King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G1177
Transliteration: dekadyo
Phonetic Spelling: (dek-ad-oo'-o)
Part of Speech: Indeclinable Numeral (Adjective)
Short Definition: twelve
Meaning: twelve
δεκαδύο, rare in the earlier writings, frequent in the later (see Passow, under the word δέκα (especially Sophocles Lexicon, under the word; cf. Winers Grammar, 23 (22); Lightfoot on Galatians 1:18)), and in the Sept.; equivalent to δώδεκα, twelve: Acts 19:7 and, in both places L T Tr WH δώδεκα; (Revelation 21:16 Tdf. editions 2, 7).
Word Summary
dekadyo: twelve
Original Word: δεκαδύοTransliteration: dekadyo
Phonetic Spelling: (dek-ad-oo'-o)
Part of Speech: Indeclinable Numeral (Adjective)
Short Definition: twelve
Meaning: twelve
Strong's Concordance
twelve. From deka and duo; two and ten, i.e. Twelve -- twelve.
see GREEK deka
see GREEK duo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1177: δεκαδύοδεκαδύο, rare in the earlier writings, frequent in the later (see Passow, under the word δέκα (especially Sophocles Lexicon, under the word; cf. Winers Grammar, 23 (22); Lightfoot on Galatians 1:18)), and in the Sept.; equivalent to δώδεκα, twelve: Acts 19:7 and
STRONGS NT 1177b: δεκαέξ [δεκαέξ, sixteen: Revelation 13:18 L marginal reading (the Sept., others.) STRONGS NT 1177a: δεκαοκτώ [δεκαοκτώ for δέκα καί ὀκτώ, eighteen: Tdf. in Luke 13:4, 11, but WH omits; L Tr brackets καί; cf. under the word καί, I. 1 b.