adjective
pente
Strong’sG4002
five
stem pente-38 times in the New Testamentin 7 of 27 books0 of 26 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Five, the cardinal number 1234.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
πέντε, indecl., οἱ, αἱ, τά,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4002 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpen'-teh
"five"
Froma primary number;
King Jamesfive.
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
Aeolic dialect πέμπε (which see), οἱ, αἱ, τά, indeclinable (declined in Aeolic dialect), five, Refs 8th c.BC+; τὰ πέντε κρατήσας having won the πένταθλον, Refs 5th c.BC+ penq[uglide]e, cf. Sanskrit páñca, Lithuanian penki, etc. 'five'.)
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 | pente | pente | pente | pente | pente | pente |
| object accusative | pente | pente | pente | pente | ||
| direct address vocative | pente | pente | pente | pente | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | pente | pente | pente | pente | pente | pente |
| to, for dative | pente | pente | pente | pente | pente | pente |
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.
38 occurrences, every one of them listed
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Matthew 14:17… auto; Ouk echanō hōde ei mē pente artoin kai duo ichthoin.“We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish …
Matthew 14:19… anaklinira epi tou chortou, labarantos toin pente artoin kai toin duo ichthoin, anableparantos …… down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and …
Matthew 16:9oupō noavō, oude mnēmoneuavō toin pente artoin toiu pentakischilioi kai posoin kofinoin …… understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and …
Matthew 25:2pente de ek autaiu ale mōrais kai …Five of them were foolish, and five …
Matthew 25:2… de ek autaiu ale mōrais kai pente fronimais.Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
Matthew 25:15kai ho men dōata pente talanteim ho de duo ho de …To one he gave five talents, to another two talents, and …
Matthew 25:16poreuirantos tos teim pente talanteim labarantos ergazeta en autei kai …The servant who had received the five talents went at once and put …
Matthew 25:16… ergazeta en autei kai kerdainata alloseim pente;… put them to work and gained five more.
Matthew 25:20kai prosercharantos tos teim pente talanteim labarantos prosferata alloseim pente talanteim …The servant who had received the five talents came and presented five more …
Matthew 25:20… teim pente talanteim labarantos prosferata alloseim pente talanteim legarōntos; Kurior, pente talanteim mi …… he said, ‘you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five …
Matthew 25:20… prosferata alloseim pente talanteim legarōntos; Kurior, pente talanteim mi paradōasa; ide alloseim pente …… the five talents came and presented five more. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted …
Matthew 25:20… pente talanteim mi paradōasa; ide alloseim pente talanteim kerdainama.… five talents. See, I have gained five more.’
Mark 6:41kai labarantos toin pente artoin kai toin duo ichthoin anableparantos …Taking the five loaves and the two fish and …
Mark 8:19hote toin pente artoin klama eis toin pentakischilioi, posoin …When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how …
Luke 1:24… gunaikas autou; kai perikrubate heautan mēnoin pente, legarōntas… wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. She declared,
Luke 9:13… Ouk alō ni polloterem ē artois pente kai ichthois duo, ei mēti poreuirantois …… something to eat.” “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish …
Luke 9:16labarantos de toin pente artoin kai toin duo ichthoin anableparantos …Taking the five loaves and the two fish and …
Luke 12:6ouchi pente strouthieim pōlolō assarieiu duo? kai henem …Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet …
Luke 12:52eli gar apo tou nun pente en heno oiko diamerizorēntois, treis epi …From now on, five in one household will be divided …
Luke 14:19kai heteros legata; Zeugeim bouoiu agorazama pente kai poreuomō dokimazara auteim; erōtamō sin, …Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am …
Luke 16:28echamō gar pente adelfoin, hopōs diamarturoteiō autoi, hina mē …for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so …
Luke 19:18… legarōntos; Tas mnas su, kurior, poiata pente mnain.… said, ‘Master, your mina has made five minas.’
Luke 19:19… kai houto; Kai sis epanō genosōr pente polaiu.… said, ‘You shall have authority over five cities.’
John 4:18pente gar androin echasa, kai nun hon …In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now …
John 5:2… probatika kolumbēthras tas epilegorōntas Hebraisti Bēthesda, pente stoain echarōntas;… the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is …
John 6:9Atō paidariem hōde hos echatō pente artoin krithinoin kai duo opsarieim; alla …“Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish …
John 6:13… gemizala dōdeka kofinoin klasmeiu ek toiu pente artoiu toiu krithinoiu heim perisseuala toi …… baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those …
John 6:19“*”elaunarēntois oun hōs stadioin eikosi pente ē triakonta theōralō ton Iēsun peripatarōnton …… they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the …
Acts 4:4… tos arithmos toiu androiu hōs chiliadais pente.… number of men grew to about five thousand.
Acts 7:14“*”… pantan tan sungeneian en psuchai hebdomēkonta pente,… Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.
Acts 19:19… timain autaiu kai heuriskala argurieu muriadain pente.… was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.
Acts 20:6… autoin eis tan Trōadan achri hēmeraiu pente, hou diatribana hēmerain hepta.… Bread, we sailed from Philippi, and five days later we rejoined them in …
Acts 24:1Meta de pente hēmerain katabainata tos archierevos Hananios meta …Five days later the high priest Ananias …
1 Corinthians 14:19alla en ekklēsa thelamō pente logoin to nouo mu lalara, hina …… the church, I would rather speak five coherent words to instruct others than …
Revelation 9:5… apoktenaleia autoin, alla hina basanizili mēnoin pente; kai tos basanismos autaiu hōs basanismos …… but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like …
Revelation 9:10… exousias autaiu adikara toin anthrōpoin mēnoin pente.… the power to injure people for five months.
Revelation 17:10tois pente piptala, tos henos atō, tos allosos …There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the …
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Mark 6:38… artoin? hupagavōr horavar. kai gnōskarantois legalō; Pente, kai duo ichthoin.… them. And after checking, they said, “Five — and two fish.”