δεκάτη μόσχων

δέκᾰτος (Arc. [full] δέκοτος IG5(2).282 (Mantinea, v B.C.), also [dialect] Aeol. in Epigr.Gr.988.5 ([place name] Balbilla)), η, ον: ([etym.] δέκα):—

A tenth,

Ἠώς Il.6.175

, etc.; as a round number, Od.16.18, etc.

II [full] δεκάτη (sc. μερίς), ἡ, tenth part, tithe,

τᾶς δεκάτας δεκάταν Simon.141.4

, cf. Hdt.2.135, etc.;

τῇ θεῷ τὰς δ. ἐξαιρεθῆναι Lys.20.24

; τὰ ἐκ τῆς δ. the produce of the tenth, IG12.91, cf. Tab.Defix.99.14: esp. as a customs-duty, D.20.60;

δεκάτη μόσχων PTeb.307.8

(iii A.D.).

2 δεκάτη (sc. ἡμέρα), ἡ, the tenth day, Od.9.83, al.

b δ. προτέρα· ἡ πρὸ εἰκάδος, ὡς ὑστέρα· ἡ μετ' εἰκάδα, Hsch.

3 festival on the tenth day after birth, when the child has a name given it, τὴν δ. θύειν to give a naming-day feast, Ar.Av. 922, cf. 494;

δ. ὑπέρ τινος ἑστιᾶσαι D.40.28

, cf. 39.22.

4 δεκάτα· τάξις, ἄθροισμα, καὶ ἡ τῶν εἴκοσιν ἁρμάτων τάξις, Hsch.

5 δέκατον, τό, tenth part, LXX Le.23.13,17 (pl.).

δέκατος, η, ον (s. δέκα and next entry; Hom.+)

① pert. to being tenth in a series, tenth (ordinal number) a precious gem Rv 21:20; ὄρος Hs 9, 1, 9; 9, 27, 1; hour (prob.=4 P.M.; 3 Macc 5:14) J 1:39; Ac 19:9 D.

② pert. to being a tenth part of someth., part, as subst. (sc. μέρις)

ⓐ gener. τὸ δ. a tenth (part) (Appian, Ital. 8 §2; Lucian, Sat. 14; Ex 16:36; Lev 5:11 al.; Philo, Congr. Erud. Gr. 102) Rv 11:13.

ⓑ specific ἡ δεκάτη a tenth of someth. offered for a specific purpose tenth part, tithe (Simonides 106b Diehl²; Hdt. 2, 135; 4, 152) of booty (Maximus Tyr. 24, 5b [for the gods from the spoils of war]) Hb 7:2, 4 (Gen 14:20). Of the gift of a tithe prescribed by the Jewish law (LXX; Ps.-Hecataeus: 264 Fgm. 21 [188] Jac. [in Jos., C. Ap. 1, 188]; Philo, Congr. Erud. Gr. 98 al.; Joseph.; cp. on sim. sacred gifts Diod S 20, 14, 2; IDelosChoix 5, 2 [Artemis]; SEG XXVIII, 1541 [III/II B.C.]; IG XI, 1243 [III/II B.C.]; PHib 115, 1 [c. 250 B.C.]; μόσχων δεκάτης; PTebt 307, 8; O. Wilck I 348f; s. SWallace, Taxation in Egypt, ’38, index) pl. (as Lysias 20, 24; 2 Esdr 22:44; 1 Macc 3:49; 10:31; 11:35; Jos., Ant. 14, 203) Hb 7:8f (δέκ. λαμβάνειν as Diod S 5, 42, 1; Ps.-Lucian, Salt. 21).—JBaumgarten, JBL 103, ’84, 245–51 (Hb. background for nonliteral use).—Kl. Pauly I 1438. DELG s.v. δέκα. M-M. New Docs 3, 65.