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Strong's G530 ἅπαξ (hapax)

Hapax means “once” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H530 — emunah (“faith”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G530
Language Greek
Linked Usages 48
Books 26

Strong's G530 Quick Answer

Strong's G530 ἅπαξ (hapax) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. hapax (hap'-ax) adv. 1. one time (numerically or conclusively) [probably from G537] It has 48 linked Bible usages across 26 books. Visible English usage signals include once and time. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
hapax (hap'-ax) adv. 1. one time (numerically or conclusively) [probably from G537]
Usage
48 linked usages
Books
26 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
once and time

Meaning and Definition

hapax (hap'-ax) adv. 1. one time (numerically or conclusively) [probably from G537] KJV: once Root(s): G537

Original Word
ἅπαξ
Transliteration
hapax
Derivation
Root: ἅπας R1: 537
Morphology
adverb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G530. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

once

Usage: ἅπαξ adv., [in LXX for אֶחָד, פַּעַם ;] __(a) once: 2Co.11:25, Heb_9:26-27; ἔτι ἅ., Heb.12:26-27; ἅ. τ. ἐνιαυτοῦ, Heb.9:7; καί ἅ. κ. δίς, twice: Php.4:16, 1Th.2:18; __(b) once for all: Heb.6:4 9:28 10:2, 1Pe.3:18, Ju 3 5 (MM, VGT, see word).† (AS)

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How Strong's G530 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render hapax, 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.

How Strong's G530 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 30 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G530 (ἅπαξ) appears 40 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G530 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G530 in the New Testament

15 indexed usages in New Testament.

2 Corinthians 11:25 KJV

Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

Philippians 4:16 KJV

For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

1 Thessalonians 2:18 KJV

Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.

Strong's G530 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

30 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 18:32 Septuagint / Brenton

And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I speak yet once? but if there should be found there ten? And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.

Exodus 30:10 Septuagint / Brenton

And once in the year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns, he shall purge it with the blood of purification for their generations: it is most holy to the Lord.

Leviticus 16:34 Septuagint / Brenton

And this shall be to you a perpetual statute to make atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins: it shall be done once in the year, as the Lord commanded Moses.

Strong's G530 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 3:30 Septuagint / Brenton

he feared that he should not be able to bear the charges any longer, nor to have such gifts to give so liberally as he did before: for he had abounded above the kings that were before him.

2 Maccabees 3:37 Septuagint / Brenton

And when the king asked Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said,

3 Maccabees 1:11 Septuagint / Brenton

And when they told him that this was not permissible, none of the nation, no, nor even the priests in general, but only the supreme high priest of all, and he only once in a year, being allowed to go in, he would by no means give way.

Usage Excerpts

First 48 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G530.

Genesis 18:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, Will there be anything against me, Lord, if I speak yet once? but if there should be found there ten? And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.
Exodus 30:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And once in the year Aaron shall make atonement on its horns, he shall purge it with the blood of purification for their generations: it is most holy to the Lord.
Leviticus 16:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this shall be to you a perpetual statute to make atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins: it shall be done once in the year, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Numbers 16:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Separate yourselves from the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once.
Numbers 17:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Depart out of the midst of this congregation, and I will consume them at once: and they fell upon their faces.
Deuteronomy 9:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have spoken to thee once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
Joshua 10:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joshua smote, once for all, all their kings, and their land, because the Lord God of Israel fought on the side of Israel.
Judges 6:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Gideon said to God, Let not, I pray thee, thine anger be kindled with me, and I will speak yet once; I will even yet make one trial more with the fleece: let now the drought be upon the fleece only, and let there be dew on all the ground.
Judges 15:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Samson said to them, Even for once am I guiltless with regard to the Philistines, in that I do mischief among them.
Judges 16:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Delilah saw that he told her all his heart, and she sent and called the princes of the Philistines, saying, Come up yet this once; for he has told me all his heart. And the chiefs of the Philistines went up to her, and brought the money in their hands.
Judges 16:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Delilah said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson: and he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as at former times, and shake myself; and he knew not that the Lord was departed from him.
Judges 16:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Samson wept before the Lord, and said, O Lord, my Lord, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, O God, yet this once, and I will requite one recompense to the Philistines for my two eyes.
Judges 20:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as before.
Judges 20:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Benjamin went out to meet the people, and were all drawn out of the city, and began to smite and slay the people as before in the roads, whereof one goes up to Bethel, and one to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
1 Kingdoms 3:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord came, and stood, and called him as before: and Samuel said, Speak, for thy servant hears.
1 Kingdoms 17:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he girded David with his sword over his coat: and he made trial walking with them once and again: and David said to Saul, I shall not be able to go with these, for I have not proved them: so they remove them from him.
1 Kingdoms 20:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he sat upon his seat as in former times, even on his seat by the wall, and he went before Jonathan; and Abner sat on one side of Saul, and the place of David was empty.
1 Kingdoms 26:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abishai said to David, The Lord has this day shut up thine enemy into thy hands, and now I will smite him to the earth with the spear to the ground once for all, and I will not smite him again.
2 Kingdoms 17:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hushai said to Absalom, This counsel which Ahithophel has counseled this one time is not good.
2 Kingdoms 23:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These are the names of the mighty men of David: Josheb-basshebeth the Canaanite is a captain of the third part: Adinon the Asonite, he drew his sword against eight hundred soldiers at once.
1 Chronicles 11:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this is the list of the mighty men of David; Jashobeam, son of Hachmon, first of the thirty: he drew his sword once against three hundred whom he slew at one time.
2 Chronicles 9:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For a ship went for the king to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram: once every three years came vessels from Tarshish to the king, laden with gold, and silver, and ivory, and apes.
Nehemiah 13:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
Job 33:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For when the Lord speaks once, Or a second time,
Job 40:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I have spoken once; but I will not do so a second time.
Psalms 61:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
God has spoken once, and I have heard these two things, That power is of God;
Psalms 88:36 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lie to David.
Isaiah 66:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who has heard such a thing? and who has seen after this manner? Has the earth travailed in one day? or has even a nation been born at once, that Zion has travailed, and brought forth her children?
Daniel 2:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then once for all the earthenware, the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold, were ground to powder, and became as chaff from the summer threshing floor; and the violence of the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them: and the stone which had smitten the image became a great mountain, and filled all the earth.
Haggai 2:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
2 Corinthians 11:25 New Testament, KJV
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
Philippians 4:16 New Testament, KJV
For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
1 Thessalonians 2:18 New Testament, KJV
Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
Hebrews 6:4 New Testament, KJV
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
Hebrews 9:7 New Testament, KJV
But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
Hebrews 9:26 New Testament, KJV
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.
Hebrews 9:27 New Testament, KJV
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Hebrews 9:28 New Testament, KJV
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Hebrews 10:2 New Testament, KJV
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Hebrews 12:26 New Testament, KJV
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Hebrews 12:27 New Testament, KJV
And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
1 Peter 3:18 New Testament, KJV
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1 Peter 3:20 New Testament, KJV
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Jude 1:3 New Testament, KJV
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Jude 1:5 New Testament, KJV
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
1 Maccabees 3:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
he feared that he should not be able to bear the charges any longer, nor to have such gifts to give so liberally as he did before: for he had abounded above the kings that were before him.
2 Maccabees 3:37 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when the king asked Heliodorus, who might be a fit man to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said,
3 Maccabees 1:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And when they told him that this was not permissible, none of the nation, no, nor even the priests in general, but only the supreme high priest of all, and he only once in a year, being allowed to go in, he would by no means give way.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G530, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Haggai 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Philippians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 8 usages, New Testament
1 Peter 2 usages, New Testament
Jude 2 usages, New Testament
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G530 FAQ

What does hapax (ἅπαξ) mean?

Hapax (Strong's G530) is a Greek word most simply glossed "once". hapax (hap'-ax) adv. 1. one time (numerically or conclusively) [probably from G537]

How many times is hapax (ἅπαξ) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 48 linked usages for Strong's G530 across 26 books.

Where can I study hapax (ἅπαξ) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G530 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate hapax (ἅπαξ)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as once and time. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G530 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 30 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G530, with linked reader references where each row is available.