Quick Definition
I keep a feast
Strong's Definition
to observe a festival
Derivation: from G1859 (ἑορτή);
KJV Usage: keep the feast
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἑορτάζω; (ἑορτή); to keep a feast-day, celebrate a festival: 1Co_5:8, on which passage see ἄζυμος. (the Sept. for ηΘβΗβ; Euripides, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, others; ὁρτάζω, Herodotus.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἑορτάζω heortazō 1x
to keep a feast, celebrate a festival, 1Co_5:8
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἑορτάζω
( <ἑορτή ),
[in LXX for H2287 ;]
to keep festival: 1Co_5:8 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἑορτάζω [page 226]
For this verb which in the NT is confined to 1Co_5:8 , but is frequent in the LXX, cf. BGU II. 646 .6 (A.D. 193), an order issued by a prefect during the short reign of the Emperor Pertinax ἵνα πάντες ῒδιῆτα [ι ] ( l. εἰδῆτε ) καὶ ταῖς ἱσαις ἡμέραις ἑορτάσητ [α ]ι ( l. ἑορτάσητε ). See also OGIS 493 .25 (ii/A.D.) κ [αθ᾽ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν ] ἑορτάζειν τὴν γενέθλιον αὐ [τοῦ καὶ πᾶσιν ] ἀνθρώποις αἰτίαν ἀγαθῶν ἡμέ [ραν , with reference to a birthday celebration.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἑορτάζω [Etym: ἑορτή] "to keep festival or holiday", Hdt. , Eur. "to celebrate as or by a festival", Plut.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἑορτάζω
(ἑορτή), [in LXX for חָגַג ;]
to keep festival: 1Co.5:8.†
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