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Greek adverb · G2034

ἑπτάκις

heptakishep-tak-is'

seven times

4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: heptákis

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2034is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G2034

seven times

The King James renders it: seven times.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

heptakis is rendered "seven times". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.

  • Two of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 18:21Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother who sins against me? Up to seven times?”
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother who sins against me? Up to seven times?”

Matthew 18:21ἑπτάκις;¶

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Two of the word's four uses are in Matthew.

The other 25 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • seven times4

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

ἑπτάheptasevenUses86
ἑπτακισχίλιοιheptakischilioiseven thousandUses1

All 4, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἑπτάκις3
  • ἑπτάκις;¶1

The grammar of each form

  • adverb4ADV

Matthew

two uses
  • Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother who sins against me? Up to seven times?”

    Matthew 18:21

    • ἑπτάκις;¶heptakisadverbtagged: seven times
  • Jesus answered, “I tell you, not just seven times, but seventy-seven times!

    Matthew 18:22

    • ἑπτάκιςheptakisadverbtagged: seven times

Luke

two uses
  • Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

    Luke 17:4

    • ἑπτάκιςheptakisadverbtagged: seven times
    • ἑπτάκιςheptakisadverbtagged: seven times

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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