adjective
dekatas
Strong’sG1181
a tenth part, a tithe
stem dekat-4 times in the New Testament2 of 26 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.
δεκάτη, -ης, ἡ prop. fem. (sc. μέρος) of δέκατος, -η, -ον,
[in LXX for מַעֲשֵׂר: Ge 14:20, Ne 12:44, et al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1181 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddek-at'-ay
a tenth, i.e. as a percentage or (technically) tithe
Fromfeminine of G1182;
King Jamestenth (part), tithe.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Refs 4th c.AD+ δέκοτος Refs 5th c.BC+, also Aeolic dialect in Refs, η, ον: (δέκα):— tenth, Ἠώς Refs 8th c.BC+; as a round number, Refs 8th c.BC+
II δεκάτη (i.e. μερίς), ἡ, tenth part, tithe, τᾶς δεκάτας δεκάταν Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ ἐκ τῆς δ. the produce of the tenth, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 δεκάτη (i.e. ἡμέρα), ἡ, the tenth day, Refs 8th c.BC+
II.2.b δ. προτέρα· ἡ πρὸ εἰκάδος, ὡς ὑστέρα· ἡ μετ᾽ εἰκάδα, Refs 5th c.AD+
II.3 festival on the tenth day after birth, when the child has a name given it, τὴν δ. θύειν to give a naming-day feast, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.4 δεκάτα· τάξις, ἄθροισμα, καὶ ἡ τῶν εἴκοσιν ἁρμάτων τάξις, Refs 5th c.AD+
II.5 δέκατον, τό, tenth part, LXX
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | dekatos | dekatas | dekatem | dekatois | dekatais | dekateim |
| object accusative | dekaton | dekatan2×δεκάτην | dekatoin | dekatain2×δεκάτας | ||
| direct address vocative | dekator | dekatar | dekatoir | dekatair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | dekatou | dekatau | dekateu | dekatoiu | dekataiu | dekateiu |
| to, for dative | dekato | dekata | dekate | dekatoi | dekatai | dekatei |
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
dekat 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
dekatan“tenth”objectaccusative singular2×
Hebrews 7:2ho kai dekatan apo panteiu merizata Abraam, prōtem men …and Abraham apportioned to him a tenth of everything. First, his name means …
Hebrews 7:4Theōravōr de pēlikos houtos ho dekatan Abraam dōata ek teiu akrothinieiu tos …… the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder.
dekatain“tithes”objectaccusative plural2×
Hebrews 7:8“tithes”kai hōde men dekatain apothnēskarōntois anthrōpois labalō, ekei de marturorōntos …… the Levites, mortal men collect the tenth; but in the …
Hebrews 7:9“tithes”… legara, dia Abraam kai Levios tos dekatain labarōntos dekatotē,… to speak, Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham.