hexias

Strong’sG1838

condition, state, habit

stem hexi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.

† ἕξις, -εως, ἡ

(< ἔχω), [in LXX, cf. Si, prol. 9;]

habit, use, experience: He 5:14.†

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

Strong’s G1838 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhex'-is

habit, i.e. (by implication) practice

Fromfrom G2192;

King Jamesuse.

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

ἕξις, εως, ἡ,
(ἔχω):
I (ἔχω transitive) having, being in possession of, possession, ἐπιστήμης ἕ., opposed to κτῆσις, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to στέρησις,Refs 2nd c.AD+
I.2 in surgery, posture, Refs 5th c.BC+
II (ἔχω intransitive) a being in a certain state, a permanent condition as produced by practice (πρᾶξις), different from σχέσις (which is alterable) (see. below):
II.1 state or habit of body, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἕ. ὑγιεινή (so also Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, condition, ἐν ἕξει τοῦ δρᾶν Refs 5th c.BC+; outward appearance, ἡ ἕ. τοῦ σώματος κρείσσων LXX+2nd c.AD+; habit of a vine, Refs 4th c.BC+; of material objects, ὑπὸ μιᾶς ἕξεως συνέχεσθαι Refs 1st c.AD+
II.1.b medical, the system, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.2 state or habit of mind, ἕ. κακίης Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ ἕ., opposed to ἡ τῶν σωμάτων ἕ., Refs[same place]; πονηρᾶς ψυχῆς ἕξειRefs
II.2.b especially acquired habit, opposed to ἐνέργεια, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 trained habit, skill, Refs 5th c.BC+; τέχνη defined as ἕ. ἢ διάθεσις ἀπὸ παρατηρήσεως Refs 5th c.BC+ (Almost confined to Prose, butRefs 5th c.AD+

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.

practice1×

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	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	hexias	hexiais
object accusative	hexian1×ἕξιν	hexiain
direct address vocative	hexiar	hexiair
of, belonging to genitive	hexiau	hexiaiu
to, for dative	hexia	hexiai

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

hexistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

hexia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

hexian“practice”objectaccusative singular1×

Hebrews 5:14“practice”… tas stereas trofēas, toiu dia tan hexian teim aisthētērieim gumnazorēnteim echarōntoiu pros diakrisian …But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good …