Original: ἐγκαίνια

Transliteration: enkaínia

Phonetic: eng-kah'-ee-nee-ah

Short Definition: Dedication

- Original: ἐγκαίνια

- Transliteration: Egkainia

- Phonetic: eng-kah'-ee-nee-ah

- Definition:

1. dedication, consecration

a. 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

- Origin: plural of a presumed compound from G1722 and G2537

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: Neuter plural of a presumed compound from G1722 and G2537; innovatives that is (specifically) renewal (of religious services after the Antiochian interruption): - dedication.