OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12422

hapax legomenon

/ˌhæ.pæks ləˈɡɒ.məˌnɒn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hápax • legomena hápax
A word occurring only once in a given corpus.
There is a lovely technical term for a word that appears once in a body of text: a hapax legomenon (plural: hapax legomena), Greek for “once said.” The term comes from philology, t…
άγνως is a New Testament hapax legomenon. άγνός occurs two other times in Paul, both occurrences are in 2 Cor.
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