Word Summary
heortē: a feast, a festival
Original Word: ἑορτήTransliteration: heortē
Phonetic Spelling: (heh-or-tay')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a feast, a festival
Meaning: a feast, a festival
Strong's Concordance
feast, holy day.
Of uncertain affinity; a festival -- feast, holyday.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1859: ἑορτήἑορτή,
ἑορτῆς,
ἡ, the
Sept. for
חָג; Greek writings from
Homer down; in
Herodotus ὁρτή;
a feast day, festival:
Luke 2:42;
John 5:1;
John 6:4;
John 7:2, 37;
Colossians 2:16;
ἡ ἑορτή τοῦ πάσχα:
Luke 2:41 (
Winers Grammar, 215 (202);
Buttmann, 186 (161));
John 13:1; equivalent to
ἡ ἑορτή τῶν ἀζύμων,
Luke 22:1;
ἐν τῇ ἑορτή, during the feast,
Matthew 26:5;
Mark 14:2;
John 4:45;
John 7:11;
John 12:20;
εἶναι ἐν τῇ ἑορτή, to be engaged in celebrating the feast,
John 2:23, cf. Baumg.-Crusius and Meyer at the passage;
εἰς τήν ἑορτήν, for the feast,
John 13:29;
ἀναβαίνειν (to Jerusalem)
εἰς τήν ἑορτήν,
John 7:8, 10;
ἔρχεσθαι εἰς τήν ἑορτήν,
John 4:45;
John 11:56;
John 12:12;
τῆς ἑορτῆς μεσούσης, in the midst of the feast,
John 7:14;
κατά ἑορτήν, at every feast (see
κατά, II. 3 a.
β.),
Matthew 25:2, 15;
Mark 15:6;
Luke 23:17 (
Rec.);
τήν ἑορτήν ποιεῖν to keep, celebrate, the feast,
Acts 18:21 (
Rec.);
κατά τό ἔθος τῆς ἑορτῆς, after the custom of the feast,
Luke 2:42.