Word Summary
etos: a year
Original Word: ἔτοςTransliteration: etos
Phonetic Spelling: (et'-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a year
Meaning: a year
Strong's Concordance
year.
Apparently a primary word; a year -- year.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2094: ἔτοςἔτος,
ἔτους (the genitive plural
ἐτῶν, cf.
Buttmann, 14 (13)),
τό, (from
Homer down), Hebrew
שָׁנַה,
a year:
Luke 3:1;
Acts 7:30;
Hebrews 1:12;
2 Peter 3:8;
Revelation 20:3, etc.;
ἔτη ἔχειν, to have passed years,
John 8:57; with
ἐν ἀσθένεια added,
John 5:5 (cf.
Winer's Grammar, § 32, 6);
εἶναι,
γίνεσθαι,
γεγονέναι ἐτῶν, e. g.
δώδεκα, to be twelve years old (cf. English (a boy)
of twelve years):
Mark 5:42;
Luke 2:42;
Luke 3:23 (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 349 (328));
; Acts 4:22; γεγονυῖα ἔλαττον ἐτῶν ἑξήκοντα, less than sixty years old, 1 Timothy 5:9 (Winers Grammar, 590 (549)); dative plural, of the space of time within which a thing is done (Winers Grammar, § 31, 9 a.; Buttmann, § 133, 26), John 2:20; Acts 13:20; accusative, in answer to the questtion, How long?: Matthew 9:20; Mark 5:25; Luke 2:36; Luke 13:7f, 11, 16; Luke 15:29; Acts 7:6, 36, 42; Hebrews 3:10 (),; Revelation 20:2, 4, 6. preceded by a preposition: ἀοπ, from ... on, since, Luke 8:43; Romans 15:23; in the same sense ἐκ, Acts 9:33; Acts 24:10 (A. V. of many years); διά with the genitive, ... years having intervened, i. e. after (see διά, II. 2): Acts 24:17; Galatians 2:1; εἰς, for ... years, Luke 12:19; ἐπί with the accusative (see ἐπί, C. II. I, p. 235b bottom), for (the space of), Acts 19:10; μετά with the accusative, after, Galatians 1:18; Galatians 3:17; πρό with the genitive, before (English ago; cf. πρό, b.), 2 Corinthians 12:2; κατ' ἔτος, yearly, Luke 2:41. (Synonym: cf. ἐνιαυτός.)