verb
heortazamō
Strong’sG1858
I keep a feast
stem heortaz-once in the New Testament1 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.
ἑορτάζω
(< ἑορτή), [in LXX for חָגַג;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1858 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidheh-or-tad'-zo
to observe a festival
Fromfrom G1859;
King Jameskeep the feast.
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
in Ionic dialectProse ὁρτάζω· imperfect ἑώρταζον (with irregular augment) Refs 5th c.BC+: future -άσωRefs 2nd c.AD+: aorist ἑώρτασα Refs 2nd c.AD+; infinitive ἑορτάσαι Refs 5th c.BC+; compare διεορτάζω: (ἑορτή):—keep festival or holiday, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἑορτὰς ἑ. celebrate festivals, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἑ. τῷ θεῷ Refs 2nd c.AD+
II celebrate as a festival, νίκην ἑ. celebrate it by a festival, Refs 1st c.AD+; at Rome, celebrate by a triumph, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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
What the New Testament actually uses, first — the whole system this verb is built from is one click further down.
| Form and the Greek behind it | What it is | Usually | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| heortazaneiōἑορτάζωμεν | happening now · wepresent active subjunctive 1st person plural | celebrate the feast | 1× |
Every form the New Testament uses, in paradigm order. What the system can build beyond them — the whole of this verb, whether the text happens to use it or not — is in the tables below.
Every form the system can build — all 86, by mood, including the ones the New Testament never uses
Statements — indicative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | was happening imperfect | will happen future | happened aorist | has happened perfect | had happened pluperfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | heortazamō | heortazame | heortazami | heortazama | heortazamē | heortazamelē |
| you 2nd person singular | heortazasō | heortazase | heortazasi | heortazasa | heortazasē | heortazaselē |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | heortazatō | heortazate | heortazati | heortazata | heortazatē | heortazatelē |
| we 1st person plural | heortazanō | heortazane | heortazani | heortazana | heortazanē | heortazanelē |
| ye 2nd person plural | heortazavō | heortazave | heortazavi | heortazava | heortazavē | heortazavelē |
| they 3rd person plural | heortazalō | heortazale | heortazali | heortazala | heortazalē | heortazalelē |
May, might — subjunctive mood, 1 occurrence
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | heortazameiō | heortazameia | heortazameiē |
| you 2nd person singular | heortazaseiō | heortazaseia | heortazaseiē |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | heortazateiō | heortazateia | heortazateiē |
| we 1st person plural | heortazaneiō1×ἑορτάζωμεν | heortazaneia | heortazaneiē |
| ye 2nd person plural | heortazaveiō | heortazaveia | heortazaveiē |
| they 3rd person plural | heortazaleiō | heortazaleia | heortazaleiē |
Commands — imperative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|
| you 2nd person singular | heortazasōr | heortazasar | heortazasēr |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | heortazatōr | heortazatar | heortazatēr |
| ye 2nd person plural | heortazavōr | heortazavar | heortazavēr |
| they 3rd person plural | heortazalōr | heortazalar | heortazalēr |
Wishes — optative mood, no occurrences
| Who person | happening now present | happened aorist |
|---|---|---|
| I 1st person singular | heortazamoiō | heortazamoia |
| you 2nd person singular | heortazasoiō | heortazasoia |
| he/she/it 3rd person singular | heortazatoiō | heortazatoia |
| we 1st person plural | heortazanoiō | heortazanoia |
| ye 2nd person plural | heortazavoiō | heortazavoia |
| they 3rd person plural | heortazaloiō | heortazaloia |
The “to …” form — infinitive, no occurrences
| Who is acting voice | happening now present | will happen future | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the subject acts active voice | heortazarō | heortazari | heortazara | heortazarē |
Used as an adjective — participle, no occurrences
| Who is acting voice | happening now present | will happen future | happened aorist | has happened perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the subject acts active voice | heortazarōntos | heortazarintos | heortazarantos | heortazarēntos |
Each is given in the form it takes as a subject. From there a participle carries the ordinary noun endings, in every case, number and gender — so these four columns are the whole of what the verb contributes.
How every form is built — the slots that make them
heortaz 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
heortazaneiō“celebrate the feast”happening now · wepresent active subjunctive 1st person plural1×
1 Corinthians 5:8“celebrate the feast”hōste heortazaneiō, mē en zuma palaia mēde en …Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and …