adjective
pentēkonta
Greekπεντήκοντα (pentēkonta)
Strong’sG4004
fifty
stem pentēkont-7 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books0 of 26 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
πεντήκοντα, 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 G4004 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpen-tay'-kon-tah
fifty
Frommultiplicative of G4002;
King Jamesfifty.
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 case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta |
| object accusative | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | ||
| direct address vocative | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta |
| to, for dative | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta | pentēkonta |
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
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
pentēkonta6×
Mark 6:40“fifties”kai anapiptala prasiais prasiais kata hekaton kai kata pentēkonta.So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.
Luke 7:41“fifty”duo chreofeiletois ale danisto tino; tos henos ofeilate dēnarieim pentakosioi, tos de heteros pentēkonta.“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
Luke 9:14“fifty”ale gar hōsei anērois pentakischilioi. legata de pros toin mathētoin autou; Kataklinavar autoin klisiain hōsei ana pentēkonta.(There were about five thousand men.) He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”
Luke 16:6“fifty”tos de legata; Hekaton batoin elaieu; tos de legata auto; Dechesar su teim grammeim kai kathizaratos tacheōs grafasar pentēkonta.‘A hundred measures of olive oil,’ he answered. ‘Take your bill,’ said the manager, ‘sit down quickly, and write fifty.’
John 21:11“fifty”anabainata oun Simōnos Petros kai helkata tem diktuem eis tan gēan mestem ichthoiu megoiu hekaton pentēkonta treis; kai tosoutoiu arōtoiu ouk schizita tem diktuem.So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many, the net was not torn.
Acts 13:20“fifty”hōs etei tetrakosioi kai pentēkonta. kai meta houteim dōata kritoin heōs Samouēl tou profētou.All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.
Pentēkonta1×
John 8:57“fifty”legala oun tois Ioudaiois pros auton; Pentēkonta eteim oupō echasō kai Abraam horasē?Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?”