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Definition of Hapax
1. a word that occurs only once [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hapax
Literary usage of Hapax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Witness of the Vulgate, Peshitta and Septuagint to the Text of Zephaniah by Sidney Zandstra (1909)
"2" The word 43n seems to be feminine in this verse; in the next verse it is
masculine, nu is found only in this verse; the usual form is mw. m3 is a hapax ..."
2. The Pastoral Epistles by John Henry Bernard (1906)
"There are 77 hapax legomena in 1 Tim., 49 in 2 Tim., and 29 in Titus (all such
words are indicated by an asterisk in the Index ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"But it is equally certain that the negative argument from the hapax legomena ...
Indeed, the difficulty due to the hapax legomena and that due to the mental ..."
4. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1885)
"Why should such a hapax legomenon be rejected on this ground, any more than the
hapax legomenon " spirit of Jesus," which is now all but universally ..."
5. The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians: With Map by George Gillanders Findlay (1904)
"To the Thessalonian hapax- legomena 24 words may be added which are peculiar in
... This raises the total number of Pauline hapax- legomena found in 1 and 2 ..."
6. The Pastoral Epistles: With Introduction and Notes by John Henry Bernard (1899)
"This shews that any argument based on the mere fact that hapax legomena occur in
very large numbers in any given work must be applied with great caution, ..."
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