Fifth
πέμπτοςStrong’s G3991pemptos
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Pemptos is the Greek word usually translated “fifth”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:”
Meaning
Usually translated “fifth”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- fifth 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Revelation 9:1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
- Revelation 16:10And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
- Revelation 21:20The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
Greek dictionary
πέμπτος pemptos · fifth
πέμπτος, -η, -ον [in LXX for חֲמִישִׁי and cognate forms ;] fifth: Rev.6:9 9:1 16:10 21:20.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fifth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FIFTH, adjective
[See Five.]
- The ordinal of five; the next to the fourth.
- Elliptically, a fifth part; or the word may be considered as a noun, as to give a fifth or two fifths.
All definitions and other forms of “fifth”
FIFTH, noun
In music, an interval consisting of three tones and a semitone.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.