Greek noun (feminine) · G1859
ἑορτή
heorteheh-or-tay'
festival
25 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: heortḗ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1859is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1859
a festival
The King James renders it: feast, holyday.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
heorte is rendered "festival". It stands 25 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Seventeen of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 26:5“But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
“But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”
Matthew 26:5ἑορτῇ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seventeen of the word's twenty-five uses are in John.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- feast24
- to a feast1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἑορτάζω | heortazo | to keep a festival | Uses1 |
All 25, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἑορτῇ7
- ἑορτήν5
- ἑορτῆς5
- ἑορτὴ4
- ἑορτὴν3
- ἑορτήν.¶1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular9N-ASF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular7N-DSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular5N-GSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular4N-NSF
Matthew
two uses
“But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”
- ἑορτῇhe'orteanoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: feast
Now it was the governor’s custom at the feast to release to the crowd a prisoner of their choosing.
- ἑορτὴνhe'ortennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: feast
Mark
two uses
“But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”
- ἑορτῇhe'orteanoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: feast
Now it was Pilate’s custom at the feast to release to the people a prisoner of their choosing.
- ἑορτὴνhe'ortennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: feast
Luke
three uses
Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.
- ἑορτῇhe'orteanoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: feast
And when He was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the Feast.
- ἑορτῆςhe'ortesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: Feast
Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching,
- ἑορτὴhe'ortenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Feast
John
seventeen uses
While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
- ἑορτῇhe'orteanoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: Feast
Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well.
- ἑορτῇhe'orteanoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: feast
- ἑορτήν.¶he'ortennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: feast
Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
- ἑορτὴhe'ortenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: feast
Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near.
- ἑορτὴhe'ortenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: feast
However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near.
- ἑορτὴhe'ortenoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: feast
Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”
- ἑορτήνhe'ortennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: feast
- ἑορτὴνhe'ortennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: feast
But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, He also went—not publicly, but in secret.
- ἑορτήνhe'ortennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: feast
So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and asking, “Where is He?”
- ἑορτῇhe'orteanoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: feast
About halfway through the feast, Jesus went up to the temple courts and began to teach.
- ἑορτῆςhe'ortesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: feast
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- ἑορτῆςhe'ortesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: feast
They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”
- ἑορτήνhe'ortennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: feast
The next day the great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
- ἑορτήνhe'ortennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: feast
Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.
- ἑορτῇhe'orteanoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: feast
It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.
- ἑορτῆςhe'ortesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: feast
Since Judas kept the money bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.
- ἑορτήνhe'ortennoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: feast
Colossians
one use
Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
- ἑορτῆςhe'ortesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: to a feast
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.