hex · six

What it means

hex (ἕξ) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “six”.

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 that is one more than five.

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

Related words

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

Where it appears

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

• Matthew 17:1

  And after six days Jesus takes along Peter and James and John his brother, and leads them up onto a high mountain by themselves.

• Mark 9:2

  And after six days Jesus takes along Peter and James and John, and leads them up onto a high mountain by themselves alone. And he was transfigured before them,

• Luke 4:25

  But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in the days of Elijah in Israel, when heaven was shut for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land;

• Luke 13:14

  But the synagogue leader, indignant because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, answered and was saying to the crowd, “There are six days in which one must work; so come on them and be cured, and not on the day of the Sabbath.”

• John 2:6

  Now there were six stone water jars standing there for the purification of the Jews, each holding two or three measures.

• John 2:20

  So the Jews said, “This sanctuary was built in forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?”

• John 12:1

  So six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

• Acts 11:12

  And the Spirit told me to go with them, without hesitating at all. And these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the man’s house.

• Acts 18:11

  And he settled there a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.

• Acts 27:37

  And in all we were two hundred seventy-six persons in the ship.

• James 5:17

  Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

• Revelation 4:8

  And the four living creatures, each of them having six wings apiece, are full of eyes all around and within; and they have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God the Almighty, who was and who is and who is coming.”

• Revelation 13:18

  Here is wisdom. Let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a human being; and its number is six hundred sixty six.