Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
ten
Usage: δέκα, οἱ, αἱ, τά, ten: Mat.20:24, al.; θλίψις ἡμερῶν δ., i.e. of brief duration: Rev.2:10.† δεκα-οκτώ, T for δέκα ὀκτώ, eighteen: Luk.13:4.† (AS)
Deka means “ten” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1176 — baalzebub in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1176 δέκα (deka) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. deka (dek'-ah) n. 1. ten [a primary numeral] It has 288 linked Bible usages across 36 books. Visible English usage signals include ten, years, cubits, men, and out. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
deka (dek'-ah) n. 1. ten [a primary numeral] KJV: (eight-)een, ten
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ten
Usage: δέκα, οἱ, αἱ, τά, ten: Mat.20:24, al.; θλίψις ἡμερῶν δ., i.e. of brief duration: Rev.2:10.† δεκα-οκτώ, T for δέκα ὀκτώ, eighteen: Luk.13:4.† (AS)
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Strong's G1176 (δέκα) appears 294 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
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24 indexed usages in New Testament.
236 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And God brought a trance upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled up the flesh instead thereof.
And Enosh lived after his begetting Kenan, seven hundred and fifteen years, and he begot sons and daughters.
And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.
26 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
2 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.
First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1176.
And God brought a trance upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled up the flesh instead thereof.
And Enosh lived after his begetting Kenan, seven hundred and fifteen years, and he begot sons and daughters.
And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.
Fifteen cubits upward was the water raised, and it covered all the high mountains.
And Abram having heard that Lot his nephew had been taken captive, numbered his own homeborn servants three hundred and eighteen, and pursued after them to Dan.
So Sarai the wife of Abram having taken Hagar the Egyptian her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, gave her to Abram her husband as a wife to him.
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I speak yet once? but if there should be found there ten? And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.
And the servant took ten camels of his master’s camels, and he took of all the goods of his master with him, and he arose and went into Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor.
And it came to pass when all the camels ceased drinking, that the man took golden earrings, each of a drachma weight, and he put two bracelets on her hands, their weight was ten pieces of gold.
And her brethren and her mother said, Let the virgin remain with us about ten days, and after that she shall depart.
But your father deceived me, and changed my wages for the ten lambs, yet God gave him not power to hurt me.
These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years among thy sheep, and thou didst falsely rate my wages for ten lambs.
milch camels, and their foals, thirty, forty kine, ten bulls, twenty asses, and ten colts.
And these are the generations of Jacob. And Joseph was seventeen years old, feeding the sheep of his father with his brethren, being young; with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father; and Joseph brought to Israel their father their evil reproach.
And the ten brethren of Joseph went down to buy corn out of Egypt.
And to his father he sent presents at the same rate, and ten asses, bearing some of all the good things of Egypt, and ten mules, bearing bread for his father for thy journey.
These are the sons of Zilpah, which Laban gave to his daughter Leah, who bore these to Jacob, sixteen souls.
These are the sons of Rachel, which she bore to Jacob; all the souls eighteen.
And Jacob survived seventeen years in the land of Egypt; and Jacob’s days of the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven years.
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his brethren, and all the family of his father; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.
And Joseph died, aged a hundred and ten years; and they prepared his corpse, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.
And thou shalt make the tabernacle, ten curtains of fine linen spun, and blue and purple, and scarlet spun with cherubs; thou shalt make them with work of a weaver.
Of ten cubits shalt thou make one post, and the breadth of one post of a cubit and a half.
And there shall be eight posts, and their sixteen silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post.
And in the breadth of the tabernacle toward the west curtains of fifty cubits, their pillars ten and their sockets ten.
And in the breadth of the tabernacle toward the south, curtains of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
And for the second side the height of the curtains shall be of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
And let the stones of the names of the children of Israel be twelve according to their names, engravings as of seals: let them be for the twelve tribes each according to the name.
And Moses was there before the Lord forty days, and forty nights; he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water; and he wrote upon the tables these words of the covenant, the ten sayings.
And they made ten curtains for the tabernacle;
And on the west side curtains of fifty cubits, their posts ten and their sockets ten.
When I afflict you with famine of bread, then ten women shall bake your loaves in one oven, and they shall render your loaves by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
And if it be from five years old to twenty, the valuation of a male shall be twenty didrachmas, and of a female ten didrachmas.
And if from sixty years old and upward, if it be a male, his valuation shall be fifteen didrachmas of silver, and if a female, ten didrachmas.
One golden censer of ten shekels full of incense.
One censer of ten golden shekels, full of incense.
One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense.
One golden censer of ten shekels full of incense.
One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense.
One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense.
One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense.
One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense.
One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense.
One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense.
One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense.
One golden censer of ten shekels, full of incense.
Ye shall not eat one day, nor two, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days;
And the people rose up all the day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered quails; he that gathered least, gathered ten measures; and they refreshed themselves round about the camp.
And they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides those that died on account of Korah.
And ye shall bring near whole burnt offerings, a sacrifice for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord, on the first day thirteen calves of the herd, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old; they shall be without blemish.
A tenth deal for every lamb, for the fourteen lambs.
And on the second day twelve calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without blemish.
On the third day eleven calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without blemish.
On the fourth day ten calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without spot.
On the fifth day nine calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without spot.
On the sixth day eight calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without blemish.
On the seventh day seven calves, two rams, fourteen lambs of a year old without blemish.
and persons, sixteen thousand.
And all the wrought gold, even the offering that they offered to the Lord, was sixteen thousand and seven hundred and fifty shekels from the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds.
And he announced to you his covenant, which he commanded you to keep, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.
And he wrote upon the tables according to the first writing the ten commandments, which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain out of the midst of the fire, and the Lord gave them to me.
And Shaaraim and Gederah, and its villages; fourteen cities, and their villages;
and Keilah, and Akiezi, and Kezib, and Bathesar, and Aelom: ten cities, and their villages;
and Carapha, and Cephar, and Ammoni, and Geba, twelve cities and their villages:
and Jebus (this is Jerusalem); and Gibeah, Jearim, thirteen cities, and their villages; this is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.
and Beth-lebaoth, and their fields, thirteen cities, and their villages.
And the lot came out for the children of Kohath; and the sons of Aaron, the priests the Levites, had by lot thirteen cities out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin.
And to the sons of Kohath that were left were given by lot ten cities, out of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh.
And the sons of Gershon had thirteen cities, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
All the cities of the sons of Aaron the priests, thirteen.
In all were given ten cities, and the suburbs of each belonging to them, to the families of the sons of Kohath that remained.
All the cities of Gershon according to their families were thirteen cities.
All these cities were given to the sons of Merari according to the families of them that were left out of the tribe of Levi; and their limits were the twelve cities.
and ten of the chiefs with him; there was one chief of every household out of all the tribes of Israel (the heads of families are the captains of thousands in Israel).
And it came to pass after these things that Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the Lord died, at the age of a hundred and ten years.
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
And Judah went up; and the Lord delivered the Canaanite and the Perizzite into their hands, and they smote them in Bezek to the number of ten thousand men.
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, a hundred and ten years old.
And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
And they smote Moab on that day about ten thousand men, every lusty person and every mighty man; and not a man escaped.
And Deborah sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and she said to him, Has not the Lord God of Israel commanded thee? and thou shalt depart to Mount Tabor, and shalt take with thyself ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun.
And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali out of Kedesh, and there went up at his feet ten thousand men, and Deborah went up with him.
And Deborah said to Barak, Rise up, for this is the day on which the Lord has delivered Sisera into thy hand, for the Lord shall go forth before thee: and Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
And Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord spoke to him: and it came to pass, as he feared the house of his father and the men of the city if he should do it by day, that he did it by night.
And now speak in the ears of the people, saying, Who is afraid and fearful? let him turn and depart from Mount Gilead: and there returned of the people twenty-two thousand, and ten thousand were left.
And Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their host was with them, about fifteen thousand, all that were left of all the host of the aliens; and they that fell were a hundred and twenty thousand men that drew the sword.
And they afflicted and bruised the children of Israel at that time eighteen years, all the children of Israel beyond Jordan in the land of the Amorite in Gilead.
And after him Elon of Zebulun judged Israel ten years.
And Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest; and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the year, and a change of raiment, and thy living.
Moreover we will take ten men for a hundred for all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred for a thousand, and a thousand for ten thousand, to take provision, to cause them to come to Gibeah of Benjamin, to do to it according to all the abomination, which they wrought in Israel.
And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel; and the fight was severe; and they knew not that evil was coming upon them.
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men: all these were men of might.
And they took to themselves wives, women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the second Ruth; and they dwelt there about ten years.
And Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye here; and they sat down.
And Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah: and she said to him, Here am I, my lord: and he said to her, What ails thee that thou weepest? and why dost thou not eat? and why does thy heart smite thee? am I not better to thee than ten children?
And the battle extended itself to every city in the Mount Ephraim.
And David sent ten young men, and he said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and ask him in my name how he is.
And it came to pass after about ten days, that the Lord smote Nabal, and he died.
And the king and all his house went out on foot: and the king left ten women of his concubines to keep the house.
brought ten embroidered beds (with double coverings), and ten caldrons, and earthenware, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and meal, and beans, and pulse,
And they said, Thou shalt not go out: for if we should indeed flee, they will not care for us; and if half of us should die, they will not mind us; for thou art as ten thousand of us: and now it is well that thou shalt be to us an aid to help us in the city.
And Joab said to the man who reported it to him, And, behold, thou didst see him: why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten pieces of silver, and a girdle.
And ten young men that bore Joab’s armor compassed Absalom, and smote him and slew him.
And a thousand men of Benjamin were with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons with him, and his twenty servants with him: and they went directly down to Jordan before the king,
And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are older than you, we have also an interest in David above you: and why have ye thus insulted us, and why was not our advice taken before that of Judah, to bring back our king? And the speech of the men of Judah was sharper than the speech of the men of Israel.
And David went into his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and he put them in a place of custody, and maintained them, and went not in to them; and they were kept living as widows, till the day of their death.
and ten choice calves, and twenty pastured oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides stags, and choice fatted does.
was over the levy.
was its length according to the breadth of the house in front of the house: and he built the house, and finished it.
And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
was ten cubits, and so was it with the second cherub.
And he cast the two pillars for the porch of the house: eighteen cubits was the height of each pillar, and a circumference of fourteen cubits encompassed it, even the thickness of the pillar: the flutings were four fingers wide, and thus was the other pillar formed.
And he made the sea, ten cubits from one rim to the other, the same was completely circular round about: its height was five cubits, and its circumference thirty-three cubits.
And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round;
And he made ten brazen bases: five cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and its height was six cubits.
According to the same form he made all the ten bases, even one order and one measure to all.
And he made ten brazen lavers, each laver containing forty baths, and measuring four cubits, each laver placed on a several base throughout the ten bases.
And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and the sea was placed on the right side of the house eastward in the direction of the south.
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Deka (Strong's G1176) is a Greek word most simply glossed "ten". deka (dek'-ah) n. 1. ten [a primary numeral]
This page currently indexes 288 linked usages for Strong's G1176 across 36 books.
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The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as ten, years, cubits, men, out, and thousand. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 236 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 26 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 2 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G1176, with linked reader references where each row is available.