Word

ἐννενηκονταεννέα

ennenēkontaennéa · G1768 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

ninety-nine

Cardinal number, where there are ninety-nine instances of a countable entity

Examples
Matthew 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 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

πλανάωto deceive, to lead astray 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

καταλείπωto leave, to leave behind 1
ἀφίημιto leave, to forgive, to let 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐπίon 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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Ninety60.32: This compound numeral denotes ninety-nine, used of the shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine sheep to seek the one that is lost, in both Matthew's and Luke's versions of the parable — "will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains, and go and search for the one that is lost?" (Matthew 18:12), and "does not leave the other ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?" (Luke 15:4).

Word family 3 words

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

ἐννέα ennéa · G1767 · nine · 5×ἔννατος énnatos · G1766 · ninth · 10×ἐννενηκονταεννέαennenēkontaennéa · G1768

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon see ἐννενηκοντα. G1768 — ἐννενηκονταεννέα , more correctly ἐνενήκοντα ἐννέα (i. e.…

see ἐννενηκοντα.
G1768 — ἐννενηκονταεννέα
, more correctly ἐνενήκοντα ἐννέα (i. e. written separately, and the first word with a single nu ν, as by L T Tr WH; cf. (under Nu; Tdf. Proleg., p. 80; WHs Appendix, p. 148); Winers Grammar, 43f; Bornemann, Scholia ad Luc., p. 95), ninety-nine: Mt 18:12; Lk 15:4, Lk 15:7.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

One, Two, Three, Etc. [Cardinals]4 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.

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