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# חֲנֻכָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2598

**dedication** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dedication [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2598/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲנֻכָּה: n.f. dedication, consecration [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2598/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. dedication, consecration, as a matter of usage only P and late (NH חֲנוּכָּה Feast of Dedication; so Aramaic חֲנוּכְּתָא)—abs. ח׳ Ne 12:27; cstr. חֲנֻכַּת Nu 7:10 + 6 times; dedication of wall of Jerus. Ne 12:27(×2), by sacrifices and processions, with music; of altar in temple 2 Ch 7:9; of ‘the house’ ψ 30:1 (title), i.e. the temple (re-dedication by Judas Maccab., 1 Macc. 4:52ff.), v. Ol Bae al. (opp. De), and especially CheOP 234, 247; = dedication-offering for altar in tabernacle Nu 7:10 (acc. c. וַיַּקְרִיבוּ) cf. יַקְרִיבוּ אֶת־קָרְבָּנָם לַחֲנֻכַּת הַמִּזְבֵּחַ v 11, also v 84, 88 (all P; v Di Nu 7:20).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the dedication (4); \[was\] the dedication (2); dedication (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 30:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.30.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.30.1/#tree)

מִזְמ֡וֹר שִׁיר־חֲנֻכַּ֖ת הַבַּ֣יִת לְדָוִֽד׃

*Word for word:* a.psalm the.song of.the.dedication of the.house of David

*JPS 1917:* A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House; of David.

[2 Chronicles 7:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.7.9/#tree)

וַֽיַּעֲשׂ֛וּ בַּיּ֥וֹם הַשְּׁמִינִ֖י עֲצָ֑רֶת כִּ֣י ׀ חֲנֻכַּ֣ת הַמִּזְבֵּ֗חַ עָשׂוּ֙ שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֔ים וְהֶחָ֖ג שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they.observed on the day (the) eighth an.assembly (dm) the.dedication of the.altar they.had.observed seven days and the festival seven days

*JPS 1917:* And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly; for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2598.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2598/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).