ἐννέα
ennéa · G1767 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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nine
Cardinal number, where there are nine instances of a countable entity
ExamplesMatthew 18:12 “What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains, and go and search for the one that is lost?
Matthew 18:13 “And if it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray.
Luke 15:4 “What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the other ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἔπωto say 1
- ἀποκρίνομαιto answer 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ποῦwhere? 1
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
- תֵּשַׁע têshaʻ · H8672 · nine, ninety
- Hebrew תֵּשַׁע and Greek ἐννέα are direct numerical equivalents, both denoting the cardinal number nine in their respective languages.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Nine60.18
- This cardinal numeral denotes the number nine, used of the ninety-nine sheep left behind in Jesus' parable, described elsewhere in relation to the nine unnamed ones, and directly of the nine lepers who failed to return to give thanks — "Were there not ten cleansed? But the nine—where are they?" (Luke 17:17).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon οἱ, αἱ, τά (from Homer down), nine: Lk 17:17; see the following word.
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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