adjective

Greekἕξ (hex)

Biblang

hex

Strong’sG1803

six

stem hex-13 times in the New Testamentin 7 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

Six, the cardinal number ¹²³⁴.

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

ἕξ, οἱ, αἱ, τά

indecl.,

six: Mt 17:1, Lk 13:14, al.

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1803 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhex

six

Froma primary numeral;

King Jamessix.

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

ἕξ,
οἱ, αἱ, τά, indeclinable, six, Refs 8th c.BC+; ϝέξ Refs; compare ἕκπους.
2 ἕξ, τό, the six in ἀστράγαλοι used as dice, ={Κῷον}, Refs 2nd c.AD+. (Cf. Sanskrit [snull]á[tnull]. Avest. xšvaš, Latin sex, Welsh chwech, 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.

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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	hex	hex	hex	hex	hex	hex
object accusative	hex	hex		hex	hex
direct address vocative	hex	hex		hex	hex
of, belonging to genitive	hex	hex	hex	hex	hex	hex
to, for dative	hex	hex	hex	hex	hex	hex

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

hexstem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

hexēs — ἑξῆς, next in order, the next day

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

13 occurrences, every one of them listed

hex12×

Matthew 17:1Kai meta hēmerain hex paralabatō tos Iēsus ton Petron kai …After six days Jesus took with Him Peter …

Mark 9:2Kai meta hēmerain hex paralabatō tos Iēsus ton Petron kai …After six days Jesus took with Him Peter …

Luke 4:25“six”… ouranos epi eteim treis kai mēnoin hex, hōs geneta limos megos epi pantan …… when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

John 2:6ale de ekei lithinais hudriais hex kata ton katharismon toiu Ioudaioiu keiorōntais, …Now six stone water jars had been set …

John 2:20“six”legala oun tois Ioudaiois; Tesserakonta kai hex etei oikodomita tos naos houtos, kai …“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are …

John 12:1Tos oun Iēsus pro hex hēmeraiu teu pascha erchata eis Bēthanian, …Six days before the Passover, Jesus came …

Acts 11:12… erchala de sun mi kai tois hex adelfois houtois, kai eiserchana eis ton …… to accompany them without hesitation. These six brothers also went with me, and …

Acts 18:11“six”kathizata de eniauton kai mēnoin hex didaskarōntos en autoi ton logon tou …So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching the word of God among the Corinthians.

Acts 27:37“six”… psuchais en te ploie diakosioi hebdomēkonta hex.… of us on board.

James 5:17“six”… tau gēau eniautoin treis kai mēnoin hex;… rain on the land for three and a half years.

Revelation 4:8… kata henem auteiu echarōntos ana pterugain hex, kuklothen kai esōthen gemalō ofthalmoiu; kai …… of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes …

Revelation 13:18“six.”… kai tos arithmos auteu hexakosioi hexēkonta hex.… it is the number of a man, and that number is 666.

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Luke 13:14… tos Iēsus, legate to ochlo hoti Hex hēmerais alō en hai datō ergazorō; …… healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the …