ἑβδομήκοντα
hebdomḗkonta · G1440 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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seventy
Cardinal number, where there are seventy instances of a countable entity
ExamplesLuke 10:1 Now after this the Lord appointed seventy-two others, and sent them in pairs ahead of Him to every city and place where He Himself was going to come.
Luke 10:17 Now the seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name!”
Acts 7:14 “Then Joseph sent word and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five people in all.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὑποστρέφωto return, to go back, to come back 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- שִׁבְעִים shibʻîym · H7657 · seven, seventy
- Direct numerical equivalent: both terms denote the cardinal number seventy, with שִׁבְעִים (shibʻîym, H7657) serving as the standard Hebrew rendering that Greek ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta, G1440) translates in LXX contexts (e.g., Genesis 46:27, Exodus 1:5, Numbers 11:16).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Seventy60.30
- Used of a specific cardinal number, as of the Lord appointing seventy others and sending them ahead of Him in Luke 10:1, and the seventy returning with joy, reporting that even the demons were subject to them in Jesus' name in Luke 10:17.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon οἱ, αἱ, τά (from Herodotus down), seventy: Acts 7:14 (here Relz ἑβδομηκονταπεντε); Acts…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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