Sixth
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hektos means sixth, the ordinal marker for something counted in sixth place, a sixth hour, a sixth month, a sixth seal, or another sixth item in sequence. The New Testament uses the word in ordinary time markers, in birth-announcement chronology, in scenes of Jesus' weariness and crucifixion, in Peter's prayer hour, and in Revelation's ordered visions.
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hektos means sixth, the ordinal marker for something counted in sixth place, a sixth hour, a sixth month, a sixth seal, or another sixth item in sequence. The New Testament uses the word in ordinary time markers, in birth-announcement chronology, in scenes of Jesus' weariness and crucifixion, in Peter's prayer hour, and in Revelation's ordered visions.
The BSB source-word alignment has 14 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include sixth (6), [the] sixth (3), the sixth (2), [the] sixth [hour] (1), From [the] sixth (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 20:5. Its strongest book concentrations include Revelation (5), Luke (3), John (2), Matthew (2).
Hektos means sixth, the ordinal marker for something counted in sixth place, a sixth hour, a sixth month, a sixth seal, or another sixth item in sequence. The New Testament uses the word in ordinary time markers, in birth-announcement chronology, in scenes of Jesus' weariness and crucifixion, in Peter's prayer hour, and in Revelation's ordered visions. The word does not create one hidden theology of the number six across every passage.
It helps readers notice counted time, ordered sequence, and narrative placement. Pastorally, hektos teaches careful attention to when a scene occurs and how Scripture orders events under God's providence, without turning every sixth reference into symbolism.
Hektos marks sixth place in counted sequence. These witnesses show the sixth month in Luke's infancy narrative, the sixth hour in Jesus' weariness and crucifixion darkness, Peter's sixth-hour prayer, and the sixth seal in Revelation's ordered judgment vision.
In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,
Luke locates Gabriel's visit in the sixth month. The word helps order the relation between Elizabeth's pregnancy and Mary's announcement.
Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.
The sixth month becomes confirming evidence in Gabriel's message. God is already at work before Mary sees the sign.
Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
John's sixth-hour marker places Jesus' weariness at the well. The time detail grounds a personal encounter in ordinary human fatigue.
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
Matthew marks the crucifixion darkness from the sixth to the ninth hour. The ordinal serves the solemn timing of the passion.
The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
Acts uses the sixth hour as the setting for Peter's prayer before the Gentile mission opens further.
And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
Revelation uses sixth in an ordered seal sequence. The word marks placement within the vision's progression.
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This word appears as a noun across 5 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.
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Hektos is a modest word, but modest words often train careful readers. Luke's sixth-month references place Mary and Elizabeth inside God's already-moving plan. John 4's sixth hour lets us see the incarnate Son weary at a well before a Samaritan woman meets Him. Matthew's sixth hour marks the darkness that falls during the crucifixion. Acts 10 sets Peter's prayer at the sixth hour before a Gentile household receives apostolic witness.
Revelation's sixth seal belongs to a numbered sequence opened by the Lamb. The preacher should not inflate the number six into a controlling symbol, but neither should he ignore ordered time. God works in counted moments, appointed sequences, and ordinary hours.
Matt.27.45
Hektos is an ordinal adjective. It identifies sequence rather than supplying the meaning of the sequence by itself; the passage must explain whether the sixth marker is chronology, position, or vision order.
Scripture often orders days, hours, months, feasts, and visions with numbered markers. The New Testament continues that habit, showing God's acts in time without making every number carry the same symbolic burden.
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