ἐγκαίνια: Difference between revisions

|txtha=(T WH ἐανκαινια, [[see]] ἐν, III:3), ἐγκαινιων, τά (from ἐν and [[καινός]]); [[only]] in Biblical and ecclesiastical writings (on the plural cf. Winer s Grammar, § 27,3; Buttmann, 23 (21)); [[dedication]], [[consecration]]; [[thus]], in 2Esdr. 6:16,17; 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 (164 B.C.>) in [[memory]] of the [[cleansing]] of the [[temple]] from the pollutions of [[Antiochus]] Epiphanes (αἱ ἡμέραι ἐγκαινισμοῦ [[τοῦ]] θυσιασθηριου, Winer s RWB ([[also]] Riehm, HWB) [[under]] the [[word]] Kirchweihfest; Oehler in Herzog iv., p. 389; Grimm on Schenkel iii., 534 f; (BB. DD. ([[especially]] Kitto) [[under]] the [[word]] <TOPIC:Dedication, Feast of> the).