolis; Vaihinger in Herzog 3:325f; Riehm, HWB, 266f; (BB. DD., under the word): Mt 4:25; Mk 5:20; Mk 7:31.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Places3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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