ἔτος
etos
year
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word ἔτος (etos) is defined as "year." It is used 49 times in the Bible, indicating its importance in various contexts. The word likely refers to a period of 12 months, which was a common way to measure time in ancient cultures. The word ἔτος is used in a range of contexts, including chronological references, agricultural cycles, and seasonal events. For example, it is used to describe the number of years a person has lived, the duration of a king's reign, or the timing of festivals and harvests. This versatility suggests that the concept of a year was fundamental to the daily lives of ancient people. The significance of ἔτος lies in its role as a unit of time that connects people to their environment, culture, and history. By using a shared calendar, people could coordinate activities, remember important events, and pass down traditions from one generation to the next. In this sense, the word ἔτος represents a fundamental aspect of human experience, one that continues to shape our understanding of time and its significance today.
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Occurrences in Scripture
49 total occurrences across the text
Behold, a woman who had a discharge of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment;
Mark 5:25A certain woman, who had a discharge of blood for twelve years,
Mark 5:42Immediately the girl rose up and walked, for she was twelve years old. They were amazed with great amazement.
Luke 2:36There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,
Luke 2:37and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.
Luke 2:41His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.
Luke 2:42When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast,
Luke 3:1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
Luke 3:23Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
Luke 4:25But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
Luke 8:42for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. But as he went, the multitudes pressed against him.
Luke 8:43A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any
Luke 12:19I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
Luke 13:7He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?’
Luke 13:8He answered, ‘Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.
Luke 13:11Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.
Luke 13:16Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”
Luke 15:29But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.
John 2:20The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”
John 5:5A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
John 8:57The Jews therefore said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”
Acts 7:6God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
Acts 7:30“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
Acts 7:36This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
Acts 7:42But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
Acts 9:33There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.
Acts 13:20After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
Acts 13:21Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
Acts 19:10This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
Acts 24:10When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,
Acts 24:17Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;
Romans 15:23but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,
2 Corinthians 12:2I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.
Galatians 1:18Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days.
Galatians 2:1Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.
Galatians 3:17Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
1 Timothy 5:9Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
Hebrews 1:12You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail.”
Hebrews 3:10Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’
Hebrews 3:17With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Acts 4:22For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
2 Peter 3:8But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:8But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Revelation 20:2He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,
Revelation 20:3and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
Revelation 20:4I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Revelation 20:5The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Revelation 20:6Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
Revelation 20:7And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,