Biblical Greek

greek #1838 - ἕξις, εως, ἡ hexis (habit)

Original Word:	ἕξις, εως, ἡ
Transliteration:	hexis
Definition:	habit, practice
Part of Speech:	Noun, Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(hex'-is)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

habit, practice, use

From echo; habit, i.e. (by implication) practice -- use.

see GREEK echo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

Strong's 1838: ἕξις

ἕξις, 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 (ἐντούτοιςἱκανήνἕξινπεριποιησάμενος, Sir. prol. 7; ἕξινἔχεινγραμματικης, Polybius 10, 47, 7; ἐντοῖςπολεμικοῖς, 21, 7, 3; ἐνἀστρολογίαμεγίστην, Diodorus 2, 31; λογικήνἕξινπεριποιουμενος, Philo, aleg. legg. 1, 4).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Greek: 1838. ἕξις (hexis) — 1 Occurrence
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

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