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|strgr=from [[δέκα]] and [[πόλις]]; the [[ten]]-[[city]] [[region]]; the Decapolis, a [[district]] in [[Syria]]: Decapolis. | |strgr=from [[δέκα]] and [[πόλις]]; the [[ten]]-[[city]] [[region]]; the Decapolis, a [[district]] in [[Syria]]: Decapolis. | ||
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|txtha=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. Winer s RWB [[under]] the [[word]] Decapolis; Vaihinger in Herzog 3:325f; Riehm, HWB, 266f; (BB. DD., [[under]] the [[word]]): Mark 7:31. | |||
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