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δεκατέσσαρες

fourteen

G1180 Strong's Greek
dekatéssares Transliteration
/dek-at-es'-sar-es/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 5 appearances

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About this entry

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δεκατεσσαρες (dekatéssares) is a Greek noun most often rendered “fourteen.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 1:17. It clusters with δεκα, δακτυλος and δεκαδυο under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
fourteen
Modern gloss
fourteen
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G1180 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

3
distinct verses
The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
3 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 1:17
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 1:17.
Galatians 2:1
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Galatians 2:1.
#1,648
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 1 · 33%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 2 · 67%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.

  • Pauline corpus 2 verses · 67%
  • Gospels 1 verse · 33%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Are fourteen 3×, Fourteen 2×
  • American Standard Version: Fourteen 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Fourteen 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Generations 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1180 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Are fourteen” 3×
  • “Fourteen” 2×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G1180 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Fourteen” 3×

Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G1180 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Fourteen” 5×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G1180 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Generations” 1×

Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.


Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. fourteen

Word origin

Derived from δεκα (déka) (G1176) — ten.

Part of speech: Noun

From G1176 and G5064 ; ten and four that is fourteen : - fourteen.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms G1180 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
δεκατέσσαρες dekatéssares Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Feminine Matthew 1:17 3
δεκατεσσάρων dekatessárōn Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 2 Corinthians 12:2 2

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1180, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

Shares the same root

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

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