Greek adverb · G530
ἅπαξ
hapaxhap'-ax
once
14 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hápax
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G530is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G530
one (or a single) time (numerically or conclusively)
The King James renders it: once.
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
hapax is rendered "once". It stands 14 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Corinthians 11:25Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
The first use
Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's fourteen uses are in Hebrews.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- once13
- once for all1
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.
All 14, 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
- ἅπαξ14
The grammar of each form
- adverb14ADV
2 Corinthians
one use
Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once
Philippians
one use
For even while I was in Thessalonica, you provided for my needs again and again.
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once
1 Thessalonians
one use
For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us.
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once
Hebrews
eight uses
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once
But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once
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.
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once
so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once
If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins.
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once
At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.”
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once
The words “Once more” signify the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that the unshakable may remain.
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once
1 Peter
one use
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once
Jude
two uses
Beloved, although I made every effort to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt it necessary to write and urge you to contend earnestly for the faith entrusted once for all to the saints.
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once for all
Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
- ἅπαξhapaxadverbtagged: once
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.