Strong G530ἅπαξ

once

Transliteration: hapax
Pronunciation: hap'-ax
Morphology: Greek Adverb

Definition

Probably from G537; one (or a single) time (numerically or conclusively): - once.

Detailed definition

ἅπαξ
adv., [in LXX for אֶחָד, פַּעַם;]
__(a) once: 2Co.11:25, Heb_9:26-27; ἔτι ἅ., Heb.12:26-27; ἅ. τ. ἐνιαυτοῦ, Heb.9:7; καί ἅ. κ. δίς, twice: Php.4:16, 1Th.2:18;
__(b) once for all: Heb.6:4 9:28 10:2, 1Pe.3:18, Ju 3 5 (MM, VGT, see word).†
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In the Bible

Strong G530 appears in 15 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

once15

First verses

2 Corinthians 11:25
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
Philippians 4:16
For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
1 Thessalonians 2:18
Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
Hebrews 6:4
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
Hebrews 9:7
But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
Hebrews 9:26
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Hebrews 9:28
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Hebrews 10:2
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Hebrews 12:26
Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
Hebrews 12:27
And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1 Peter 3:20
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Jude 1:3
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Jude 1:5
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

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ἅπαξ [ᾰπ],
adverb once, once only, once for all, first in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”, ὅτε τ᾽ ἄλλοι ἅ. θνῄσκουσ᾽ ἄνθρωποι 12.22)]; ἅ... ἀπὸ θυμὸν ὀλέσσαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 350; ἀπαλλάχθηθ᾽ ἅ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 600)]; οὐχ ἅ. μόνον more than once, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 211; ἅ... κοὐχὶ δίς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1208; πολλάκις καὶ οὐχὶ ἅ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.46; πολλάκις τε κοὐχ ἅ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1275; μὴ ἅ. ἀλλὰ πολλάκις 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.3, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 711a; μὴ δίς, ἀλλ᾽ ἅ. μόνον 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1299a10)]; of the self-creation of Νοῦς, τὴν ποίησιν αὑτοῦ.. ἅ. εἶναι[Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.8.21)]; ἅ. ἔτι yet this once, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1322)]; τὸ ἅ. τοῦτο at this moment, [LXX (LXX.2Ki.17.7)]; ἅ. δυοῖν ποδοῖν, i.e. two square feet [Refs ((1 x 2), opposed to δυοῖν δίς (2 x 2),)]four, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 82c.)]
2 with genitive, ἅ. τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ, ἔτεος ἑκάστου ἅ., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.59, 4.105; also ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ ἅ. [prev. author] 2.132.)]
3 once on a time, formerly, ἅ. καὶ ἅ.[LXX (LXX.Judg.20.30.)]
II without any notion of number, after conditional and temporal Particles, if once, when once, εἴπερ ἐσπείσω γ᾽ ἅ. if once you have made a treaty, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 307. compare 923; ἢν ἅ. ἁλῷ [prev. author] “V.” 898, compare “Av.” 342; ἂν ἅ. τις ἀποθάνῃ 4th c.BC: Amphis Comicus 8; ἐπειδήπερ γ᾽ ἅ. ἐμοὶ σεαυτὸν παραδέδωκας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1129; ἐπεὶ ἅ. ἐταράχθησαν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.44; ὡς ἅ. ἤρξατο 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.58; ἐπεὶ ἅ. αὐτοῖς φίλος ἐγένετο [prev. author] “An.” 1.9.10, compare 3.2.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 12.242; ὡς ἅ. ἐγκλήματα ἐταράχθη 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.151)]: so with participle, ἐπὶ γᾶν ἅ. πεσὸν... αἷμα[NT+5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1019(Lyric poetry); ἅ. θανόντος οὔτις ἔστ᾽ ἀνάστασις [prev. author] “Eu.” 648; ἅ. ἐλθόντες 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Parmenides” 165e, cf. NT.Heb.6.4, etc. (ἁ-)] = sṃ (compare εἷς); -παξ akin to πήγνυμι.)