ἐγκαινίζω
to consecrate
‘to consecrate’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G1457 appears in the Perfect tense, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb εγκαινιζω centers on the idea of “to consecrate.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. Hebrews dominates its distribution — 2 of 2 verses. First canonically at Hebrews 9:18, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1457 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 2 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Hebrews 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: He hath consecrated 1×, Testament was dedicated 1×
- American Standard Version: Been dedicated 1×, He dedicated 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Opened 1×, Was not put into effect 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Had been inaugurated 1×, Has inaugurated 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1457 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1457 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1457 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1457 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to renew
- to do anew, again
- to initiate, consecrate, dedication
Word origin
Derived from εγκαινια (enkaínia) (G1456) — dedication.
From G1456 ; to renew that is inaugurate : - consecrate dedicate.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G1457 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐνεκαίνισεν enekaínisen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Hebrews 10:20 | 1 |
| ἐνκεκαίνισται enkekaínistai | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Hebrews 9:18 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εγκαινιζω appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 6 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 20:5 ἐνκαινίζω
- 1 Samuel 11:14 ἐνκαινίζω
- 1 Kings 8:63 ἐνκαινίζω
- 2 Chronicles 7:5 ἐνκαινίζω
- Psalms 50:12 ἐνκαινίζω
- Isaiah 16:11 ἐνκαινίζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1457) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 20:5 ἐνκαινίζω The officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
- 1 Samuel 11:14 ἐνκαινίζω Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
- 1 Kings 8:63 ἐνκαινίζω Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, two and twenty thousand oxen, and one hundred twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 7:5 ἐνκαινίζω King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 15:8 ἐνκαινίζω When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.
- Psalms 50:12 ἐνκαινίζω If I were hungry, I would not tell you, For the world is mine, and all that is in it.
- Isaiah 16:11 ἐνκαινίζω Why my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.
- Isaiah 41:1 ἐνκαινίζω Keep silence before me, islands; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment.
- Isaiah 45:16 ἐνκαινίζω They shall be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1457) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
