πυκνός
pyknós · G4437 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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often, frequent, so often
Pertaining to a number of related points of time occurring with limited intervals
ExamplesLuke 5:33 And they said to Him, “The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink.”
1 Timothy 5:23 Do not go on drinking only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.
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so often, very often, as often as possible
Pertaining to a number of related points of time occurring with short intervals and probably somewhat more emphatic than πυκνός, πυκνά
ExamplesActs 24:26 At the same time he was also hoping that money would be given to him by Paul; therefore he also used to send for him quite often and talk with him.
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
- πολλάκις pollákis · G4178 · often, many times
- πυκνός and πολλάκις both express temporal frequency or repetition. πυκνός extends its root sense of 'dense, thick' to frequency, while πολλάκις is a direct multiplicative adverb meaning 'many times'; both converge on the shared functional range of expressing recurrence.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Often, frequent, so often67.12
- The adverbial form describes an action occurring frequently. The Pharisees observe of John's disciples: “The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink” (Luke 5:33).
- So often, very often, as often as possible67.13
- The comparative form of the same word intensifies the frequency further. Luke describes Felix's motive for meeting with Paul: “he also used to send for him quite often and talk with him” (Acts 24:26).
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πυκνη, πυκνόν (ΠΥΚΩ, see πυγμή), from Homer down, thick, dense, compact; in reference to…
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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