ἕξ
héx · G1803 · Greek · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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six
Cardinal number, where there are six instances of a countable entity
ExamplesMatthew 17:1 Six days later, Jesus took with Him Peter and James, and his brother John, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves.
Mark 9:2 And six days later Jesus took with Him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up on a high mountain by themselves. And He was transfigured before them;
Luke 4:25 “But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a severe famine came over all the land;
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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
- שֵׁשׁ shêsh · H8337 · six, sixty
- Direct numerical equivalent; Greek ἕξ and Hebrew שֵׁשׁ both denote the cardinal number six with no register or contextual restriction.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Six60.15
- This cardinal numeral denotes the number six, used of the six days that passed before Jesus took Peter, James, and John up the mountain of transfiguration — "Six days later, Jesus took with Him Peter and James, and his brother John" (Matthew 17:1), and of the six stone waterpots present at the wedding in Cana for Jewish purification — "there were six stone waterpots standing there for the Jewish custom of purification" (John 2:6).
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon οἱ, αἱ, τά, indeclinable numeral, six: Mt 17:1; Lk 13:14, etc.
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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