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G1179 Δεκάπολις (Dekápolis)
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Δεκάπολις, εως, ἡ n.f. Decapolis

Strong's Definition

from 1176 and 4172; the ten-city region; the Decapolis, a district in Syria

KJV Usage: Decapolis

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

noun-name, f. | -εως

93.460 · Names of Persons and Places · Places

Decapolis a league of ten cities in a region east of the Jordan

MAT 4:25 · MRK 5:20 · MRK 7:31

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

Δεκά-πολις, -ews, 7), Decapolis (regio decapolitana, Plin. h. n. 5, 16.17), i. e. a region embracing ten cities. This name is borne by a district of the tribe of Manasseh beyond the Jordan and bordering upon Syria, embracing ten principal cities with smaller towns also scattered in among them. But the ancient geographers vary in their enumeration of these ten cities. Pliny 1. ὁ. reckons Damascus among them,.which Josephus seems to have excluded, calling Seythopolis μεγίστην τῆς δεκαπόλεως, b. 1. 8, 9, 7. All seem to agree in this, that Gadara, Hippo, Pella and Seythopolis were of the number. Cf. Win. RWB. 5. ν. Decapolis; Vaihinger in Herzog iii. 325 sq.; Riehm, HWB. 266 sq.; [BB.DD.s. v.]: Mt. iv. 25; Mk. v. 20; vii. 81.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

Δεκάπολις Dekapolis 3x

Decapolis, a district of Palestine beyond Jordan, Mk. 5:20; 7:31; Mt. 4:25*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

Δεκά-πολις, -εως, ὴ Decapolis, a region east of the Jordan con­taining ten cities: Mt 4:25, Mk 5:20 7:31.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

Δεκάπολις. Cagnat III. 10578 (A.b. 134) ᾿Αγαθάνγελος ᾿Αβιληνὸς τῆς Δεκαπόλεος : the editor distinguishes this Abila from A. Lysaniae, near Damascus. See also G. A. Smith (£4z 1051). For the formation of the name cf. Τρικωμία (as in P Par 473—c. B.C. 153), Δικωμία (BGU IV. 120871—B.¢. 27), and πενταφυλία (Chrest. 1. 77°—A.D. 149).

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

Δεκάπολις (Dekapolis) — Decapolis. δεκᾰ-πολις, εως, ἡ, district with ten cities, Decapolis, [NT+1st c.AD+]

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