Greek adverb · G4178
πολλάκις
pollakispol-lak'-is
often
18 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pollákis
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4178is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4178
many times, i.e. frequently
The King James renders it: oft(-en, -entimes, -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
pollakis is rendered "often". It stands 18 times in the Greek text, across nine books.
- Five of the uses stand in 2 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 17:15“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.
The first use
“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.
Matthew 17:15πολλάκις
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's eighteen uses are in 2 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- often14
- repeatedly3
- many times1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πολλαπλασίων | pollaplasion | many times more | Uses1 |
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- πολλάκις18
The grammar of each form
- adverb18ADV
Matthew
two uses
“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.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
Mark
two uses
Though 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.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
“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.”
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
John
one use
Now Judas His betrayer also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with His disciples.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
Acts
one use
I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
Romans
one use
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: many times
2 Corinthians
five uses
And 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.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
Are 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.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
In 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,
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
Philippians
one use
For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
2 Timothy
one use
May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
Hebrews
four uses
For 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.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: often
Nor 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.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: repeatedly
Otherwise, 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.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: repeatedly
Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
- πολλάκιςpollakisadverbtagged: repeatedly
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.