ἕκτος
sixth
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1623 appears in the Book of Matthew — 3 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew
- Matthew 20:5 ἕκτην adj acc sg fem Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.
- Matthew 23:26 ἐκτὸς adj nom sg masc You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also.
- Matthew 27:45 ἕκτης adj gen sg fem Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
εκτος (héktos) is a Greek adjective most often rendered “sixth.” It first appears in Matthew 20:5. Spanning 15 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Revelation dominates its distribution — 5 of 15 verses. Related forms include εξ, εξακοσιοι and εξηκοντα. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1623 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #768
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 768 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 5 verses 33%
- Matthew 3 verses 20%
- Luke 3 verses 20%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.
- Gospels 9 verses · 60%
- Johannine 7 verses · 47%
- Revelation 5 verses · 33%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 4 verses · 27%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Sixth 14×
- American Standard Version: Sixth 13×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sixth 14×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sixth 14×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1623 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1623 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1623 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1623 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- the sixth
Word origin
Derived from εξ (héx) (G1803) — six.
Ordinal from G1803 ; sixth : - sixth.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G1623 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἕκτος héktos | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 1:36 | 4 |
| ἕκτη héktē | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Luke 23:44 | 3 |
| ἕκτην héktēn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 20:5 | 3 |
| ἕκτης héktēs | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 27:45 | 2 |
| ἕκτῳ héktō | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 1:26 | 2 |
| ἐκτὸς ektòs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 23:26 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1623, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εκτος appears 32 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 30 verses in 11 books.
- 32
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 30
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 1:31 ἕκτος
- Exodus 16:5 ἕκτος
- Leviticus 25:21 ἕκτος
- Numbers 7:42 ἕκτος
- Joshua 19:32 ἕκτος
- 2 Samuel 3:5 ἕκτος
- 2 Kings 18:10 ἕκτος
- 1 Chronicles 2:15 ἕκτος
- Ezra 6:15 ἕκτος
- Ezekiel 4:11 ἕκτος
- Haggai 1:1 ἕκτος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1623) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 1:31 ἕκτος God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
- Genesis 2:2 ἕκτος On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Genesis 30:19 ἕκτος Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
- Exodus 16:5 ἕκτος It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."
- Exodus 16:22 ἕκτος It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
- Exodus 16:29 ἕκτος Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."
- Exodus 26:9 ἕκτος You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.
- Leviticus 25:21 ἕκτος then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.
- Leviticus 25:28 ἕκτος But if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his propery.
- Numbers 7:42 ἕκτος On the sixth day, Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad
- Numbers 29:29 ἕκτος On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;
- Joshua 19:32 ἕκτος The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
- 2 Samuel 3:5 ἕκτος and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
- 2 Kings 18:10 ἕκτος At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
- 1 Chronicles 2:15 ἕκτος Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
- 1 Chronicles 3:3 ἕκτος the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife:
- 1 Chronicles 12:12 ἕκτος Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
- 1 Chronicles 24:9 ἕκτος the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
- 1 Chronicles 25:13 ἕκτος the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
- 1 Chronicles 26:3 ἕκτος Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh.
- 1 Chronicles 26:5 ἕκτος Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.
- 1 Chronicles 27:9 ἕκτος The sixth [captain] for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
- Ezra 6:15 ἕκτος This house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
- Ezra 13:30 ἕκτος
- Ezekiel 4:11 ἕκτος You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time shall you drink.
- Ezekiel 8:1 ἕκτος It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on me.
- Ezekiel 45:13 ἕκτος This is the offering that you shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of wheat; and you shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;
- Ezekiel 46:14 ἕκτος You shall prepare a meal-offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal-offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance.
- Haggai 1:1 ἕκτος In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
- Haggai 1:15 ἕκτος in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1623) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
