Five
πέντεStrong’s G4002pente
Appears in 33 verses of the New Testament
In short
Pente is the Greek word usually translated “five”. It appears in 33 verses of the New Testament.
“And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.”
Meaning
Usually translated “five”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- five 38
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 9
- Matthew 7
- John 5
- Acts 5
- Mark 3
- Revelation 3
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 14:19And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
- Matthew 16:9Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
- Matthew 25:2And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
- Matthew 25:15And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
- Matthew 25:16Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
- Matthew 25:20And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
Greek dictionary
πέντε pente · five
πέντε indecl., οἱ, αἱ, τά, five: Mat.14:17, al (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “five” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FIVE, adjective
- “FIVE of them were wise, and five were foolish” Matthew 25:2
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.