adjective
hebdomēkonta
Strong’sG1440
seventy
stem hebdomēkont-5 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books0 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἑβδομήκοντα, οἱ, αἱ, τά, indecl.
(< ἑπτά),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1440 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
indeclinable, seventy, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta |
| object accusative | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | ||
| direct address vocative | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta |
| to, for dative | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta | hebdomēkonta |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
hebdomēkonta5×
Luke 10:1“seventy”… houteim anadeikata tos kurios kai heteroin hebdomēkonta duo kai apostelata autoin ana duo …After this, the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of Him to every town and place He …
Luke 10:17“seventy”Hupostrefala de tois hebdomēkonta duo meta charau legarōntois; Kurior, kai …The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons …
Acts 7:14“seventy five”… kai pantan tan sungeneian en psuchai hebdomēkonta pente,… father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.
Acts 23:23… hopōs poreuileia heōs Kaisareiau, kai hippeusoin hebdomēkonta kai dexiolaboin diakosioi, apo tritau hōrau …… and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to …
Acts 27:37“seventy”… pantais psuchais en te ploie diakosioi hebdomēkonta hex.In all, there were 276 of us on board.