πολλάκις
pollákis · G4178 · Greek · 18 occurrences
Meanings
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often, many times
A number of related points of time
ExamplesMatthew 17:15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, because he has seizures and suffers terribly; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.
Mark 5:4 because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces; and no one was strong enough to subdue him.
Mark 9:22 “It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to kill him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!”
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- πυκνός pyknós · G4437 · often, frequent, so often
- πολλάκις and πυκνός both express frequency or repetition — 'often.' πυκνός, whose root sense is 'dense' or 'thick,' extends to frequency of occurrence, while πολλάκις is a direct multiplicative temporal adverb; the two converge on the shared concept of frequent recurrence, with πυκνός additionally carrying a nuance of density or closeness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Often, many times67.11
- The adverb describes an action's frequent repetition. Matthew's account of the demon-possessed boy records the father's description of his son's condition: “‘Lord, have mercy on my son, because he has seizures and suffers terribly; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water’” (Matthew 17:15).
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (from πολύς, πολλά), adverb (fr. Homer down), often, frequently: Mt 17:15; Mk 5:4; Mk…
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
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