G1456 – egkainia – ἐγκαίνια – dedication
- Strong’s ID:
- G1456
- Greek Word:
- ἐγκαίνια
- Transliteration:
- egkainia
- Pronunciation:
- eng-kah’-ee-nee-ah
- Part of Speech:
- noun neuter
- Usage Count:
- 1
- Search:
- Find “egkainia” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
neuter plural of a presumed compound from G1722 and G2537; innovatives, i.e. (specially) renewal (of religious services after the Antiochian interruption):—dedication.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) dedication, consecration
1a) in particular the annual feast celebrated eight days beginning in the 25th of Chislev (middle of our December), instituted by Judas Maccabaeus [164 BC] in memory of the cleansing of the temple from the pollution of Antiochus Epiphanes
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.