Strong's Greek · G3638

ὀκτώ

oktṓ

eight

Definition

"eight"

Derivation

a primary numeral;

Appears 10 times in Scripture

1 Peter 3:20

who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.

John 5:5

One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

Acts 9:33

There he found a man named Aeneas who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.

Luke 13:16

Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”

Luke 2:21

When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.

Luke 13:11

and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.

John 20:26

Eight days later, His disciples were once again inside with the doors locked, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”

Luke 9:28

About eight days after Jesus had said these things, He took with Him Peter, John, and James, and went up on a mountain to pray.

Luke 13:4

Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?

Acts 25:6

After spending no more than eight or ten days with them, Festus went down to Caesarea. The next day he sat on the judgment seat and ordered that Paul be brought in.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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