Six - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Six

[ 1,,G1803, hex ]
whence Eng. prefix, hex---, is used separately from other numerals in Matthew 17:1; Mark 9:2; Luke 4:25; Luke 13:14; John 2:6; John 12:1; Acts 11:12; Acts 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); Revelation 14:20.

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