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adjective

dekapente

Greekδεκαπέντε (dekapente)

Strong’sG1178

fifteen

stem dekapente-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books0 of 26 forms occur

Translated as

fifteenfifteen.

What it means

δεκα-πέντε

[in LXX: Ex 27:15, I Mac 10:40, al.;]

late form of πεντεκαίδεκα, fifteen: Jo 11:18, Ac 27:5, WH, mg., ib. 28, Ga 1:18.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1178 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddek-ap-en'-teh

ten and five, i.e. fifteen

Fromfrom G1176 and G4002;

King Jamesfifteen.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence casemasculine singularfeminine singularneuter singularmasculine pluralfeminine pluralneuter plural
subject nominativedekapentedekapentedekapentedekapentedekapentedekapente
object accusativedekapentedekapentedekapentedekapente
direct address vocativedekapentedekapentedekapentedekapente
of, belonging to genitivedekapentedekapentedekapentedekapentedekapentedekapente
to, for dativedekapentedekapentedekapentedekapentedekapentedekapente

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
dekapentestem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

dekapente

John 11:18“fifteen.”ate de tas Bēthanias engus teiu Hierosolumeiu hōs apo stadioiu dekapente.Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, a little less than two miles away,

Acts 27:28“fifteen”kai bolizaratois heuriskala orguiain eikosi, brachuem de diistanaratois kai palin bolizaratois heuriskala orguiain dekapente;They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.

Galatians 1:18“fifteen”Epeita meta eteim treis anerchama eis Hierosolumeim historara Kēfon, kai epimenama pros auton hēmerain dekapente;Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days.