ἑορτάζω
to celebrate a feast
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G1858 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
1 Corinthians 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.
“to celebrate a feast” is the headline sense of the Greek verb εορταζω (heortázō). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It clusters heavily in 1 Corinthians, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at 1 Corinthians 5:8. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1858 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 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: Let us keep the feast 1×
- American Standard Version: Let us keep the feast 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Let us keep the feast 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: We should celebrate the festival 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1858 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1858 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1858 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1858 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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 keep a feast day, celebrate a feast
Word origin
Derived from εορτη (heortḗ) (G1859) — festival.
From G1859 ; to observe a festival : - keep the feast.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word εορταζω appears 16 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 15 verses in 9 books.
- 16
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 15
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 5:1 ἑορτάζω
- Leviticus 23:39 ἑορτάζω
- Numbers 29:12 ἑορτάζω
- Deuteronomy 16:15 ἑορτάζω
- 1 Samuel 30:16 ἑορτάζω
- Psalms 41:5 ἑορτάζω
- Isaiah 30:29 ἑορτάζω
- Nahum 2:1 ἑορτάζω
- Zechariah 14:16 ἑορτάζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1858) 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.
- Exodus 5:1 ἑορτάζω Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, "This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.'"
- Exodus 12:14 ἑορτάζω This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
- Exodus 23:14 ἑορτάζω "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
- Leviticus 23:39 ἑορτάζω "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
- Leviticus 23:41 ἑορτάζω You shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month.
- Numbers 29:12 ἑορτάζω On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days:
- Deuteronomy 16:15 ἑορτάζω Seven days shall you keep a feast to Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
- 1 Samuel 30:16 ἑορτάζω When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
- Psalms 41:5 ἑορτάζω My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?"
- Psalms 75:11 ἑορτάζω
- Isaiah 30:29 ἑορτάζω You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come to the mountain of Yahweh, to the Rock of Israel.
- Nahum 2:1 ἑορτάζω He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your loins! Fortify your power mightily!
- Zechariah 14:16 ἑορτάζω It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Hosts, and to keep the feast of tents.
- Zechariah 14:18 ἑορτάζω If the family of Egypt doesn't go up, and doesn't come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.
- Zechariah 14:19 ἑορτάζω This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1858) 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.
