Word Study · Strong's G1179 · Greek
Δεκάπολις
Dekapolis
dek-ap'-ol-is
Strong's 1890 spelling: Dekápolis
“the ten-city region”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
the ten-city region; the Decapolis, a district in Syria
Rendered in the KJV as
Decapolis.
- 3occurrencesin the New Testament
- 2 of 27New Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 3 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- Δεκαπόλει1
- Δεκαπόλεως1
- Δεκαπόλεως.1
How it is rendered · 3
- [the] Decapolis1
- Decapolis1
- of [the] Decapolis.1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1
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- N-GSF-L · 2
- N-DSF-L · 1
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Mark2 occurrences
- Mark 5:20Δεκαπόλειdekapoleinoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singularSo the man went away and began to proclaim throughout the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And everyone was amazed.here: Decapolis
- Mark 7:31Δεκαπόλεως.dekapoleōsnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singularThen Jesus left the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis.here: of [the] Decapolis.