Palabra Original: ἐγκαίνια, ίων, τά
Parte del Discurso: Sustantivo, neutro
Transliteración: egkainia
Ortografía Fonética: (eng-kah'-ee-nee-ah)
Definición: dedicación, renovación (de los servicios religiosos).
RVR 1909 Número de Palabras: dedicación (1).
Original Word: ἐγκαίνια, ίων, τά
Part 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.STRONGS NT 1456: ἐγκαίνια

ἐγκαίνια (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 Exhaustive Concordance

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

Forms and Transliterations

εγκαίνια ἐγκαίνια εγκαινίοις ενκαινια ἐνκαίνια enkainia en'kaínia

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