Lexicon
ἕκτος
hektos
G1623
G:A Greek

sixth

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Greek
Language

Hektos marks the sixth position in a sequence, whether an hour, month, seal, angel, bowl, or foundation stone.

The term consistently marks the sixth place within an ordered sequence: a time marker such as an hour or month, and numbered items such as a seal, angel, bowl, or foundation stone. The supplied forms vary by case, gender, and number context, while the observed ordinal use remains the same.

Senses in use

  1. Sixth position in an ordered series · dominant

    In Acts 10:9 and John 4:6, the feminine forms occur with the hour in scenes set around a specified point of the day; the APB renders each clause with “the sixth hour.” In Luke 1:26 the dative masculine form marks the month in which Gabriel was sent, while Revelation 6:12, Revelation 9:13, Revelation 16:12, and Revelation 21:20 place a seal, angel, bowl, and stone at the sixth point of their respective series.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the ordinal explicitly as “sixth,” including “the sixth hour,” “the sixth month,” “the sixth seal,” and “the sixth angel.” These renderings confirm the verse-level sequence without independently fixing every syntactic connection of the Greek form.

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