ἑπτακίς
seven times
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adverb
- A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
Every verse where G2034 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 books. 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 2 verses
Luke 1 verse
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.
At its core, επτακις (heptákis) means “seven times.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to Matthew (67%), then Luke. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 18:21. It shares a root with επτα, εβδομος and επτακισχιλιοι. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2034 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
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 3 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 33%
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: Seven times 4×
- American Standard Version: Seven times 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Seven times 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Seven times 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2034 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2034 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2034 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2034 across 4 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.
- seven times
Word origin
Derived from επτα (heptá) (G2033) — seven.
Adverb from G2033 ; seven times : - seven times.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2034, 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 επτακις appears 21 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 20 verses in 6 books.
- 21
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 20
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 4:24 ἑπτάκις
- Leviticus 4:6 ἑπτάκις
- Numbers 19:4 ἑπτάκις
- 1 Kings 18:43 ἑπτάκις
- 2 Kings 4:35 ἑπτάκις
- Psalms 118:164 ἑπτάκις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2034) 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 4:24 ἑπτάκις If Cain will be avenged seven times, Truly Lamech seventy-seven times."
- Genesis 33:3 ἑπτάκις He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
- Leviticus 4:6 ἑπτάκις The priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before Yahweh, before the veil of the sanctuary.
- Leviticus 4:17 ἑπτάκις and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Yahweh, before the veil.
- Leviticus 8:11 ἑπτάκις He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.
- Leviticus 14:7 ἑπτάκις He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
- Leviticus 14:16 ἑπτάκις The priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 14:27 ἑπτάκις and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before Yahweh.
- Leviticus 14:51 ἑπτάκις He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.
- Leviticus 16:14 ἑπτάκις He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
- Leviticus 16:19 ἑπτάκις He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
- Leviticus 25:8 ἑπτάκις "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
- Leviticus 26:18 ἑπτάκις "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:24 ἑπτάκις then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:28 ἑπτάκις then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.
- Numbers 19:4 ἑπτάκις and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
- 1 Kings 18:43 ἑπτάκις He said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times.
- 2 Kings 4:35 ἑπτάκις Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
- 2 Kings 5:10 ἑπτάκις Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.
- Psalms 118:164 ἑπτάκις
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2034) 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.
