πολλάκις pollakis

Greek word for “often” · Strong’s G4178 · used 18 times in 16 verses

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Meaning

πολλάκις; adv. (πολύς); often:, al;

How it is translated

Glosses given for pollakis in context, with how often each is used:

• often 14
• repeatedly 3
• many times 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Corinthians 11 (3), Hebrews 9 (2), Matthew 17 (1), Mark 5 (1), Mark 9 (1), John 18 (1), Acts 26 (1), Romans 1 (1), 2 Corinthians 8 (1), Philippians 3 (1)

Forms

• πολλάκις 18

Words used with it

Words that share verses with pollakis more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἅλυσις halusis “chain” 2
• κόπος kopos “labor” 2
• νυνί nuni “now” 2
• θυσία thusia “sacrifice” 2
• πάσχω paschō “to suffer” 2
• προσφέρω prospherō “to bring to” 2
• ὕδωρ hudōr, hudatos “water” 2
• πῦρ pur “fire” 2
• κατά kata “according to” 3
• ἔθνος ethnos “Gentiles” 2
• ἁμαρτία hamartia “sin” 2
• πόλις polis “city” 2

Key verses

The verses using pollakis that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Mark 9:22 — And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
• Acts 26:11 — And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
• Romans 1:13 — Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also,…
• 2 Corinthians 11:23 — Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
• 2 Corinthians 11:26 — In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils…
• 2 Corinthians 11:27 — In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
• Philippians 3:18 — (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
• 2 Timothy 1:16 — The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
• Hebrews 6:7 — For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
• Hebrews 9:25 — Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
• Hebrews 9:26 — For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice…
• Hebrews 10:11 — And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.