Deka is the Greek cardinal number 'ten,' appearing 27 times in the New Testament across parabolic, apocalyptic, and narrative contexts. Jesus employs it in three memorable parables: the ten virgins awaiting the bridegroom (Matt 25:1), the ten minas entrusted to servants (Luke 19:13-17), and the woman searching for one lost coin among ten (Luke 15:8). In narrative, the ten disciples are indignant at James and John's request for thrones (Matt 20:24; Mark 10:41), and Jesus heals ten lepers of whom only one returns to give thanks (Luke 17:12-17). Revelation deploys the number symbolically: the dragon has ten horns (Rev 12:3; 17:3, 7, 12, 16), representing ten kings who receive authority with the beast — imagery drawn from Daniel's ten-horned fourth beast (Dan 7:7). Across all target languages the numeral is rendered straightforwardly: Spanish 'diez,' French 'dix,' German 'zehn.'