Word Study · Strong's G4178 · Greek
πολλάκις
pollakis
pol-lak'-is
Strong's 1890 spelling: pollákis
“many times, i.e. frequently”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
many times, i.e. frequently
Rendered in the KJV as
oft(-en, -entimes, -times).
- 18occurrencesin the New Testament
- 9 of 27New Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 18 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- πολλάκις14
- πολλάκις,3
- πολλάκις.1
How it is rendered · 5
- often10
- often,3
- repeatedly3
- many times1
- often.1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- adverb18
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- ADV · 18
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Where this word lives
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Matthew2 occurrences
- Matthew 17:15πολλάκιςpollakisadverb“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.here: often
- Matthew 17:15πολλάκιςpollakisadverb“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.here: often
Mark2 occurrences
- Mark 5:4πολλάκιςpollakisadverbThough he was often bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and shattered the shackles. Now there was no one with the strength to subdue him.here: often
- Mark 9:22πολλάκιςpollakisadverb“It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”here: often
John1 occurrence
2 Corinthians5 occurrences
- 2 Corinthians 8:22πολλάκιςpollakisadverbAnd we are sending along with them our brother whose earnestness has been proven many times and in many ways, and now even more so by his great confidence in you.here: often
- 2 Corinthians 11:23πολλάκις.pollakisadverbAre they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.here: often.
- 2 Corinthians 11:26πολλάκις,pollakisadverbIn my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,here: often,
- 2 Corinthians 11:27πολλάκις,pollakisadverbin labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.here: often,
- 2 Corinthians 11:27πολλάκις,pollakisadverbin labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.here: often,
Philippians1 occurrence
2 Timothy1 occurrence
Hebrews4 occurrences
- Hebrews 6:7πολλάκιςpollakisadverbFor land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.here: often
- Hebrews 9:25πολλάκιςpollakisadverbNor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.here: repeatedly
- Hebrews 9:26πολλάκιςpollakisadverbOtherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.here: repeatedly
- Hebrews 10:11πολλάκιςpollakisadverbDay after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.here: repeatedly