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Strong's #1179 - Δεκάπολις
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Decapolis = "ten cities"
- a track of land so called from the ten cities that were in it
- according to Pliny, these cities were: Damascus, Opoton, Philadelphia, Raphana, Scythopolis, Gadara, Hippondion, Pella, Galasa, and Canatha (Gill)
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Δεκάπολις, Δεκαπολισεως, ἡ, Decapolis (regio decapolitana, Pliny, h. n. 5, 16, 17), i. e. a region embracing ten cities. This name is borne by a district of the tribe of Manasseh beyond the Jordan and bordering upon Syria, embracing ten principal cities with smaller towns also scattered in among them. But the ancient geographers vary in their enumeration of these ten cities. Pliny, the passage cited reckons Damascus among them, which Josephus seems to have excluded, calling Scythopolis μεγίστην τῆς Δεκαπόλεως, b. j. 3, 9, 7. All seem to agree in this, that Gadara, Hippo, Pella and Scythopolis were of the number. Cf. Winers RWB under the word Decapolis; Vaihinger in Herzog 3:325f; Riehm, HWB, 266f; (BB. DD., under the word): Matthew 4:25; Mark 5:20; Mark 7:31.
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Δεκά -πολις , -εως , ὴ ,
Decapolis, a region east of the Jordan containing ten cities: Matthew 4:25, Mark 5:20; Mark 7:31.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Cagnat III. 1057.5 (A.D. 134) Ἀγαθάνγελος Ἀβιληνὸς τῆς Δεκαπόλεος : the editor distinguishes this Abila from A. Lysaniae, near Damascus. See also G. A. Smith (EBi 1051). For the formation of the name cf. Τρικωμία (as in P Par 47.24—c. B.C. 153), Δικωμία (BGU IV. 1208.21—B.C. 27), and πενταφυλία (Chrest. I. 77.9—A.D. 149).
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