δέκα, οἱ, αἱ, τά (from Homer down), ten: Mat_20:24, etc. θλῖψις ἡμερῶν δέκα, i. e. to last a short time: Rev_2:10; cf. Dan_1:12; Dan_1:14; Num_11:19; Terence, heaut. 5, 1, 36 decem dierum vix mi est familia.

δέκα deka 25x ten, Mat_20:24 ; Mat_25:1 ; ἡμερῶν δέκα , ten days, a few days, a short time, Rev_2:10 ten.

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 .† Compound of G3638 , 8 Eight and G1176 Ten 10

δέκα [page 139] The indeterminate use of δέκα to denote simply a period of time, which is found in Biblical Greek ( Gen_24:55 , Num_11:19 , Dan_1:14 , Rev_2:10 ), may be illustrated from P Petr III. 36 verso .5 where a prisoner complains that he has been harshly treated in prison λιμῶι παραπολλύμενος μῆνές εἰσιν δέκα , perishing from hunger for the last ten months ; and from a more literary source in the Mimes of Herodas I. 24 δέκ᾽ εἰσὶ μῆνες , during which a husband, who has gone on a journey to Egypt, does not write to his wife. See further Lumbroso in Archiv iv. p. 319 f., where some parallels are quoted from literary Κοινή . Of course there is no proof that the above is not to be taken literally.

δέκα [Etym: Some connect it with δάκτυλος, from the number of the fingers.] "ten", Lat. decem, Hom. , etc.: —οἱ δέκα "the Ten", Oratt. : οἱ δέκα [ἔτη] ἀφ᾽ ἥβης those who are "ten" years past 20 (the age of military service), Xen.

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)