Word

ἑορτή

heortḗ · G1859 · Greek · 25 occurrences

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Meanings

festival, feast, celebration

The events associated with the celebration of a festival or feast

Examples
Matthew 26:5 But they were saying, “Not during the festival, otherwise a riot might occur among the people.”
Matthew 27:15 Now at the Passover Feast the governor was accustomed to release for the people any one prisoner whom they wanted.
Mark 14:2 for they were saying, “Not during the festival, otherwise there will be a riot of the people.”

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

6 occurrences in 3 groups

Ἰουδαῖοςa Jew, Jewish 3
πάσχαthe Passover 2
ἄζυμοςwithout yeast 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

οὗτοςthis 1

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 5 groups

εἰμίto be 1
λέγωto say 1
πάσχαthe Passover 1
σκηνοπηγίαfestival of the tabernacles 1
σῶμαbody 1

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἐγγίζωto draw near 1
εἰμίto be 1
μεσόωto be in the middle of 1

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐγγύςnear 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

16 occurrences in 4 groups

εἰςto 14
ἐνin 9
κατάaccording to, against, down 4
πρόbefore 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἔθοςcustom 1
μέγαςgreat, large 1
μέροςpart 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words

חַג chag · H2282 · feast, festival, sacrificial animal: Greek ἑορτή is the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew חַג, both denoting a religious festival or feast day in their respective biblical contexts, and the Septuagint consistently renders חַג with ἑορτή.
מוֹעֵד môwʻêd · H4150 · meeting, assembly: מוֹעֵד (môwʻêd, H4150) denotes the appointed time/festival in Hebrew Scripture, and ἑορτή (heortḗ, G1859) is its standard Greek rendering for the festival/feast concept in the LXX, representing direct translation equivalence for the cultic calendar sense shared by both terms.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Festival, feast, celebration51.2: This noun denotes a religious festival or feast day, used of the chief priests' concern not to arrest Jesus during the feast to avoid a riot among the people — "Not during the festival, otherwise a riot might occur among the people" (Matthew 26:5).

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἑορτήheortḗ · G1859ἑορτάζω heortázō · G1858 · to celebrate, to observe a feast, to participate in a festival · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἑορτῆς, ἡ, the Sept. for חָג; Greek writings from Homer down; in Herodotus ὁρτή; a feast…

ἑορτῆς, ἡ, the Sept. for חָג; Greek writings from Homer down; in Herodotus ὁρτή; a feast day, festival: Lk 2:42; Jn 5:1; Jn 6:4; Jn 7:2, Jn 7:37; Col 2:16; ἡ ἑορτή τοῦ πάσχα: Lk 2:41 (Winers Grammar, 215 (202); Buttmann, 186 (161)); Jn 13:1; equivalent to ἡ ἑορτή τῶν ἀζύμων, Lk 22:1; ἐν τῇ ἑορτή, during the feast, Mt 26:5; Mk 14:2; Jn 4:45; Jn 7:11; Jn 12:20; εἶναι ἐν τῇ ἑορτή, to be engaged in celebrating the feast, Jn 2:23, cf. Baumg.-Crusius and Meyer at the passage; εἰς τήν ἑορτήν, for the feast, Jn 13:29; ἀναβαίνειν (to Jerusalem) εἰς τήν ἑορτήν, Jn 7:8, Jn 7:10; ἔρχεσθαι εἰς τήν ἑορτήν, Jn 4:45; Jn 11:56; Jn 12:12; τῆς ἑορτῆς μεσούσης, in the midst of the feast, Jn 7:14; κατά ἑορτήν, at every feast (see κατά, II. 3 a. β.), Mt 25:2, Mt 25:15; Mk 15:6; Lk 23:17 (Rec.); τήν ἑορτήν ποιεῖν to keep, celebrate, the feast, Acts 18:21 (Rec.); κατά τό ἔθος τῆς ἑορτῆς, after the custom of the feast, Lk 2:42.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Festivals25 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0