Strong's Concordance hexis: habit, practice Original Word: ἕξις, εως, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: hexis Phonetic Spelling: (hex'-is) Short Definition: condition, state, habit Definition: condition, state, habit, use, especially: good condition of body or soul. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1838: ἕξιςἕξις, ἕξεως, ἡ (ἔχω, future ἕξω), a habit, whether of body or of mind (Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, others); a power acquired by custom, practice, use ("firma quaedam facilitas, quae apud Graecos ἕξις nominatur," Quintilian 10, 1 at the beginning); so Hebrews 5:14 (ἐν τούτοις ἱκανήν ἕξιν περιποιησάμενος, Sir. prol. 7; ἕξιν ἔχειν γραμματικης, Polybius 10, 47, 7; ἐν τοῖς πολεμικοῖς, 21, 7, 3; ἐν ἀστρολογία μεγίστην, Diodorus 2, 31; λογικήν ἕξιν περιποιουμενος, Philo, aleg. legg. 1, 4). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance habit, practice, useFrom echo; habit, i.e. (by implication) practice -- use. see GREEK echo Forms and Transliterations έξει έξεως εξιν έξιν ἕξιν έξις εξισούμενον exin hexin héxinLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 18381 Occurrence ἕξιν — 1 Occ. Hebrews 5:14 N-AFS GRK: διὰ τὴν ἕξιν τὰ αἰσθητήρια NAS: who because of practice have KJV: [even] those who by reason of use have INT: on account of the habit the senses |