STRONGS NUMBER H2598


Word Summary
chanukkah: dedication, consecration
Original Word: חֲנֻכָּה
Transliteration: chanukkah
Phonetic Spelling: (khan-ook-kaw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: dedication, consecration
Meaning: initiation, consecration
Strong's Concordance
dedicatingtion

From chanak; initiation, i.e. Consecration -- dedicating(-tion).

see HEBREW chanak

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2598. chanukkah

חֲנֻכָּהnoun feminine dedication, consecration, as a matter of usage only P and late (Late Hebrew חֲנוּכָּה‎ Feast of Dedication; so Aramaic חֲנוּכְּתָא‎) — abs ׳חNehemiah 12:27; construct חֲנֻכַּתNumbers 7:10 6t.; dedication of wall of Jerusalem Nehemiah 12:27 (twice in verse), by sacrifices and processions, with music; of altar in temple 2 Chronicles 7:9; of 'the house' Psalm 30:1 (title), i.e. the temple (re-dedication by Judas Maccabaeus, 1Macc 4:52ff.), see Ol Bae and others (opposed to De), and especially CheOP 234. 247; = dedication-offering for altar in tabernacle Numbers 7:10 (accusative with וַיַּקְרִיבוּ‎), compare הַמִּזְבֵּחַ לַחֲנֻכַּת אֶתקָֿרְבָּנָם יַקְרִיבוּ7:11, also 7:84; 7:88 (all P; see Di 7:20).