I want you to know, brethren, that I often (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) intended to come to you (but have been prevented until now) so that I might have some fruit among you, just as among the rest of the Gentiles.

And I punished them often (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme; and since I was so vehemently angry at them, I pursued them even to foreign cities.

Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) met there with his disciples.

indeed frequently (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) it has even cast him into fire and into water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”

For he had often (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) been bound with shackles and chains, had been bound but the chains were torn apart by him the chains and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.

and said, “Lord, take pity on my son, because he is an epileptic and suffers terribly; for he often (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) falls into the fire and often (pollakis | πολλάκις | adverb) into the water.

And they will not teach each one his neighbor (politēn | πολίτην | acc sg masc) and each one his brother saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know me from the least of them to the greatest.

But Paul replied, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen (politēs | πολίτης | nom sg masc) of no obscure city. I beg you, let me speak to the people.”

But his citizens (politai | πολῖται | nom pl masc) hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this person to rule over us.’

So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens (politōn | πολιτῶν | gen pl masc) of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.