G4178 πολλάκις (pollákis)

Greek

ADV

Quick Definition

πολλάκις Adv many times, often

Strong's Definition

many times, i.e. frequently

Derivation: multiplicative adverb from G4183 (πολύς);

KJV Usage: oft(-en, -entimes, -times)

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

πολλάκις (G4178)

advb. | πολύς

67.11 · Time · A Point of Time without Reference to Other Points of Time: Time, Occasion, Ever, Often

often, many times a number of related points of time

MAT 17:15 · MAT 17:15 · MRK 5:4 · MRK 9:22 · JHN 18:2 · ACT 26:11 · ROM 1:13 · 2CO 8:22 · 2CO 11:23 · 2CO 11:26 · 2CO 11:27 · 2CO 11:27 · PHP 3:18 · 2TI 1:16 · HEB 6:7 · HEB 9:25 · HEB 9:26 · HEB 10:11

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

πολλάκις, (fr. πολύς, πολλά), adv., [fr. Hom. down], often, frequently : Mt. xvii. 15; Mk. v. 4; ix. 22; Jn. xviii. 2; Acts xxvi. 11; Ro.i.13; xv. 221, Trmrg.; 2 Co. viii. 22; xi. 23,26 sq.; Phil. iii, 18; 2 Tim. 1.16; Heb. vi. 7; ix. 25 sq.; x. 11.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

πολλάκις pollakis 18x

many times, often, frequently, Mt. 17:15; Mk. 5:4; 9:22

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

πολλάκις, adv.

(< πολύς),

often: Mt 17:15, al.

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

πολλάκις, κε often’’: P Oxy III. 5314 (ii/A.D.) περὶ οὗ μοι παλλάKets (/. πολλάκις) γράφεις ἀνθρώπου, ‘regarding the man about whom you write to me so often’”’ (Edd.), Ρ Ryl II. 75° (late ii/A.D.) ἔκρεινα πολλάκις, and P Flor III. 367° (ili/A.D.) πολλάκις pov ἐπιστείλαντός σοι. In P Lond 191438 (A.D. 335?) πολλαχῶς, ‘in many ways,’’ seems to be used for πολλάκις.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

πολλάκις (pollakis) — often. πολλάκις [ᾰ], Epic dialect and Lyric poetry πολλάκι, sometimes in Trag. (only Lyric poetry) for the sake of meter, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; never in Prose: (πολύς): adverb

I. of Time, many times, often, [Refs 8th c.BC+]

II. of Degree and Number, π. μυρίοι many tens of thousands, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Quantity, [τὴν] οὐσίαν π. τοσαύτην ἐποίησε [Refs]; of Size, μεῖζον π. [Refs 1st c.AD+]

II.2. τὸ π. mostly, for the most part, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; very much, altogether, χρὼς ὅμοιος ἐγίνετο πολλάκι θάψῳ [Refs 3rd c.BC+]

III. in Attic dialect, after conditional particles, perhaps, σεισμὸς εἰ γένοιτο π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐάν τι πολλὰ π. πάθω[Refs 5th c.BC+]; also μὴ π. lest perchance, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

πολλάκις adv. (πολύς), often: Mat.17:15, al (AS)

Bible Occurrences (16)

17:15

5:4 9:22

18:2

26:11

1:13

8:22 11:23 11:26 11:27

3:18

1:16

6:7 9:25 9:26 10:11

Matthew 17:15

Lord, have mercy on my son, he said. He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire [or] into the water.

Mark 5:4

[Though] he {was} often bound with chains and shackles, he had broken...... the chains and shattered the shackles. Now [there was] no one with the strength to subdue him.

Mark 9:22

It often throws him into [the] fire [or] into [the] water, trying to kill him. But if You can [do] anything, have compassion on us [and] help us.

John 18:2

Now Judas His betrayer also knew the place, because Jesus {had} often met there with His disciples.

Acts 26:11

I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, [and] I tried to make [them] blaspheme. In my raging fury... against them, {I} even [went] to foreign cities to persecute [them].

Romans 1:13

I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you ([but] have been prevented [from visiting] until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you -, just as [I have had] among the other Gentiles.

2 Corinthians 8:22

And we are sending along with them our brother who has proven his earnestness [to us] many times [and] in many ways, and now even more [so] by [his] great confidence in you.

2 Corinthians 11:23

Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.