ἅπαξ hapax

Greek word for “once” · Strong’s G530 · used 14 times in 14 verses

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Meaning

ἅπαξ; adv.; (a) once:, Heb_9:26-27;

How it is translated

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

• once 11
• once more 2
• once for 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Hebrews 9 (4), Hebrews 12 (2), Jude 1 (2), 2 Corinthians 11 (1), Philippians 4 (1), 1 Thessalonians 2 (1), Hebrews 6 (1), Hebrews 10 (1), 1 Peter 3 (1)

Forms

• ἅπαξ 14

Words used with it

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

• ἁμαρτία hamartia “sin” 4
• δεύτερος deuteros “secondly” 3
• προσφέρω prospherō “to bring to” 3
• δίς dis “twice” 2
• ἔτι eti “still” 3
• σαλεύω saleuō “to shake” 2
• ἐπεί epei “since” 2
• χωρίς chōris “without” 2
• πάσχω paschō “to suffer” 2
• σωτηρία sōtēria “salvation” 2
• μόνος monos “alone” 2
• λαός laos “a people” 2

Key verses

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

• 2 Corinthians 11:25 — Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
• 1 Thessalonians 2:18 — Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
• Hebrews 6:4 — For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
• Hebrews 9:7 — But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
• 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 9:27 — And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
• Hebrews 9:28 — So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
• Hebrews 12:26 — Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
• Hebrews 12:27 — And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may…
• 1 Peter 3:18 — For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the…
• Jude 1:3 — Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly…
• Jude 1:5 — I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed…

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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.