Word Summary
eniautos: a cycle of time, a year
Original Word: ἐνιαυτόςTransliteration: eniautos
Phonetic Spelling: (en-ee-ow-tos')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a cycle of time, a year
Meaning: a cycle of time, a year
Strong's Concordance
year.
Prolongation from a primary enos (a year); a year -- year.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1763: ἐνιαυτόςἐνιαυτός,
ἐνιαυτοῦ,
ὁ,
a year:
John 11:49, 51;
John 18:13;
Acts 11:26;
Acts 18:11;
James 5:17;
Revelation 9:15; plural, of the Jewish years of Jubilee,
Galatians 4:10 (cf. Ellicott at the passage);
ποιεῖν ἐνιαυτόν, to spend a year,
James 4:13;
ἅπαξ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ,
Hebrews 9:7 (like
ἑπτάκις τῆς ἡμέρας,
Luke 17:4) (cf.
Winers Grammar, § 30, 8 N. 1;
Krüger, § 47, 10, 4);
κατ' ἐνιαυτόν,
yearly, Hebrews 9:25;
Hebrews 10:1, 3 (
Thucydides 1, 93;
Xenophon, oec. 4, 6; an. 3, 2, 12); in a wider sense, for some fixed and definite period of time:
Luke 4:19 (from
Isaiah 61:2), on which passage see
δεκτός. (From
Homer down.)
[SYNONYMS: ἐνιαυτός, ἔτος: originally ἐνιαυτός seems to have denoted (yet cf. Curtius, § 210) a year viewed as a cycle or period of time, ἔτος as a division or sectional portion of time.]