Lexicon egkainia: dedication, renewal (of religious services) Original Word: ἐγκαίνια, ίων, τάPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: egkainia Phonetic Spelling: (eng-kah'-ee-nee-ah) Short Definition: a renewal, dedication Definition: a renewal, dedication; the feast of rededication. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originneut. pl. comp. from en and kainosDefinitiondedication, renewal (of religious services) NASB Translationfeast of the Dedication (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1456: ἐγκαίνιαἐγκαίνια ( T WH ἐανκαινια, see ἐν, III. 3), ἐγκαινιων, τά (from ἐν and καινός); only in Biblical and ecclesiastical writings (on the plural cf. Winers Grammar, § 27, 3; Buttmann, 23 (21)); dedication, consecration; thus, in 2 Esdr. 6:16, 17; Nehemiah 12:27 for חֲנֻכָּה; in particular ( Vulg.encaeaium, i. e. renovation], an 'annual feast celebrated eight days beginning on the 25th of Chislev (the middle of our December), instituted by Judas Maccabaeus ( ) in memory of the cleansing of the temple from the pollutions of Antiochus Epiphanes (αἱ ἡμέραι ἐγκαινισμοῦ τοῦ θυσιασθηριου, 1 Macc. 4:59): John 10:22. Cf. Winers RWB (also Riehm, HWB) under the word Kirchweihfest; Oehler in Herzog iv., p. 389; Grimm on 1 Macc. 1:54 1 Macc. 4:52; Dillmann in Schenkel iii., 534f; (BB. DD. (especially Kitto) under the word the).
Strong's dedication. Neuter plural of a presumed compound from en and kainos; innovatives, i.e. (specially) renewal (of religious services after the Antiochian interruption) -- dedication. see GREEK en see GREEK kainos |
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