Word Summary
dekapente: eighteen
Original Word: δεκαπέντεTransliteration: dekapente
Phonetic Spelling: (dek-ap-en'-teh)
Part of Speech: Indeclinable Numeral (Adjective)
Short Definition: eighteen
Meaning: eighteen
Strong's Concordance
fifteen.
From deka and pente; ten and five, i.e. Fifteen -- fifteen.
see GREEK deka
see GREEK pente
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1178: δεκαπέντεδεκαπέντε, for the earlier
πεντεκαίδεκα,
fifteen:
John 11:18;
Acts 27:28;
Galatians 1:18; (
Genesis 7:20 Ald.,
Complutensian;
Exodus 27:15; 1 Macc. 10:40;
Polybius 3, 56, 3 var.;
Diodorus 2, 13;
Plutarch, Dion 38, 1; others; cf.
δεκαδύο).