pollakis · often

What it means

pollakis (πολλάκις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “often”.

Many times.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Again and again, on numerous occasions.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• often ×15
• many times ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×2
• John×1
• Acts×1
• Romans×1
• 2 Corinthians×5
• Philippians×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×4

• Matthew 17:15

  and saying, “Lord, have mercy on my son, because he is moonstruck and suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire and often into the water.

• Mark 5:4

  because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

• Mark 9:22

  and often it has thrown him both into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us!”

• John 18:2

  Now Judas, who was handing him over, also knew the place, because Jesus had often gathered there with his disciples.

• Acts 26:11

  And throughout all the synagogues, often punishing them, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged against them I pursued them even to foreign cities.

• Romans 1:13

  Now I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that often I intended to come to you (and I have been prevented until now), so that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among the rest of the nations.

• 2 Corinthians 8:22

  And we are sending with them our brother, whom we have often tested in many things and found to be earnest, but now much more earnest because of his great confidence in you.

• 2 Corinthians 11:23

  Are they servants of the Messiah? —I am speaking as one out of his mind— I am more so: in labors far more, in imprisonments far more, in beatings beyond measure, in deaths often.

• 2 Corinthians 11:26

  on journeys often, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own people, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;

• 2 Corinthians 11:27

  in labor and toil, in sleepless nights often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• Philippians 3:18

  For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now I tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of the Messiah,

• 2 Timothy 1:16

  May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chain;

• Hebrews 6:7

  For land that drinks the rain that often falls on it, and produces vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also cultivated, receives a blessing from God;

• Hebrews 9:25

  nor did he enter to offer himself many times, as the high priest enters into the Holy Place every year with blood not his own,

• Hebrews 9:26

  for then it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times since the foundation of the world; but now once at the end of the ages he has been revealed for the setting aside of sin by his sacrifice.

• Hebrews 10:11

  And every priest stands daily ministering and offering many times the same sacrifices, which can never remove sins.

And 2 more times.