adverb

pollakis

Greekπολλάκις (pollakis)

Strong’sG4178

many times, often

stem pollaki-18 times in the New Testamentin 9 of 27 books

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Matthew 17:15“often”kai legarōtos; Kurior, elēasar mu ton huion, hoti selēniazetō kai kakōs paschatō, pollakis gar piptatō eis tem purem kai pollakis eis tem hudōrem.“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.

Matthew 17:15“often”kai legarōtos; Kurior, elēasar mu ton huion, hoti selēniazetō kai kakōs paschatō, pollakis gar piptatō eis tem purem kai pollakis eis tem hudōrem.“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.

Mark 5:4“often”dia tem auton pollakis pedai kai halusiai dirē kai diaspirē hupo autou tain halusiain kai tain pedain suntribirē, kai oudenos ischuate auton damazara;Though he was often bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and shattered the shackles. Now there was no one with the strength to subdue him.

Mark 9:22“often”kai pollakis kai eis purem auton ballata kai eis hudōreim hina apolluateia auton; alla ei tinem dunesō, boēthasar ni splanchniziratos epi nin.“It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

John 18:2“often”oidatelē de kai Ioudaos tos paradōarōtos auton ton topon, hoti pollakis sunagita Iēsus ekei meta toiu mathētoiu autou.Now Judas His betrayer also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with His disciples.

Acts 26:11“often”kai kata pantain tain sunagōgain pollakis timōrarōtos autoin anankazame blasfēmarō, perissōs tē emmainerōtos autoi diōkame heōs kai eis tain exō politain.I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

Romans 1:13“often”ouk thelamō de vin agnoarō, adelfoir, hoti pollakis protithema erchara pros vin, kai kōluima achri tou deuro, hina tinon karpon echameia kai en vi kathōs kai en tei loipei ethnei.I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

2 Corinthians 8:22“often”sumpempana de autoi ton adelfon nu hon dokimazana en pollei pollakis spoudaion arōton, nuni de pollem spoudaioteron pepoithēsia polla ta eis vin.And we are sending along with them our brother who has proven his earnestness to us many times and in many ways, and now even more so by his great confidence in you.

2 Corinthians 11:23“often”diakonois Christou alō? parafronarōtos lalamō, huper mis; en kopoi perissoterōs, en fulakai perissoterōs, en plēgai huperballontōs, en thanatoi pollakis;Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

2 Corinthians 11:26“frequent”hodoiporiai pollakis, kindunoi potamoiu, kindunoi lēstoiu, kindunoi ek geneu, kindunoi ek ethneiu, kindunoi en polita, kindunoi en erēmia, kindunoi en thalassa, kindunoi en pseudadelfoi,In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,

2 Corinthians 11:27“many”kopo kai mochtho, en agrupniai pollakis, en limo kai dipse, en nēsteiai pollakis, en psuche kai gumnota;in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

2 Corinthians 11:27“often”kopo kai mochtho, en agrupniai pollakis, en limo kai dipse, en nēsteiai pollakis, en psuche kai gumnota;in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

Philippians 3:18“often”pollois gar peripatalō hoin pollakis legame vi, nun de kai klaiarōtos legamō, toin echthroin tou staurou tou Christou,For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

2 Timothy 1:16“often”dōatoia elesem tos kurios to Onēsiforou oiko, hoti pollakis min anapsuchata, kai tan halusian mu ouk epaischunita;May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.

Hebrews 6:7“often”gēas gar tas pinaratas ton epi autau ercherōton pollakis hueton, kai tiktarōtas botanan euthetan ekeinoi dia hoin kai geōrgitō, metalambatō eulogiau apo tou theou;For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.

Hebrews 9:25“many times”oude hina pollakis prosferateiō heauton, hōsper tos archierevos eiserchetō eis teim hagieim kata eniauton en haime allotrie,Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

Hebrews 9:26“many times”epei date auton pollakis paschara apo katabolau kosmou; nuni de hapax epi sunteleia toiu aiōnoiu eis athetēsian hamartau dia tau thusiau autou faneritē.Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Hebrews 10:11“again and again”Kai pantos men hierevos histanatē kata hēmeran leitourgarōtos kai tain autain pollakis prosferarōtos thusiain, hotinais oudepote dunelō periairara hamartain.Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.