ἐφάπαξ
ephápax · G2178 · Greek · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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once, one time
A single occurrence
Examples1 Corinthians 15:6 After that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep;
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once and for all, once and never again
A single occurrence to the exclusion of any other similar occurrence
ExamplesRomans 6:10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all time; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
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at the same time
A point of time which is emphatically simultaneous with another point of time
Examples1 Corinthians 15:6 After that He appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep;
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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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Once, one time60.67
- In Romans 6:10, Paul writes of Christ, “For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all time,” using this word for a single occasion.
- Once and for all, once and never again60.68
- In Hebrews 9:12, of Christ's own sacrifice it is written that He entered the holy place “once for all time, having obtained eternal redemption,” done once and never to be repeated.
- At the same time67.34
- In 1 Corinthians 15:6, Paul writes that the risen Christ “appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time,” using this word for many people experiencing something simultaneously.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Treg. in Heb. ἐφ' ἅπαξ; cf. Lipsius, gram. Unters., p. 127), adverb (from ἐπί and ἅπαξ…
a. our all at once: 1 Cor 15:6.
b. our once for all: Rom 6:10; Heb 7:27; Heb 9:12; Heb 10:10. (Lucian, Dio Cassius, others.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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