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DECAPOLIS. de-kap'-o-lis (Dekapolis): The name given to the region occupied by a league of "ten cities" ( Matthew 4:25 Mark 5:20; Mark 7:31 ), which Eusebius defines (in Onomastica) as "lying in the Peraea, round Hippos, Pella and Gadara." Such combinations of Greek cities arose as Rome assumed dominion in the East, to promote their common ...
Israel. Jordan. Syria. The Decapolis (Greek: Δεκάπολις, Dekápolis, 'Ten Cities') was a group of ten Greek Hellenistic cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in the Southern Levant in the first centuries BC and AD. They formed a group because of their language, culture, religion, location, and political status, with each ...
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Jan 4, 2022 · Jesus visited the region of Decapolis during His ministry. Matthew calls it “the region of the Gadarenes,” because Jesus was near Gadara, in Matthew 8:28. The ten cities that formed Decapolis probably entered their league with each other about the time the Roman general Pompey defeated Syria in 65 BC.
The Decapolis, as its name implies (Gr. deka: “ten,” polis: “city”), was, in NT times, the area of the ten towns. In such significance the term occurs in Matthew ( 4:25 ), Mark ( 5:20; 7:31 ), Pliny ( Natural History V. 16, 17) and Josephus (War III. ix. 7). Its original meaning may have been political rather than geographical ...
Mar 14, 2019 · The Decapolis (Δεκάπολις), was made up of ten cities, most of which were constructed between the 4th century BC and 1st Century BC. They were Greek in origins and it was expected to contain the Greek colonist, who lived with the Semitic cultural people. This caused a few fights here and there due to the different practices and traditions.In 63 BC, Pompey, a Roman general, conquered ...
DECAPOLIS. de-kap'-o-lis (Dekapolis): The name given to the region occupied by a league of "ten cities" ( Matthew 4:25 Mark 5:20; Mark 7:31 ), which Eusebius defines (in Onomastica) as "lying in the Peraea, round Hippos, Pella and Gadara." Such combinations of Greek cities arose as Rome assumed dominion in the East, to promote their common ...
May 8, 2018 · The Decapolis which was originally attached to the Roman Province of Syria is already mentioned in the 1 st century c.e. by Josephus (Wars, 3:446), who refers to Scythopolis as the largest of the cities of the Decapolis, and in the New Testament with Jesus at one point passing through the region of the Decapolis (Mark 7:31, cf. 5:20; Matthew 4:25).
