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Strong's #1456 - ἐγκαίνια
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- dedication, consecration
- 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
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ἐγκαίν-ια, τά,
(καινός) feast of renovation or consecration, Thd. Daniel 3:2, LXX 2 Esdras 6:16; esp. that established by Judas Maccabaeus at the reconsecration of the Temple, John 10:22.
ἐγκαίνια (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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† ἐνκαίνια
(Rec. έγκ -), -ων , τά
(< ἐν , καινός ),
[in LXX for H2598, Ezra 6:16-17 Nehemiah 12:27, Da TH Daniel 3:2 (and cf. ἐγκαινισμός , Numbers 7:10, al., -ισις , Numbers 7:88) *;]
dedication (anniversary of the cleansing of the Temple from the defilements of Antiochus Epiphanes): John 10:22.†
ἐγκαίνια , see ἐνκ -.
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