GreekG2094Noun (Neuter)

ἔτος

etos

47Occurrences
G2094Strong's #
Noun (Neuter)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a year

apparently a primary word;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
a year: , ἔτη ἔχειν; εἶναι, γίνεσθαι, ἐτῶν,; dative pl. of space of time,; accusative, in ans. to how long?, preceded by a prep.: dim,; διά, with genitive (see: διά),; ἐκ; εἰς; ἐπί, with accusative; μετά, with accusative; πρό, with genitive; κατ᾽ ἔτος, yearly
Synonyms
ἐνιαυτός, which see; cf. LS, ἐνιαυτός
LXX: for שָׁנֶה

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Neuter)

Morphology Code

G:N-N

Full Description

Greek Noun, Neuter

Occurrences

ἔτος appears 47 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Luke
15
Acts
11
Revelation
6
Galatians
3
John
3
Hebrews
2
Mark
2
1 Timothy
1

Key Passages

1 Timothy 5:9BSB

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

Acts 7:6BSB

God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Hebrews 3:17BSB

And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Luke 15:29BSB

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 8:43BSB

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.

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