Trivia: How many verses contain hapax legomena?

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Stephen Hughes
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Trivia: How many verses contain hapax legomena?

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Hapax legomena (ἅπαξ λεγόμενα) are words that only occur once in the Greek literature. Of course sometimes the words are later "copied", so then perhaps they could be said to no longer be used only once, but the term is usually applied to the situation were a word is only found once in ancient writers.

Do any verses contain more than one hapax legomenon (ἅπαξ λεγόμενον)? AND / OR
Which New Testament hapax legomena have no related parts of speech (eg. a noun has a verb or an adjective related to it)?

[Notes:
  • This question is about words that occur once in the greater body of ancient Greek literature (including the New Testament), it is not about which words occur once in the New Testament (as an isolated body of literature) such as was discussed on the logos community forum early in 2013.
  • If participants would like to say that words like ἐπιούσιος (actually a δὶς λεγόμενον) are hapax legomena because they occur in the same context in different places, then that could be okay, so long as they are consistent to their own priciples and accurate within their own (stated or implied) definitions.
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Γελᾷ δ' ὁ μωρός, κἄν τι μὴ γέλοιον ᾖ
(Menander, Γνῶμαι μονόστιχοι 108)
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