noun · neuter
enkainiem
Strong’sG1456
a renewal, dedication
stem enkaini-once in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἐγκαίνια, v.s. ἐνκ-.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1456 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saideng-kah'-ee-nee-ah
innovatives, i.e. (specially) renewal (of religious services after the Antiochian interruption)
Fromneuter plural of a presumed compound from G1722 and G2537;
King Jamesdedication.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(καινός) feast of renovation or consecration, LXX+2nd c.AD+; especially that established by Judas Maccabaeus at the reconsecration of the Temple, NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | enkainiem | enkainieim1×ἐγκαίνια |
| of, belonging to genitive | enkainieu | enkainieiu |
| to, for dative | enkainie | enkainiei |
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
enkainie 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
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
enkainieim“feast of dedication”subject or objectdirect plural1×
John 10:22Geneta tote teim enkainieim en tei Hierosolumei; cheimōnos ate,At that time the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was …