ἐγκαίνιαenkaínia
innovatives, i.e. (specially) renewal (of religious services after the Antiochian interruption)
Greek (New Testament) · G1456
Meanings
dedication, consecration; thus in 2 Esdr. vi. 16, 17; Neh. xii. 27 for חֲנֻכָּה; in particular, [Vulg. encaenium i. e. renovation], an annual feast celebrated eight days beginning on the 25th of Chislev (middle of our December), instituted by Judas Maccabaeus [B. C. 164] in memory of the cleansing of the temple from the pollutions of Antiochus Epiphanes (αἱ ἡμέραι ἐγκαινισμοῦ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου, 1 Macc. iv. 59): Jn. x. 22. Cf. Win. RWB. [also Riehm, HWB.] s. v. Kirchweihfest
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 1 times in the Bible.
- John 10:22 It was now winter, and Jesus was in Jerusalem at the time of Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication.
Source: J. H. Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain.