ἕξ
six
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Every verse where G1803 appears in the Book of Matthew — 1 distinct verse. 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
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.
εξ — transliterated héx — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “six.” It first appears in Matthew 17:1. The Greek New Testament uses it across 12 verses — uncommon. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in John. Related forms include εκτος, εξακοσιοι and εξηκοντα. See the sense tree, 12-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1803 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
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 12 distinct verses.
- Gospels 7 verses · 58%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 42%
- Johannine 4 verses · 33%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 8%
- Revelation 1 verse · 8%
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: Six 11×
- American Standard Version: Six 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Six 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Six 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1803 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1803 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1803 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1803 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
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.
- six
Word origin
Origin: a primary numeral
A primary numeral; six : - six.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1803 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἓξ hèx | Adjective, Numeral (indeclinable) | Matthew 17:1 | 8 |
| ἕξ héx | Adjective, Numeral (indeclinable) | Luke 4:25 | 4 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1803, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εξ appears 119 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 110 verses in 19 books.
- 119
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 110
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 19 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 19 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 16:16 ἕξ
- Exodus 13:6 ἕξ
- Leviticus 12:5 ἕξ
- Numbers 1:21 ἕξ
- Deuteronomy 5:13 ἕξ
- Joshua 6:14 ἕξ
- Ruth 3:15 ἕξ
- 1 Samuel 13:5 ἕξ
- 2 Samuel 2:11 ἕξ
- 1 Kings 6:6 ἕξ
- 2 Kings 11:3 ἕξ
- 1 Chronicles 3:4 ἕξ
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1803) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 110. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 16:16 ἕξ Abram was eighty-six years old, when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
- Genesis 30:20 ἕξ Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.
- Genesis 31:41 ἕξ These twenty years have I been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
- Genesis 46:18 ἕξ These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
- Genesis 46:26 ἕξ All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.
- Exodus 13:6 ἕξ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.
- Exodus 16:26 ἕξ Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."
- Exodus 20:9 ἕξ You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
- Exodus 20:11 ἕξ for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
- Exodus 21:2 ἕξ If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
- Exodus 23:10 ἕξ "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,
- Exodus 23:12 ἕξ "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.
- Exodus 24:16 ἕξ The glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
- Exodus 25:32 ἕξ There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;
- Exodus 25:33 ἕξ three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;
- Exodus 25:35 ἕξ and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
- Exodus 26:9 ἕξ 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.
- Exodus 26:22 ἕξ For the far part of the tent westward you shall make six boards.
- Exodus 26:25 ἕξ There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
- Exodus 28:10 ἕξ six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.
- Exodus 31:15 ἕξ Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 31:17 ἕξ It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"
- Exodus 34:21 ἕξ Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
- Exodus 35:2 ἕξ 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
- Leviticus 12:5 ἕξ But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.
- Leviticus 23:3 ἕξ "'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no manner of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
- Leviticus 24:6 ἕξ You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 25:3 ἕξ Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;
- Numbers 1:21 ἕξ those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
- Numbers 2:11 ἕξ His division, and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
- Numbers 7:3 ἕξ and they brought their offering before Yahweh, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented them before the tabernacle.
- Numbers 26:18 ἕξ These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
- Numbers 31:38 ἕξ The oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two.
- Numbers 31:44 ἕξ and thirty-six thousand oxen,
- Numbers 31:46 ἕξ and sixteen thousand persons),
- Numbers 31:52 ἕξ All the gold of the heave-offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
- Numbers 35:6 ἕξ The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.
- Numbers 35:13 ἕξ The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
- Deuteronomy 5:13 ἕξ Six days shall you labor, and do all your work;
- Deuteronomy 15:12 ἕξ If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
- Deuteronomy 15:18 ἕξ It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.
- Deuteronomy 16:8 ἕξ Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work [therein].
- Joshua 6:14 ἕξ The second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
- Joshua 7:5 ἕξ The men of Ai struck of them about thirty-six men; and they chased them [from] before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent; and the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
- Joshua 15:59 ἕξ and Maarath, and Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.
- Ruth 3:15 ἕξ He said, Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it; and she held it; and he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid it on her: and he went into the city.
- Ruth 3:17 ἕξ She said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me; for he said, "Don't go empty to your mother-in-law."
- 1 Samuel 13:5 ἕξ The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
- 2 Samuel 2:11 ἕξ The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
- 2 Samuel 5:5 ἕξ In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1803) 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.
