Lexical Summary enkainia: dedication, renewal (of religious services) Original Word: ἐγκαίνιαTransliteration: enkainia Phonetic Spelling: (eng-kah'-ee-nee-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Short Definition: dedication, renewal (of religious services) Meaning: dedication, renewal (of religious services) Strong's 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 Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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 ( |
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