Word

חֲנֻכָּא

chănukkâʼ · H2597 · Aramaic · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

dedication

Action by which humans make a building or religious object ready for use usually by devoting it to a deity

Examples
Ezra 6:16 And the sons of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.
Ezra 6:17 They offered for the dedication of this temple of God a hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel twelve male goats, corresponding to the number of the tribes of Israel.
Daniel 3:2 Nebuchadnezzar the king also sent word to assemble the satraps, the prefects and the governors, the counselors, the chief treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the administrators of the provinces to come to the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

How it’s used In 3 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

4 occurrences in 2 groups

בַּיִתhouse 2
צֶלֶםstatue, image 2

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עֲבַדcut 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 6

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 1 word

ἐγκαίνια enkaínia · G1456 · the festival of dedication of the Temple: Greek ἐγκαίνια (enkaínia, G1456) is the direct Septuagintal rendering of Hebrew חֲנֻכָּא (chănukkâʼ, H2597), both denoting the religious feast of dedication/renewal, most notably the temple rededication celebrated as Hanukkah.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Clean002001001011: Ezra 6:16 recounts that “the sons of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.”

Word family 4 words

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

חָנַךְ chânak · H2596 · to dedicate, to train · 5×חֲנֻכָּה chănukkâh · H2598 · dedication · 8×חֲנֻכָּאchănukkâʼ · H2597חָנִיךְ chânîyk · H2593 · trained, experienced · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2597. chanukkah [חֲנֻכָּה] noun feminine dedication (ᵑ7; Biblical Hebrew id., √ חנך); —…

H2597. chanukkah
[חֲנֻכָּה] noun feminine dedication (ᵑ7; Biblical Hebrew id., √ חנך); — construct חֲנֻכַּת, of image Dan 3:2. Dan 3:3; temple Ezr 6:16. Ezra 16:17.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Clean4 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