Dedication
חֲנֻכָּהStrong’s H2597chanukkah (cha-nuk-kah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chanukkah is the Aramaic word usually translated “dedication of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.”
Meaning
- Dedication
How it's translated
- for dedication of 2
- dedication of 1
- to dedication of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 2
- Daniel 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:3In contextThen the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
- Ezra 6:16And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy,
- Ezra 6:17And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
Aramaic dictionary
חֲנֻכָּה chanukkah · dedication
dedication Aramaic of cha.nuk.kah (חֲנֻכָּה "dedication" H2598)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dedication” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEDICATION, noun
- The act of consecrating to a divine Being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as the dedication of Solomons temple.
- The act of devoting or giving to.
- An address to a patron, prefixed to a book, testifying respect and recommending the work to his protection and favor.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.