Year
ἔτοςStrong’s G2094etos
Appears in 47 verses of the New Testament
In short
Etos is the Greek word usually translated “years”, “year” and “than years”. It appears in 47 verses of the New Testament.
“Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,”
Meaning
Usually translated “years”, “year” and “than years”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- years 42
- year 3
- of years 2
- than years 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 15
- Acts 11
- Revelation 6
- John 3
- Galatians 3
- Mark 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Peter 3:8In contextBut, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
- Matthew 9:20And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
- Mark 5:25And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,
- Mark 5:42And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.
- Luke 2:36And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
- Luke 2:37And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
All 47 verses, by book
Greek dictionary
ἔτος etos · year
ἔτος, -ους, τό [in LXX for שָׁנֶה ;] a year: Luk.3:1, Heb.1:12, Rev.20:3, al.; ἔτη ἔχειν, Jhn.5:5 8:57; εἶναι, γίνεσθαι, ἐτῶν, Mrk.5:42, Luk.2:42, Act.4:22, 1Ti.5:9; dative pl. of space of time, Jhn.2:20, Act.13:20; accusative, in ans. to how long? Mat.9:20, Mrk.5:25, Luk.2:36, Act.7:6, Heb.3:9, al.; preceded by a prep.: dim, Luk.8:43, Rom.15:23; διά, with genitive (see: διά), Act.24:17, Gal.2:1; ἐκ, Act.24:10; εἰς, Luk.12:19; ἐπί, with accusative, Act.19:10; μετά, with accusative, Gal.1:18 3:17; πρό, with genitive, 2Co.12:2; κατ᾽ ἔτος, yearly, Luk.2:41 …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “year” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
YEAR, noun
[G.]
- The space or period of time in which the sun moves through the twelve signs of the ecliptic, or whole circle, and returns to the same point.
- The time in which any planet completes a revolution; as the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
- The time in which the fixed states make a revolution, is called the great year
- Years, in the plural, is sometimes equivalent to age or old age; as a man in years.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.