Pollakis πολλάκις

Pollakis (Greek πολλάκις, Strong's G4178) is a Greek adverb meaning “often”. It occurs 18 times in 16 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Pollakis, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

• Matthew 17:15
  Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.“Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.

Mark

• Mark 5:4
  Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.Though he was often bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and shattered the shackles. Now there was no one with the strength to subdue him.
• Mark 9:22
  And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.“It often throws him into the fire or into the water, trying to kill him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

John

• John 18:2
  And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.Now Judas His betrayer also knew the place, because Jesus had often met there with His disciples.

Acts

• Acts 26:11
  And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

Romans

• Romans 1:13
  Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

2 Corinthians

• 2 Corinthians 8:22
  And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.And we are sending along with them our brother whose earnestness has been proven many times and in many ways, and now even more so by his great confidence in you.
• 2 Corinthians 11:23
  Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
• 2 Corinthians 11:26
  In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,
• 2 Corinthians 11:27
  In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

Philippians

• Philippians 3:18
  (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

2 Timothy

• 2 Timothy 1:16
  The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.

Hebrews

• Hebrews 6:7
  For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God.
• Hebrews 9:25
  Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
• 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.Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
• Hebrews 10:11
  And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).