A year
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Eniautos is the Greek noun for a year or a marked yearly period. Most uses are straightforward time references, but the passages show how a year can frame promise, office, formation, ritual danger, priestly repetition, and remembered sin.
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Eniautos is the Greek noun for a year or a marked yearly period. Most uses are straightforward time references, but the passages show how a year can frame promise, office, formation, ritual danger, priestly repetition, and remembered sin.
The BSB source-word alignment has 14 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include year (6), a year (2), years (2), . . . (1), [the] year (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 4:19. Its strongest book concentrations include Hebrews (4), John (3), Acts (2), James (2).
Eniautos is the Greek noun for a year or a marked yearly period. Most uses are straightforward time references, but the passages show how a year can frame promise, office, formation, ritual danger, priestly repetition, and remembered sin. Jesus reads Isaiah and proclaims the year of the Lord's favor. John identifies Caiaphas as high priest that year, marking the public setting around the plot against Jesus.
Acts says Barnabas and Saul taught the church in Antioch for a full year. Paul warns the Galatians about observing days, months, seasons, and years as a return to bondage. Hebrews uses yearly language for the repeated entrance of the high priest and the annual reminder of sins. Eniautos teaches measured time under God's purpose, not magical calendar symbolism.
Eniautos names a year or yearly period. Its New Testament uses range from the proclaimed year of the Lord's favor to annual priestly repetition, church formation over time, and warnings against calendar observance as bondage.
To proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Jesus proclaims the year of the Lord's favor from Isaiah, making the time word serve messianic announcement and mercy.
But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all!
Caiaphas is identified as high priest that year, locating his counsel and unwitting prophecy in a concrete leadership moment.
And when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.
A full year of teaching in Antioch shows formation over time before the disciples are first called Christians there.
You are observing special days and months and seasons and years!
Paul warns that observing years, along with days, months, and seasons, can signal a return to enslaving calendar religion.
But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
The high priest enters once a year with blood, showing the repeated and limited nature of the old covenant ritual pattern.
Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
The sacrifices provide an annual reminder of sins, preparing the contrast with Christ's once-for-all offering.
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Greek word. a year
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
14 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 3 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
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Eniautos reminds readers that biblical time is ordinary and theologically charged at once. Luke 4 does not give a generic inspirational year; Jesus announces the Lord's favor in fulfillment of Scripture. John 11 notes Caiaphas's office that year, situating human plotting inside God's larger purpose. Acts 11 shows that a year of teaching can shape a church deeply enough that outsiders recognize the disciples.
Galatians 4 warns that religious calendars can become bondage when treated as a basis of standing before God. Hebrews uses yearly repetition to show the insufficiency of old covenant sacrifices and the need for Christ's once-for-all offering. The word does not make every date symbolic. It helps teachers ask what a measured period reveals about mercy, formation, false security, or final redemption.
Luke.4.19
Eniautos denotes a year or annual period. Context determines whether it is simple chronology, a liturgical cycle, a public office marker, or a theological contrast involving repetition and fulfillment.
Scripture orders life through appointed times, sabbaths, feasts, years, and generations, but those times point beyond themselves to God's saving action. The New Testament places year language under Christ's proclamation of favor and His once-for-all sacrifice.