Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
often
Usage: πολλάκις adv. (πολύς), often: Mat.17:15, al (AS)
Pollakis means “many times” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4178 — morat (“peeled”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4178 πολλάκις (pollakis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pollakis (pol-lak'-is) adv. 1. many times, i.e. frequently [multiplicative adverb from G4183] It has 27 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include oft and many. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
pollakis (pol-lak'-is) adv. 1. many times, i.e. frequently [multiplicative adverb from G4183] KJV: oft(-en, -entimes, -times) Root(s): G4183
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often
Usage: πολλάκις adv. (πολύς), often: Mat.17:15, al (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pollakis, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4178 (πολλάκις) appears 11 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
16 indexed usages in New Testament.
Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
9 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
But I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it was ordained unto all the people of Israel by an everlasting decree, having the firstfruits and tenths of increase, with that which was first shorn; and them gave I at the altar to the priests the children of Aaron.
To whom the angel said, I will go with thee, and I know the way well: for I have lodged with our brother Gabael.
Then Tobit said unto him, Brother, show me of what tribe and family thou art.
First 27 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4178.
Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? But who shall endure the force of thy words?
And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh (Whereas I was very kind:
Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
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 of himself.
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
But I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it was ordained unto all the people of Israel by an everlasting decree, having the firstfruits and tenths of increase, with that which was first shorn; and them gave I at the altar to the priests the children of Aaron.
To whom the angel said, I will go with thee, and I know the way well: for I have lodged with our brother Gabael.
Then Tobit said unto him, Brother, show me of what tribe and family thou art.
Forasmuch as oftentimes there have been wars in the country, wherein for the maintenance of their sanctuary, and the law, Simon the son of Mattathias, of the posterity of Jarib, together with his brethren, put themselves in jeopardy, and resisting the enemies of their nation did their nation great honor:
Again, considering how that the princes that are borderers and neighbors unto my kingdom wait for opportunities, and expect what shall be the event, I have appointed my son Antiochus king, whom I often committed and commended unto many of you, when I went up into the high provinces; to whom I have written as followeth:
But when Judas his first band came in sight, the enemies, being smitten with fear and terror through the appearing of him that seeth all things, fled amain, one running this way, another that way, so as that they were often hurt of their own men, and wounded with the points of their own swords.
For this cause the feeling of expectation causes tumult in the city: it swarms with factions; and is continually on the point of being plundered.
Ah! wretched I, and many times miserable; who having born seven sons, have become the mother of none.
Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, And believe not every tale.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4178, grouped by book.
Pollakis (Strong's G4178) is a Greek word most simply glossed "many times". pollakis (pol-lak'-is) adv. 1. many times, i.e. frequently [multiplicative adverb from G4183]
This page currently indexes 27 linked usages for Strong's G4178 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4178 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as oft and many. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 9 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4178, with linked reader references where each row is available.