Strong's #1456: egkainia (pronounced 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):--dedication.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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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

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: plural of a presumed compound from G1722 and G2537

Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

 

John 10:22: "at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter."