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Koine Greek wordlink #63640

SR GNT Yhn 1:39 δεκάτη (dekataʸ) ‘the hour was about the tenth’ Strongs=11820 Lemma=dekatos
Word role=substantive adjective case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular

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Only use of identical word form δεκάτη (S-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘δεκάτη’ (S-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘the tenth’.

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘dekatos’ have 4 different glosses: ‘a tenth’, ‘the tenth’, ‘tenth’, ‘tithes’.

Greek words (4) other than δεκάτη (S-NFS) with a gloss related to ‘tenth’

HEB 7:2 δεκάτην (dekataʸn) S-AFS ‘to whom also a tenth of all things allotted’ SR GNT Heb 7:2 word 3

HEB 7:4 δεκάτην (dekataʸn) S-AFS ‘how_great is this one to whom a tenth Abraʼam/(ʼAⱱrāhām) gave out_of’ SR GNT Heb 7:4 word 7

REV 11:13 δέκατον (dekaton) S-NNS ‘great and the tenth of the city fell’ SR GNT Rev 11:13 word 14

REV 21:20 δέκατος (dekatos) S-NMS ‘ninth topaz the tenth chrysoprase the eleventh’ SR GNT Rev 21:20 word 19

Key: S=substantive adjective AFS=accusative,feminine,singular NFS=nominative,feminine,singular NMS=nominative,masculine,singular NNS=nominative,neuter,singular