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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: ἕξ

(Strong's #1803 — Noun — hex — hex )

whence Eng. prefix, hex---, is used separately from other numerals in Matthew 17:1; Mark 9:2; Luke 4:25; 13:14; John 2:6; 12:1; Acts 11:12; 18:11; James 5:17; Revelation 4:8 . It sometimes suggests incompleteness, in comparison with the perfect number seven.

Notes: (1) In combination with tessarakonta, "forty," it occurs in John 2:20; with hebdomekonta, "seventy," Acts 27:37 , "(two hundred) threescore and sixteen." (2) It forms the first syllable of hexekonta, "sixty" (see below) and hexakosioi, "six hundred," Revelation 13:18 (see SIXTY , Note); 14:20.

Bibliography Information
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Six'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​s/six.html. 1940.
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