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ἑβδομηκοντάκις

hebdomēkontákis · G1441 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. seventy times

    Seventy occurrences

    Examples

    Matthew 18:22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy-seven times.

  2. seventy times

    Seventy multiples of a quantity

    Examples

    Matthew 18:22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy-seven times.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 2 entries
Seventy times60.74
In Matthew 18:22, Jesus tells Peter to forgive not merely seven times but seventy times seven, using this multiplied numeral to express a limitless standard of forgiveness rather than a literal count.
Seventy times60.77
The same occurrence in Matthew 18:22 also falls under this closely related numeral domain, since the term denotes the specific multiple of seven tens used in Jesus' command to forgive without setting any numerical limit.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἑπτά heptá · G2033 · seven · 88×ἕβδομος hébdomos · G1442 · seventh · 9×ἑβδομήκοντα hebdomḗkonta · G1440 · seventy · 5×ἑπτάκις heptákis · G2034 · seven times · 4×ἑβδομηκοντάκιςhebdomēkontákis · G1441ἑπτακισχίλιοι heptakischílioi · G2035 · seven thousand · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Gen 4:24), seventy times: ἑβδομηκοντάκις ἑπτά, seventy times seven times, i. e.…
(Gen 4:24), seventy times: ἑβδομηκοντάκις ἑπτά, seventy times seven times, i. e. countless times, Mt 18:22 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 37, 5 Note 2; Buttmann, 30 (26) and see ἑπτά, at the end; others (cf. R. V. marginal reading) seventy-seven times, see Meyer at the passage].

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Once, Twice, Three Times, Etc. [Cardinals of Time]1 occurrenceDouble, Four Times As Much, Etc. [Multiples]1 occurrence

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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