hekaton · hundred

What it means

hekaton (ἑκατόν) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “hundred”.

One hundred.

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. The amount of ten tens, used to count sheep, debts, people or the harvest.

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

How it is translated

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

• hundred ×14
• hundredfold ×2
• hundreds ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Mark×3
• Luke×3
• John×2
• Acts×1
• Revelation×4

• Matthew 13:8

  And other seeds fell on the good soil and were producing fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

• Matthew 13:23

  And the one sown on the good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces, some a hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.”

• Matthew 18:12

  What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is going astray?

• Matthew 18:28

  But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him, he was choking him, saying, ‘Pay back whatever you owe!’

• Mark 4:8

  And other seeds fell into the good soil and were giving fruit, growing up and increasing, and were bearing, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.”

• Mark 4:20

  And those are the ones sown on the good soil, who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.”

• Mark 6:40

  And they sat down in rows, by hundreds and by fifties.

• Luke 15:4

  “What man among you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the lost one until he finds it?

• Luke 16:6

  And he said, ‘A hundred baths of olive oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’

• Luke 16:7

  Then he said to another, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He says to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

• John 19:39

  And Nicodemus also came, the one who had first come to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred litras.

• John 21:11

  So Simon Peter went up and hauled the net to land, full of large fish, a hundred fifty-three; and although there were so many, the net was not torn.

• Acts 1:15

  And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers and said (and there was a crowd of persons gathered together, about a hundred and twenty):

• Revelation 7:4

  And I heard the number of those who were sealed: a hundred forty-four thousand, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel.

• Revelation 14:1

  And I looked, and look, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred forty four thousand who had his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.

• Revelation 14:3

  And they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the hundred forty four thousand, who had been bought from the earth.

• Revelation 21:17

  And he measured its wall, a hundred forty four cubits, by human measure, which is also an angel’s.