Strong's Greek · G1859

G1859 heortḗ

ἑορτή

feast, holyday

When heortḗ is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

a festival

Derivation

of uncertain affinity;

Appears 25 times in Scripture

Luke 2:42

And when He was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the Feast.

John 7:8

Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”

John 12:20

Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.

John 13:1

It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.

John 7:37

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

Matthew 26:5

“But not during the feast,” they said, “or there may be a riot among the people.”

Mark 15:6

Now it was Pilate’s custom at the feast to release to the people a prisoner of their choosing.

Matthew 27:15

Now it was the governor’s custom at the feast to release to the crowd a prisoner of their choosing.

Luke 2:41

Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.

When heortḗ is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what heortḗ means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Luke 2:42 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

How weighing a word works

Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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