Bible Names

Decapolis: meaning of the name

Decapolis means “containing ten cities.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Decapolis in Hebrew and Greek

Δεκάπολις G1179

Dekápolis — the ten-city region; the Decapolis, a district in Syria

from G1176 (δέκα) and G4172 (πόλις);

Places named Decapolis

Decapolis in Scripture

“Decapolis” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Matthew 4:25

    And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan.

  • Mark 5:20

    And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel.

  • Mark 7:31

    And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.