the feast of the Dedication

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Dedication: NRSV NASB
Dedication, The Feast of the: AVS TEV
the Feast of Dedication: NIV
the feast of the Dedication: NET

The celebration of Hanukkah commemorating the dedication of the temple by Judas Maccabeus

Greek

Strongs #1456: egkainia egkainia

1) dedication, consecration
1a) in particular the annual feast celebrated eight days beginning
in the 25th of Chislev (middle of our December), instituted by
Judas Maccabaeus [164 BC] in memory of the cleansing of the
temple from the pollution of Antiochus Epiphanes

1456 egkainia eng-kah'-ee-nee-ah

neuter plural of a presumed compound from 1722 and 2537; innovatives, i.e. (specially) renewal (of religious services after the Antiochian interruption): KJV -- dedication.
see GREEK for 1722
see GREEK for 2537

DEDICATE; DEDICATION [isbe]

DEDICATE; DEDICATION - ded'-i-kat, ded-ika'-shun (chanukkah, "initiation," "consecration"; qadhesh, "to be clean," "sanctify"; cherem, "a thing devoted (to God)"): Often used in Hebrew of the consecration of persons, but usually in the English Versions of the Bible of the setting apart of things to a sacred use, as of the altar (Nu 7:10 f,84,88; compare Dan 3:2,3, "the dedication of the image"), of silver and gold (2 Sam 8:11; 2 Ki 12:4), of the Temple (1 Ki 8:63; Ezr 6:16 f; compare Ex 29:44), of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh 12:27), of private dwellings (Dt 20:5). the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes "devoted" for "dedicated" in Ezek 44:29.

See CONSECRATION; SANCTIFICATION.

Dedication [nave]

DEDICATION
Law concerning dedicated things, Lev. 27; Num. 18:14; 1 Chr. 26:26, 27.
Must be without blemish, Lev. 22:18-23; Mal. 1:14.
Not redeemable, Lev. 27:28, 29.
Offering must be voluntary, Lev. 1:3; 22:19.
See: Offerings; Vows.
Of the tabernacle, Num. 7.
Solomon's temple, 1 Kin. 8; 2 Chr. 7:5.
Second temple, Ezra 6:16, 17.
Of the wall of Jerusalem, Neh. 12:27-43.
Of houses, Deut. 20:5.
Of Samuel by his mother, 1 Sam. 1:11, 22.
Of Self. See: Consecration.
For instances of liberality in dedicated things, See: Liberality.
Feast of, John 10:22.
See 1 Kin. 8:65; 2 Chr. 7:8-10.

DEDICATION [bridgeway]

According to common usage, ‘dedication’ is another word for ‘consecration’. The two words refer to the act of setting apart people or things from the ordinary affairs of life and presenting them to God for his service (Exod 13:2,12; 29:1,22; Num 7:10-11; 1 Sam 1:11,24-28; 1 Kings 8:63; 1 Chron 26:26; Ezra 6:16-17; for details see CONSECRATION).

The Jewish festival known as the Feast of Dedication celebrated the rededication of the Jewish temple after the defilement by Antiochus Epiphanes in the second century BC (John 10:22; for details see FEASTS).