noun · feminine
dekapolias
Strong’sG1179
Decapolis
stem dekapoli-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Δεκά-πολις, -εως, ὴ
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1179 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
district with ten cities, Decapolis, NT+1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | dekapolias | dekapoliais |
| object accusative | dekapolian | dekapoliain |
| direct address vocative | dekapoliar | dekapoliair |
| of, belonging to genitive | dekapoliau2×Δεκαπόλεως | dekapoliaiu |
| to, for dative | dekapolia1×Δεκαπόλει | dekapoliai |
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
dekapolia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
dekapoliau“Decapolis”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Matthew 4:25… ochlois pollois apo tau Galilaiau kai Dekapoliau kai Hierosolumeiu kai Ioudaiau kai peran …… Him, having come from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
Mark 7:31… tau Galilaiau ana mesem teiu horeiu Dekapoliau.… and into the region of the Decapolis.
dekapolia“Decapolis”to, fordative singular1×
Mark 5:20… aperchata kai archeta kērussarō en ta Dekapolia hoseim poiata auto tos Iēsus, kai …… and began to proclaim throughout the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for …