What does ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta) mean in the Bible?
ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta) is a Greek word meaning "seventy".
Greek · G1440
ἑβδομήκοντα
Seventy
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ἑβδομήκοντα G1440
Pronunciation hebdomḗkonta
What does ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta) mean in the Bible?
ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta) is a Greek word meaning "seventy".
Full entry for ἑβδομήκοντα (G1440) · Open the biblical lexicon
Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G1440?
The BSB source-word alignment has 5 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include seventy-two (2), . . . (1), seventy (1), seventy-five (1).
Where does ἑβδομήκοντα (hebdomḗkonta) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 10:1. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (3), Luke (2).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It seventy-two 2× Luke 10:1, Luke 10:17
. . . 1× Acts 27:37
seventy 1× Acts 23:23
seventy-five 1× Acts 7:14
Show sample aligned rows
Luke 10:1 ἑβδομήκοντα to seventy-two Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural Luke 10:17 ἑβδομήκοντα to seventy-two Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural Acts 7:14 ἑβδομήκοντα to seventy-five Adjective - Dative Feminine Plural Acts 23:23 ἑβδομήκοντα to seventy Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural Acts 27:37 ἑβδομήκοντα to . . . Adjective - Nominative Feminine Plural
Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Luke 10:1
Aligned rows 5
Books represented 2
Luke 2 Acts 3
Source forms
ἑβδομήκοντα 5x hebdomēkonta Luke 10:1, Luke 10:17, Acts 7:14, Acts 23:23
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural 2x Luke 10:1, Acts 23:23
Adjective - Dative Feminine Plural 1x Acts 7:14
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Plural 1x Acts 27:37
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural 1x Luke 10:17
Evidence Summary
Greek word. seventy
Strong's G1440
Lexical occurrences 5 verses Greek text appearances 5 times Word forms 4 forms 5 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
seventy
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
5 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Luke 10:1 Numeral
ἑβδομήκοντα, ebdomhkonta
seventy
Read verse Luke 10:17 Numeral
ἑβδομήκοντα ebdomhkonta
seventy
Read verse Acts 7:14 Numeral
ἑβδομήκοντα ebdomhkonta
seventy
Read verse Acts 23:23 Numeral
ἑβδομήκοντα, ebdomhkonta
seventy
Read verse Acts 27:37 Numeral
ἑβδομηκονταέξ. ebdomhkontaex
seventy
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 4 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 4 Aligned forms 5 Case pattern Accusative (2) Number pattern Plural (5)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Plural · Masculine Luke 10:17 1×
Nominative · Plural · Feminine Acts 27:37 1×
Dative · Plural · Feminine Acts 7:14 1×
Accusative · Plural · Masculine Luke 10:1 · Acts 23:23 2×
Word Origins
ἑβδομήκοντα is built from these roots:
Part of These Phrases
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Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain