εἴκοσι
eíkosi · G1501 · Greek · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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twenty
Cardinal number, where there are twenty instances of a countable entity
ExamplesLuke 14:31 “Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to face the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
John 6:19 Then, when they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat; and they were frightened.
Acts 27:28 And they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- עֶשְׂרִים ʻesrîym · H6242 · ten, twenty
- Hebrew עֶשְׂרִים is the direct numerical equivalent of Greek εἴκοσι, both denoting the cardinal number twenty.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Twenty60.25
- In Luke 14:31, a king considers whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to face one coming against him with twenty thousand, this numeral naming the specific quantity twenty, as also in Acts 27:28's sounding of twenty fathoms and Revelation 4:4's twenty-four elders.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (or εἴκοσιν; Tdf. uses εἴκοσι ten times before a consonant, and says εἴκοσι "etiam ante…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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