חֲנֻכָּה
dedication
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2597 appears in the Book of Ezra — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra
- Ezra 6:16 חֲנֻכַּ֛ת n c fs cs The children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.
- Ezra 6:17 לַ/חֲנֻכַּת֮ prep + n c fs cs They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
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.
“dedication” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun חנכא (chănukkâʼ). It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Ezra, which alone accounts for 50% of its uses. First canonically at Ezra 6:16, it enters the text early. See the sense tree, 4-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2597 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 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: Dedication 4×
- American Standard Version: Dedication 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Dedication 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Dedication of 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2597 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2597 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2597 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2597 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB 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.
- dedication
Word origin
n.f. dedication, consecration, as a matter of usage only P and late (NH חֲנוּכָּה Feast of Dedication; so Aramaic חֲנוּכְּתָא)—abs. ח׳ Ne 12:27; cstr. חֲנֻכַּת Nu 7:10 + 6 times; dedication of wall of Jerus. Ne 12:27(×2), by sacrifices and processions, with music; of altar in temple 2 Ch 7:9; of ‘the house’ ψ 30:1 (title), i.e. the temple (re-dedication by Judas Maccab., 1 Macc. 4:52ff.), v. Ol Bae al. (opp. De), and especially CheOP 234, 247; = dedication-offering for altar in tabernacle Nu 7:10 (acc. c. וַיַּקְרִיבוּ) cf. יַקְרִיבוּ אֶת־קָרְבָּנָם לַחֲנֻכַּת הַמִּזְבֵּחַ v 11, also v 84, 88 (all P; v Di Nu 7:20).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חנכה (chănukkâh) (H2598) — dedication.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H2597 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| לַ/חֲנֻכַּ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 3:3 | 2 |
| חֲנֻכַּ֛ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezra 6:16 | 1 |
| לַ/חֲנֻכַּת֮ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezra 6:17 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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