oktō · eight

What it means

oktō (ὀκτώ) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “eight”.

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 number that comes after seven.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

How it is translated

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

• eight ×7
• eighteen ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Luke×3
• John×2
• Acts×2
• 1 Peter×1

• Luke 2:21

  And when eight days were completed for his circumcision, his name was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

• Luke 9:28

  Now it happened, about eight days after these words, that taking along Peter and John and James, he went up onto the mountain to pray.

• Luke 13:16

  And this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan bound, look, for eighteen years, ought she not to be released from this bond on the day of the Sabbath?”

• John 5:5

  A certain man was there who had been in his illness thirty-eight years.

• John 20:26

  And after eight days his disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Jesus comes, though the doors had been locked, and stood in the middle and said, “Peace to you.”

• Acts 9:33

  And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, lying on a mat for eight years, who was paralyzed.

• Acts 25:6

  And after staying among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day, sitting on the judgment seat, he ordered Paul to be brought.

• 1 Peter 3:20

  who had once disobeyed, when the patience of God was waiting in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.