adjective
dekatessares
Strong’sG1180
fourteen
stem dekatessare-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
† δεκατέσσαρες, -ων, oἱ, αἱ, -α, τά,
[in LXX: Ge 31:41, To 8:19, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1180 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
indeclinable, ten, Refs 8th c.BC+the Ten, Refs 5th c.BC+; also οἱ δ. the Attic dialect Orators, Refs 2nd c.AD+; τὰ δέκα [ἔτη] ἀφ᾽ ἥβης those who are ten years past Refs 5th c.BC+; δ. ἄνδρες, = Latin decemviri, Refs 2nd c.AD+ δεκᾰ-είς, NT+4th c.BC+; Thess. δεκαπέμπε Refs 1st c.BC+
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 | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares3×δεκατέσσαρες | dekatessares |
| object accusative | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares | ||
| direct address vocative | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares2×δεκατεσσάρων |
| to, for dative | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares | dekatessares |
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
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
dekatessares“fourteen”subjectnominative plural3×
Matthew 1:17… geneais apo Abraam heōs David geneais dekatessares, kai apo David heōs tau metoikesiau …In all, then, there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen …
Matthew 1:17… David heōs tau metoikesiau Babulōnau geneais dekatessares, kai apo tau metoikesiau Babulōnau heōs …… to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.
Matthew 1:17… metoikesiau Babulōnau heōs tou christou geneais dekatessares.… fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to …
dekatessares“fourteen”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
2 Corinthians 12:2oidamē anthrōpon en Christo pro eteiu dekatessares eite en sōme ouk oidamē, eite …… know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to …
Galatians 2:1Epeita dia dekatessares eteiu palin anabainama eis Hierosolumeim meta …Fourteen years later I went up again …