noun · masculine
eniautos
Greekἐνιαυτός (eniautos)
Strong’sG1763
a year
stem eniaut-14 times in the New Testamentin 7 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
ἐνιαυτός, -οῦ, ὁ
[in LXX for שָׁנֶה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1763 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiden-ee-ow-tos'
a year
Fromprolongation from a primary ἔνος (a year);
King Jamesyear.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | eniautos | eniautois |
| object accusative | eniauton8×ἐνιαυτὸν | eniautoin2×ἐνιαυτούς |
| direct address vocative | eniautor | eniautoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | eniautou4×ἐνιαυτοῦ | eniautoiu |
| to, for dative | eniauto | eniautoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
eniauto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
14 occurrences, every one of them listed
eniauton“year”objectaccusative singular8×
Luke 4:19“year”kērussara eniauton kuriou dekton.to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Acts 11:26“year”kai heuriskaratos agata eis Antiocheian. gineta de autoi kai eniauton holon sunagira en ta ekklēsa kai didaskara ochlon hikanon, chrēmatizara tē prōtōs en Antiocheia toin mathētoin Christianoin.and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.
Acts 18:11“year”kathizata de eniauton kai mēnoin hex didaskarōtos en autoi ton logon tou theou.So Paul stayed for a year and a half, teaching the word of God among the Corinthians.
Hebrews 9:25“year”oude hina pollakis prosferateiō heauton, hōsper tos archierevos eiserchetō eis teim hagieim kata eniauton en haime allotrie,Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.
Hebrews 10:1“year”Skian gar echarōtos tos nomos teiu mellarōteiu agatheiu, ouk autan tan eikōnan teiu pragmeiu, kata eniauton tai autai thusiai hain prosferalō eis tem diēnekem oudepote dunetō toin prosercherōtoin teleiara;For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
Hebrews 10:3“year,”alla en autai anamnēsias hamartaiu kata eniauton,Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
James 4:13“year”Agasōr nun toir legarōtoir; Sēmeron ē aurion poreueni eis hōdan tan politan kai poiani ekei eniauton kai emporeueni kai kerdainani;Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
Revelation 9:15“year”kai luila tois tessares angelois tois hetoimazirētois eis tan hōran kai hēmeran kai mēnon kai eniauton, hina apokteinaleia tem tritem toiu anthrōpoiu.So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
eniautou“year”of, belonging togenitive singular4×
John 11:49“year”henos de tinos ek autoiu Kaiafaos, archierevos arōtos tou eniautou ekeinou, legata autoi; Vis ouk oidavē oudenem,But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
John 11:51“year”houtem de apo heautou ouk legata, alla archierevos arōtos tou eniautou ekeinou profēteuata hoti mellate Iēsus apothnēskarō huper teu ethneu,Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,
John 18:13“year”kai agala pros Hannaon prōtem; ate gar pentheros tou Kaiafaou, hos ate archierevos tou eniautou ekeinou;They brought Him first to Annas, who was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.
Hebrews 9:7“year”eis de tan deuteran hapax tou eniautou monos tos archierevos, ouk chōris haimeu, hem prosferatō huper heautou kai teiu tou laou agnoēmeiu,But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
eniautoin“years”objectaccusative plural2×
Galatians 4:10“years”hēmerain paratērevō kai mēnoin kai kairoin kai eniautoin.You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
James 5:17“years”Ēliaos anthrōpos ate homoiopathos ni, kai proseucha proseucheta teu mē brechara, kai ouk brechata epi tau gēau eniautoin treis kai mēnoin hex;Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.