Greek word · G1160
δαπάνη
dapanē
cost
Expense, cost, expenditure: the outlay needed for a project, a household, a festival, an army or a sacrifice.
Appears once in the Greek New Testament. ·
What it means
δαπάνη, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX: Esther 6:4, 8 (נִפְקָא), Dan LXX Bel 1:21, al. ;]
expense, cost: Luke 14:28.†
(AS)
From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
- Range of meaning
Expense, cost, expenditure: the outlay needed for a project, a household, a festival, an army or a sacrifice.
- Against the English
'Cost' (most versions), 'expence' (YLT). The renderings are accurate.
- Used elsewhere in the period
This is the only use in the New Testament. In the Greek Old Testament it is used for the expense of rebuilding the temple, paid from the royal treasury (Ezra 6:4, 8 in the LXX; compare 1 Esdras 6), and for the costs of the sacrifices (2 Macc 3:3). It is a standard financial word in the papyri.
Where it appears
Luke · 1
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Luke 14:28 δαπάνην cost
Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?
Here: The money that has to be spent: materials, labor, the whole bill. This is the only place the word appears in the New Testament.
Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.