hapax · once

What it means

hapax (ἅπαξ) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “once”.

Also once for all.

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. Once; "once for all".

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

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Corinthians×1
• Philippians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• Hebrews×8
• 1 Peter×1
• Jude×2

• 2 Corinthians 11:25

  Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have spent in the deep;

• Philippians 4:16

  for even in Thessalonica you sent help for my need both once and twice.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:18

  because we wanted to come to you —I, Paul, both once and twice— but Satan hindered us.

• Hebrews 6:4

  For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become sharers in the Holy Spirit,

• Hebrews 9:7

  but into the second goes only the high priest, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of ignorance of the people.

• 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 9:27

  And just as it is appointed for human beings to die once, and after this judgment,

• Hebrews 9:28

  so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await him, for salvation.

• Hebrews 10:2

  Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, once purified, would have no consciousness of sins any longer?

• Hebrews 12:26

  His voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying: Yet once more I will make not only the earth but also heaven quake.

• Hebrews 12:27

  And the phrase “Yet once more” indicates the removal of the things that are shaken, as things that have been made, so that the things that are not shaken may remain.

• 1 Peter 3:18

  Because the Messiah also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, so that he might bring you to God, put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

• Jude 1:3

  Beloved, while I was making every effort to write to you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you, urging you to contend for the faith once for all handed down to the saints.

• Jude 1:5

  But I want to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.