Word Study · Strong's G2094 · Greek
ἔτος
etos
et'-os
Strong's 1890 spelling: étos
“a year”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a year
Rendered in the KJV as
year.
- 48occurrencesin the New Testament
- 12 of 27New Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 11inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 48 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 11
- ἔτη21
- ἐτῶν14
- ἔτεσιν2
- ἔτη,2
- ἔτη.2
- ἔτη.¶2
- ἔτει1
- ἔτη;1
- ἔτος1
- ἔτος,1
- ἐτῶν,1
How it is rendered · 9
- years30
- years [old]4
- years.4
- years,3
- of years2
- year2
- than years [old]1
- year,1
- years?1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 6
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural22
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural15
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural6
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular2
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural2
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- N-APN · 22
- N-GPN · 15
- N-NPN · 6
- N-ASN · 2
- N-DPN · 2
- N-DSN · 1
All 48, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Luke carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
Mark2 occurrences
- Mark 5:25ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralAnd a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.here: years
- Mark 5:42ἐτῶνetōnnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluralImmediately the girl got up and began to walk around. She was twelve years old, and at once they were utterly astounded.here: of years
Luke15 occurrences
- Luke 2:36ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralThere was also a prophetess named Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, who was well along in years. She had been married for seven years,here: years
- Luke 2:37ἐτῶνetōnnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraland then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.here: years
- Luke 2:41ἔτοςetosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singularEvery year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.here: year
- Luke 2:42ἐτῶνetōnnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluralAnd when He was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the Feast.here: years [old]
- Luke 3:1ἔτειeteinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singularIn the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,here: year
- Luke 3:23ἐτῶνetōnnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluralJesus Himself was about thirty years old when He began His ministry. He was regarded as the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,here: years [old]
- Luke 4:25ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralBut I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.here: years
- Luke 8:42ἐτῶνetōnnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluralbecause his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him,here: years [old]
- Luke 8:43ἐτῶνetōnnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluralincluding a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.here: years
- Luke 12:19ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralThen I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’here: years
- Luke 13:7ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralSo he said to the keeper of the vineyard, ‘Look, for the past three years I have come to search for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Therefore cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’here: years
- Luke 13:8ἔτος,etosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singular‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.here: year,
- Luke 13:11ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraland a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.here: years
- Luke 13:16ἔτη,etēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralThen should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”here: years,
- Luke 15:29ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralBut he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.here: years
John3 occurrences
- John 2:20ἔτεσινetesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural“This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”here: years
- John 5:5ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralOne man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.here: years
- John 8:57ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralThen the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?”here: years [old]
Acts11 occurrences
- Acts 4:22ἐτῶνetōnnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluralFor the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.here: of years
- Acts 7:6ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralGod told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.here: years
- Acts 7:30ἐτῶνetōnnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluralAfter forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.here: years
- Acts 7:36ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralHe led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.here: years
- Acts 7:42ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralBut God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?here: years
- Acts 9:33ἐτῶνetōnnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluralThere he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.here: years
- Acts 13:20ἔτεσινetesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluralAll this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.here: years
- Acts 13:21ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralThen the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin.here: years
- Acts 19:10ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralThis continued for two years, so that everyone who lived in the province of Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.here: years
- Acts 24:10ἐτῶνetōnnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluralWhen the governor motioned for Paul to speak, he began his response: “Knowing that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I gladly make my defense.here: years
- Acts 24:17ἐτῶνetōnnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluralAfter several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.here: years
2 Corinthians1 occurrence
Galatians3 occurrences
- Galatians 1:18ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralOnly after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days.here: years
- Galatians 2:1ἐτῶνetōnnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluralFourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, accompanied by Barnabas. I took Titus along also.here: years
- Galatians 3:17ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralWhat I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.here: years
1 Timothy1 occurrence
Hebrews2 occurrences
- Hebrews 1:12ἔτηetēnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluralYou will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”here: years
- Hebrews 3:17ἔτη;etēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralAnd with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?here: years?
2 Peter2 occurrences
- 2 Peter 3:8ἔτηetēnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluralBeloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.here: years
- 2 Peter 3:8ἔτηetēnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluralBeloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.here: years
Revelation6 occurrences
- Revelation 20:2ἔτηetēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralHe seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.here: years
- Revelation 20:3ἔτη.etēnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluralAnd he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.here: years.
- Revelation 20:4ἔτη.etēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralThen I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image, and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.here: years.
- Revelation 20:5ἔτη.¶etēnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluralThe rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.here: years.
- Revelation 20:6ἔτη.¶etēnoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluralBlessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him for a thousand years.here: years.
- Revelation 20:7ἔτη,etēnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluralWhen the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,here: years,