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Greek noun (neuter) · G2094

ἔτος

etoset'-os

year

48 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: étos

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2094is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 6
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G2094

a year

The King James renders it: year.

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

etos is rendered "year". It stands 48 times in the Greek text, across twelve books.

  • Fifteen of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 9:20Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
  • The Greek text spells it six different ways.

The first use

Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.

Matthew 9:20ἔτη

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Fifteen of the word's forty-eight uses are in Luke.

The other 15 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • years42
  • year3
  • of years2
  • than years1

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.

The words it stands beside

All 48, 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

  • ἔτη26
  • ἐτῶν15
  • ἔτεσιν2
  • ἔτη.¶2
  • ἔτος2
  • ἔτει1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural22N-APN
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural15N-GPN
  • noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural6N-NPN
  • noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular2N-ASN
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural2N-DPN
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular1N-DSN

Matthew

one use
  • Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.

    Matthew 9:20

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years

Mark

two uses
  • And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years.

    Mark 5:25

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • Immediately the girl got up and began to walk around. She was twelve years old, and at once they were utterly astounded.

    Mark 5:42

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of years

Luke

fifteen uses
  • There 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,

    Luke 2:36

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

    Luke 2:37

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.

    Luke 2:41

    • ἔτοςetosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: year
  • And when He was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the Feast.

    Luke 2:42

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • In 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,

    Luke 3:1

    • ἔτειeteinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: year
  • Jesus Himself was about thirty years old when He began His ministry. He was regarded as the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,

    Luke 3:23

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • But 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.

    Luke 4:25

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • because his only daughter, who was about twelve, was dying. As Jesus went with him, the crowds pressed around Him,

    Luke 8:42

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • including 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.

    Luke 8:43

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’

    Luke 12:19

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • So 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?’

    Luke 13:7

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • ‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone again this year, until I dig around it and fertilize it.

    Luke 13:8

    • ἔτοςetosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: year
  • and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.

    Luke 13:11

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”

    Luke 13:16

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • But 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.

    Luke 15:29

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years

John

three uses
  • “This temple took forty-six years to build,” the Jews replied, “and You are going to raise it up in three days?”

    John 2:20

    • ἔτεσινetesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

    John 5:5

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • Then the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?”

    John 8:57

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years

Acts

eleven uses
  • For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.

    Acts 4:22

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of years
  • God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

    Acts 7:6

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

    Acts 7:30

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • He led them out and performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and for forty years in the wilderness.

    Acts 7:36

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • But 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?

    Acts 7:42

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.

    Acts 9:33

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

    Acts 13:20

    • ἔτεσινetesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin.

    Acts 13:21

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • This continued for two years, so that everyone who lived in the province of Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the word of the Lord.

    Acts 19:10

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • When 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.

    Acts 24:10

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.

    Acts 24:17

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: years

Romans

one use
  • But now that there are no further opportunities for me in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to visit you,

    Romans 15:23

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: years

2 Corinthians

one use
  • I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows.

    2 Corinthians 12:2

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: years

Galatians

three uses
  • Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

    Galatians 1:18

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • Fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem, accompanied by Barnabas. I took Titus along also.

    Galatians 2:1

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • What 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.

    Galatians 3:17

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years

1 Timothy

one use
  • A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, the wife of one man,

    1 Timothy 5:9

    • ἐτῶνetonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: than years

Hebrews

two uses
  • You 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.”

    Hebrews 1:12

    • ἔτηetenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

    Hebrews 3:17

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years

2 Peter

two uses
  • Beloved, 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.

    2 Peter 3:8

    • ἔτηetenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: years
    • ἔτηetenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: years

Revelation

six uses
  • He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

    Revelation 20:2

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • And 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.

    Revelation 20:3

    • ἔτηetenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • Then 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.

    Revelation 20:4

    • ἔτηetenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.

    Revelation 20:5

    • ἔτη.¶etenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • Blessed 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.

    Revelation 20:6

    • ἔτη.¶etenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: years
  • When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,

    Revelation 20:7

    • ἔτηetenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: years

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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