πανήγυρις
panḗgyris · G3831 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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celebration, festivity, joyous festival
A gathering for a happy, joyous festivity
ExamplesHebrews 12:23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,
How it’s used In 1 role
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μυριάςmyriads, ten thousand 1
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Near synonyms 2 words
- ἑορτή heortḗ · G1859 · festival, feast, celebration
- ἑορτή denotes a feast or festival, closely related to πανήγυρις but focusing more on the festive occasion itself rather than the assembly/gathering aspect. Both refer to joyous celebratory events, often religious in nature.
- ἐκκλησία ekklēsía · G1577 · congregation, church
- ἐκκλησία denotes a called-out assembly or congregation. While it lacks the specific festive/celebratory nuance of πανήγυρις, it shares the core concept of a gathered assembly or mass meeting, particularly in religious contexts.
In the other Testament 2 words
- חַג chag · H2282 · feast, festival, sacrificial animal
- חַג (ḥag) is the standard Hebrew term for a religious festival or feast gathering, matching πανήγυρις's core sense of a festive assembly or mass gathering, especially in cultic contexts (cf. Exod 23:14-17; Lev 23). Both denote joyous, celebratory assemblies.
- מוֹעֵד môwʻêd · H4150 · meeting, assembly
- מוֹעֵד can denote an appointed assembly or gathering (Lam 2:6; Ps 74:4), overlapping with πανήγυρις's sense of a festive assembly. While מוֹעֵד has broader semantic range (appointed time, place), its assembly sense is a genuine translation equivalent.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Celebration, festivity, joyous festival51.4
- πανήγυρις names a joyous public gathering or festival assembly, as the writer of Hebrews describes the believer's approach to the heavenly city: “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, the festal gathering.” (Hebrews 12:22)
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πανηγυρισεως, ἡ (from πᾶς and ἄγυρις from ἀγείρω), from Herodotus and Pindar down; a. a…
a. a festal gathering of the whole people to celebrate public games or other solemnities.
b. universally, a public festal assembly ; so in Heb 12:22(23) where the word is to be connected with ἀγγέλων (so G L Tr (Tdf.); yet see the commentaries). (The Sept. for מועֵד, Ezek 46:11; Hos 2:11 (); ; עֲצָרָה, Amos 5:21.) (Cf. Trench, § i.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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