adjective
hekaton
Strong’sG1540
one hundred
stem hekat-17 times in the New Testamentin 6 of 27 books0 of 26 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Ἑκατόν means the number one hundred 1234. It is an indeclinable word, meaning its form does not change regardless of gender or grammatical case 13.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G1540 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhek-at-on'
a hundred
Fromof uncertain affinity;
King Jameshundred.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Refs 4th c.AD+ ἑκοτόν Refs 4th c.BC+, οἱ, αἱ, τά, indeclinable:— a hundred, Refs 8th c.BC+: in compounds frequently loosely for very many. (Dissim. from sém [kcirc]ṃtóm, compare εἷς and Latin centum, Lithuanian ši[mtilde]tas, etc.)
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 | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton |
| object accusative | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton | ||
| direct address vocative | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton |
| to, for dative | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton | hekaton |
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.
17 occurrences, every one of them listed
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Matthew 13:8… kalan kai dōate karpon, hem men hekaton hem de hexēkonta hem de triakonta.… good soil and produced a crop — a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.
Matthew 13:23… dē karpoforatō kai poiatō hem men hekaton hem de hexēkonta hem de triakonta.… bears fruit and produces a crop — a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”
Matthew 18:12… vi dokatō? ean geneteia tino anthrōpo hekaton probateim kai planiteia henem ek auteiu, …… you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes …
Matthew 18:28… toiu sundouloiu autou hos ofeilate auto hekaton dēnarieim, kai kratarantos auton pnigate legarōntos; …… his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began …
Mark 4:8… triakonta kai henem hexēkonta kai henem hekaton.… thirtyfold, another sixtyfold, and another a hundredfold.”
Mark 4:20… triakonta kai henem hexēkonta kai henem hekaton.… a crop — thirtyfold, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold.”
Mark 6:40kai anapiptala prasiais prasiais kata hekaton kai kata pentēkonta.… they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.
Luke 15:4Tinos anthrōpos ek vu echarōntos hekaton probateim kai apolarantos ek auteiu henem …… man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them …
John 19:39“a hundred”… migmem smurnau kai aloau hōs litrain hekaton.… brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.
John 21:11“one hundred”… eis tan gēan mestem ichthoiu megoiu hekaton pentēkonta treis; kai tosoutoiu arōntoiu ouk …… It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many, the net was not torn.
Acts 1:15… ochlos onomeiu epi tem autem hōs hekaton eikosi;… brothers ( a gathering of about a hundred and twenty ) and said,
Revelation 7:4“one hundred”Kai akouama ton arithmon toiu sfragizorēntoiu, hekaton tesserakonta tessares chiliadais, sfragizorēntois ek pantau …And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the …
Revelation 14:1“one hundred”… tem orem Siōn, kai meta autou hekaton tesserakonta tessares chiliadais echarōntais tem onomem …… and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His …
Revelation 14:3“one hundred”… mathara tan ōdan ei mē tais hekaton tesserakonta tessares chiliadais, tois agorazorēntois apo …… one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
Revelation 21:17“one hundred”kai metrata tem teichem autau hekaton tesserakonta tessares pēchoiu, metrem anthrōpou, hem …And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the …
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Luke 16:6tos de legata; Hekaton batoin elaieu; tos de legata auto; …‘A hundred measures of olive oil,’ he answered …
Luke 16:7… de posem ofeilasō? tos de legata; Hekaton koroin sitou; legatō auto; Dechesar su …… And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take …