πολλάκις

pollákis · Greek · Strong's G4178 · 18 occurrences

The KJV renders 3 different Hebrew and Greek words as “often”

What it means

many times, i.e. frequently

multiplicative adverb from G4183 (πολύς);

How the KJV renders it

often, entimes, times

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“often”

also renders pyknós (G4437), rab (H7227)

“times”

also renders shebaʻ (H7651), shibʻâthayim (H7659)

Answers that weigh this word

Where it appears

18 occurrences in the Greek text, first 16 verses shown.

2 Corinthians 8:22 · ADV

We have sent with them our brother whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

2 Corinthians 11:23 · ADV

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

2 Corinthians 11:26 · ADV

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

2 Corinthians 11:27 · ADV

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

2 Timothy 1:16 · ADV

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

Acts 26:11 · ADV

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Hebrews 6:7 ADVHebrews 9:25 ADVHebrews 9:26 ADVHebrews 10:11 ADVJohn 18:2 ADVMatthew 17:15 ADVMark 5:4 ADVMark 9:22 ADVPhilippians 3:18 ADVRomans 1:13 ADV

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