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Lexicon :: Strong's G1538 - hekastos

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ἕκαστος
Transliteration
hekastos (Key)
Pronunciation
hek'-as-tos
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
As if a superlative of hekas (afar)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἕκαστος hékastos, hek'-as-tos; as if a superlative of ἕκας hékas (afar); each or every:—any, both, each (one), every (man, one, woman), particularly.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 83x

The KJV translates Strong's G1538 in the following manner: every man (39x), every one (20x), every (17x), miscellaneous (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 83x
The KJV translates Strong's G1538 in the following manner: every man (39x), every one (20x), every (17x), miscellaneous (7x).

  1. each, every

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἕκαστος hékastos, hek'-as-tos; as if a superlative of ἕκας hékas (afar); each or every:—any, both, each (one), every (man, one, woman), particularly.
STRONGS G1538:
ἕκαστος, -η, -ον, Sept. for אִישׁ, [from Homer down], each, every;
a. joined to a substantive: ἕκαστον δένδρον, Luke 6:44; ἑκάστῳ στρατιώτῃ, John 19:23; κατὰ μῆνα ἕκαστον, every month, Revelation 22:2 [not Rec.]; καθ’ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν, Hebrews 3:13; cf. Winers Grammar, 111 (106); Buttmann, § 127, 30. preceded by εἷς, Latin unusquisque, every one: with a substantive, Ephesians 4:16; Revelation 22:2 Rec.
b. used substantively: John 7:53 [Rec.]; Acts 4:35; Romans 2:6; Galatians 6:4, etc.; once plural ἕκαστοι: Revelation 6:11 Rec. With a partitive genitive added: ἡμῶν, Romans 14:12; ὑμῶν, Luke 13:15; 1 Corinthians 1:12; Hebrews 6:11; αὐτῶν, John 6:7 [R G]; τῶν σπερμάτων, 1 Corinthians 15:38. εἷς ἕκαστος, every one (see εἷς, 4 b.): without a partitive genitive, Acts 20:31; Colossians 4:6; with a partitive genitive, Luke 4:40; Acts 2:3; Acts 17:27; 1 Corinthians 12:18, etc. ἕκαστος, when it denotes individually, every one of many, is often added appositively to nouns and pronouns and verbs in the plural number, (Matthiae, ii., p. 764f; [Winers Grammar, 516 (481); Buttmann, 131 (114)]): ἡμεῖς ἀκούομεν ἕκαστος, Acts 2:8; σκορπισθῆτε ἕκαστος, John 16:32; ἐπορεύοντο πάντες..., ἕκαστος..., Luke 2:3; add, Acts 3:26; 1 Peter 4:10; Revelation 5:8; Revelation 20:13; likewise εἷς ἕκαστος, Acts 2:6; Acts 21:26; ὑμεῖς οἱ καθ’ ἕνα ἕκαστος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γυναῖκα ἀγαπάτω, you one by one, each one of you severally, Ephesians 5:33. In imitation of the Hebrew, ἕκαστος τῷ ἀδελφῷ αὐτοῦ (לְאָחִיו אִישׁ, Genesis 26:31), Matthew 18:35; μετὰ τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ (אֶל־רֵעֵהוּ אִישׁ, Judges 6:29, etc.), Ephesians 4:25, cf. Hebrews 8:11 Rec.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
26:31
Judges
6:29
Matthew
18:35
Luke
2:3; 4:40; 6:44; 13:15
John
6:7; 7:53; 16:32; 19:23
Acts
2:3; 2:6; 2:8; 3:26; 4:35; 17:27; 20:31; 21:26
Romans
2:6; 14:12
1 Corinthians
1:12; 12:18; 15:38
Galatians
6:4
Ephesians
4:16; 4:25; 5:33
Colossians
4:6
Hebrews
3:13; 6:11; 8:11
1 Peter
4:10
Revelation
5:8; 6:11; 20:13; 22:2; 22:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1538 matches the Greek ἕκαστος (hekastos),
which occurs 21 times in 17 verses in '1Sa' in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10 - So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and every man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter, and there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:4 - And when they arose early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of the LORD. The head of Dagon and both the palms of its hands were broken off on the threshold; only Dagon’s torso[fn] was left of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:22 - So the LORD said to Samuel, “Heed their voice, and make them a king.” And Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Every man go to his city.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:9 - (Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he spoke thus: “Come, let us go to the seer”; for he who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:11 - And it happened, when all who knew him formerly saw that he indeed prophesied among the prophets, that the people said to one another, “What is this that has come upon the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:25 - Then Samuel explained to the people the behavior of royalty, and wrote it in a book and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 - Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the mountains of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent away, every man to his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:20 - But all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen each man’s plowshare, his mattock, his ax, and his sickle;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:34 - Then Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people, and say to them, ‘Bring me here every man’s ox and every man’s sheep, slaughter them here, and eat; and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.’ ” So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night, and slaughtered it there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:15 - “but you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever, no, not when the LORD has cut off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41 - As soon as the lad had gone, David arose from a place toward the south, fell on his face to the ground, and bowed down three times. And they kissed one another; and they wept together, but David more so.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:10 - Then Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who break away each one from his master.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:13 - Then David said to his men, “Every man gird on his sword.” So every man girded on his sword, and David also girded on his sword. And about four hundred men went with David, and two hundred stayed with the supplies.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:23 - “May the LORD repay every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD delivered you into my hand today, but I would not stretch out my hand against the LORD’s anointed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:3 - So David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, each man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:6 - Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:22 - Then all the wicked and worthless men[fn] of those who went with David answered and said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except for every man’s wife and children, that they may lead them away and depart.”
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