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hapax

hapax is the ellipsis of hapax legomenon.

Meaning of hapax legomenon

Noun

hapax legomenon (plural hapax legomena or (rare) hapax legomenons)

  1. A word occurring only once in a given corpus.
    • άγνως is a New Testament hapax legomenon. άγνός occurs two other times in Paul, both occurrences are in 2 Cor.1999, Casey Wayne Davis, Oral Biblical Criticism: The Influence of the Principles of Orality on the Literary Structure of Paul's Epistle to the Philippians, page 89, footnote
    Synonyms:
    hapax

Forms of hapax

pluralhapaxes

Phrases with hapax

Questions about hapax

What is hapax the ellipsis of?
Hapax is the ellipsis of hapax legomenon.

Words near hapax in the dictionary

  1. hapantotypes
  2. Haparanda
  3. hapas
  4. hapatoma
  5. hapatotoxin
  6. hapax
  7. hapax legomena
  8. hapax legomenon
  9. hapax legomenons
  10. hapaxanth
  11. hapaxanthic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hapax (page history and authors); hapax legomenon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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