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Strong's G1859 ἑορτή (heorte)

Heorte means “feast” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1859 — dar (“generation”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1859
Language Greek
Linked Usages 131
Books 36

Strong's G1859 Quick Answer

Strong's G1859 ἑορτή (heorte) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. heorte (heh-or-tay') n. 1. a festival [of uncertain affinity] It has 131 linked Bible usages across 36 books. Visible English usage signals include feast and holyday. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
heorte (heh-or-tay') n. 1. a festival [of uncertain affinity]
Usage
131 linked usages
Books
36 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
feast and holyday

Meaning and Definition

heorte (heh-or-tay') n. 1. a festival [of uncertain affinity] KJV: feast, holyday

Original Word
ἑορτή
Transliteration
heorte
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1859. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

festival

Usage: ἑορτή, -ῆς, ἡ [in LXX for חַג (chiefly), מוֹעֵד ;] a feast, festival: Luk.2:42, Jhn.5:1, Jhn.6:4 Jhn.7:37, Col.2:10; ἡ ἑ. τοῦ πάσχα, Luk.2:41, Jhn.13:1; τ. ἀζύμων, Luk.22:1; ἡ σκηνοπηγία, Jhn.7:2 (Deiss., LAE, 116); ἐν τ. ἑ., Mat.26:5, Mrk.14:2, Jhn.4:45 7:11 12:20 (εἶναι ἐν ἑ.), Jhn.2:23; εἰς τ. ἑ. (for the feast), Jhn.13:29; ἀναβαίνειν, ἔρχεσθαι εἰς τ. ἑ., Jhn.4:45 7:8-10 11:56 12:12; τῆς ἐ μεσούσης, Jhn.7:14; κατὰ ἑ. (at each feast), Mat.27:15, Mrk.15:6, Luk.23:17, R, mg.; τ. ἑ. ποιεῖν, Act.18:21;

κατὰ τὸ ἔθος τῆς ἑ., Luk.2:42.† (AS)

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How Strong's G1859 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render heorte, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

feast Matthew 26:5 24× holyday Colossians 2:16

How Strong's G1859 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 83 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1859 (ἑορτή) appears 120 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1859 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1859 in the New Testament

25 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 26:5 KJV

But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

Matthew 27:15 KJV

Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.

Mark 14:2 KJV

But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

Strong's G1859 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

83 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 10:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And Moses said, We will go with the young and the old, with our sons, and daughters, and sheep, and oxen, for it is a feast of the Lord.

Exodus 12:14 Septuagint / Brenton

And this day shall be to you a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord through all your generations; ye shall keep it a feast for a perpetual ordinance.

Exodus 13:6 Septuagint / Brenton

Six days ye shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a feast to the Lord.

Strong's G1859 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

22 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 1:17 Septuagint / Brenton

Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of the Lord accomplished in that day, that they might hold the Passover,

1 Esdras 5:50 Septuagint / Brenton

And there were gathered unto them out of the other nations of the land, and they erected the altar upon his own place, because all the nations of the land were at enmity with them, and oppressed them; and they offered sacrifices according to the time, and burnt offerings to the Lord both morning and evening.

1 Esdras 5:51 Septuagint / Brenton

Also they held the feast of tabernacles, as it is commanded in the law, and offered sacrifices daily, as was meet:

Strong's G1859 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

Usage Excerpts

First 120 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1859.

Exodus 10:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses said, We will go with the young and the old, with our sons, and daughters, and sheep, and oxen, for it is a feast of the Lord.
Exodus 12:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this day shall be to you a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord through all your generations; ye shall keep it a feast for a perpetual ordinance.
Exodus 13:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Six days ye shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a feast to the Lord.
Exodus 23:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Take heed to keep the feast of unleavened bread: seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, as I charged thee at the season of the month of new corn, for in it thou camest out of Egypt: thou shalt not appear before me empty.
Exodus 23:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt keep the feast of the harvest of firstfruits of thy labors, whatsoever thou shalt have sown in thy field, and the feast of completion at the end of the year in the gathering in of thy fruits out of thy field.
Exodus 23:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For when I shall have cast out the nations from before thee, and shall have widened thy borders, thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven, neither must the fat of my feast abide till the morning.
Exodus 32:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Aaron having seen it built an altar before it, and Aaron made proclamation saying, Tomorrow is a feast of the Lord.
Exodus 34:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, as I have charged thee, at the season in the month of new corn; for in the month of new corn thou camest out from Egypt.
Exodus 34:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt keep to me the feast of weeks, the beginning of wheat harvest; and the feast of ingathering in the middle of the year.
Exodus 34:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifices with leaven, neither shall the sacrifices of the feast of the Passover remain till the morning.
Leviticus 22:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whatsoever man shall offer a peace offering to the Lord, discharging a vow, or in the way of freewill offering, or an offering in your feasts, of the herds or of the sheep, it shall be without blemish for acceptance: there shall be no blemish in it.
Leviticus 23:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, The feasts of the Lord which ye shall call holy assemblies, these are my feasts.
Leviticus 23:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These are the feasts to the Lord, holy convocations, which ye shall call in their seasons.
Leviticus 23:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Leviticus 23:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, there shall be a feast of tabernacles seven days to the Lord.
Leviticus 23:37 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These are the feasts to the Lord, which ye shall call holy convocations, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, whole burnt offerings and their meat offerings, and their drink offerings, that for each day on its day:
Leviticus 23:44 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses recounted the feasts of the Lord to the children of Israel.
Numbers 10:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the days of your gladness, and in your feasts, and in your new moons, ye shall sound with the trumpets at your whole burnt offerings, and at the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and there shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the Lord your God.
Numbers 15:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and thou wilt offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, a whole burnt offering or a meat offering to perform a vow, or a freewill offering, or to offer in your feasts a sacrifice of sweet savor to the Lord, whether of the herd or the flock:
Numbers 28:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Charge the children of Israel, and thou shalt speak to them, saying, Ye shall observe to offer to me in my feasts my gifts, my presents, my burnt offerings for a sweet-smelling savor.
Numbers 28:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast; seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.
Numbers 29:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord seven days.
Numbers 29:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These sacrifices shall ye offer to the Lord in your feasts, besides your vows; and ye shall offer your free will offerings and your whole burnt offerings, and your meat offerings and your drink offerings, and your peace offerings.
Deuteronomy 16:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Six days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day is a holiday, a feast to the Lord thy God: thou shalt not do in it any work, save what must be done by anyone.
Deuteronomy 16:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks to the Lord thy God, accordingly as thy hand has power in as many things as the Lord thy God shall give thee.
Deuteronomy 16:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt keep for thyself the feast of tabernacles seven days, when thou gatherest in thy produce from thy corn floor and thy winepress.
Deuteronomy 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow that is in thy cities.
Deuteronomy 16:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: thou shalt not appear before the Lord thy God empty.
Deuteronomy 31:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses charged them in that day, saying, After seven years, in the time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
Judges 21:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said, Lo! now there is a feast of the Lord from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, eastward on the way that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and from the south of Lebonah.
3 Kingdoms 8:65 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
3 Kingdoms 12:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
3 Kingdoms 12:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
4 Kingdoms 23:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Josiah turned aside, and saw the tombs that were there in the city, and sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God spoke, when Jeroboam stood by the altar at the feast: and he turned and raised his eyes to the tomb of the man of God that spoke these words.
1 Chronicles 23:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and to be over all the whole burnt offerings that were offered up to the Lord on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts, by number, according to the order given to them, continually before the Lord.
2 Chronicles 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
behold, I also his son am building a house to the name of the Lord my God, to consecrate it to him, to burn incense before him, and to offer showbread continually, and to offer up whole burnt offerings continually morning and evening, and on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts of the Lord our God: this is a perpetual statute for Israel.
2 Chronicles 5:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all Israel were assembled unto the king in the feast, this is the seventh month.
2 Chronicles 7:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Solomon kept the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entering in of Hamath, and as far as the river of Egypt.
2 Chronicles 7:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And on the eighth day he kept a solemn assembly: for he kept a feast of seven days as the dedication of the altar.
2 Chronicles 8:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
according to the daily rate, to offer up sacrifices according to the commandments of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and at the feasts, three times in the year, at the feast of unleavened bread, and at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of tabernacles.
2 Chronicles 30:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And a great multitude were gathered to Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
2 Chronicles 30:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great joy; and they continued to sing hymns to the Lord daily, and the priests and the Levites played on instruments to the Lord.
2 Chronicles 30:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites, and those that had good understanding of the Lord: and they completely kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, offering peace offerings, and confessing to the Lord God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 30:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there was great joy in Jerusalem: from the days of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not such a feast in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 31:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king’s proportion out of his substance was appointed for the whole burnt offerings, the morning and the evening one, and the whole burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the feasts that were ordered in the law of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 35:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel that were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
Ezra 3:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;
Ezra 3:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts of the LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.
Ezra 6:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
Nehemiah 8:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
Nehemiah 8:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
Nehemiah 10:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
Psalms 73:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they that hate thee have boasted in the midst of thy feast; They have set up their standards for signs,
Psalms 73:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have said in their heart, even all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.
Psalms 80:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Blow the trumpet at the new moon, In the glorious day of your feast.
Psalms 117:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
God is the Lord, and he has shined upon us: Celebrate the feast with thick branches, Binding the victims even to the horns of the altar.
Isaiah 1:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
your fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: ye have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins.
Jeremiah 38:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I bring them from the north, and will gather them from the end of the earth to the feast of the Passover: and the people shall beget a great multitude, and they shall return hither.
Lamentations 1:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The ways of Zion mourn, Because there are none that come to the feast: All her gates are ruined: Her priests groan, Her virgins are led captive, And she is in bitterness in herself.
Lamentations 2:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he has scattered his tabernacle as a vine, He has marred his feast: The Lord has forgotten the feast And the Sabbath which he appointed in Zion, And in the fury of his wrath Has vexed the king, and priest, and prince.
Lamentations 2:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord has rejected his altar, He has cast off his sanctuary, He has broken by the hand of the enemy The wall of her palaces; They have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord As on a feast day.
Lamentations 2:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He has called my sojourners round about To a solemn day, And there was not in the day of the wrath of the Lord Anyone that escaped or was left; Whereas I have strengthened and multiplied all mine enemies.
Ezekiel 23:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
drink thou it, and I will take away her feasts and her new moons: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 36:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
as holy sheep, as the sheep of Jerusalem in her feasts; thus shall the desert cities be full of flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 44:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And these shall attend at a judgment of blood to decide it: they shall rightly observe my ordinances, and judge my judgments, and keep my statutes and my commandments in all my feasts; and they shall hallow my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 45:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And through the prince shall be offered the whole burnt offerings and the meat offerings, and the drink offerings in the feasts, and at the new moons, and on the Sabbaths; and in all the feasts of the house of Israel: he shall offer the sin offerings, and the meat offering, and the whole burnt offerings, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 45:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the feast of the Passover; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Ezekiel 45:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And for the seven days of the feast he shall offer as whole burnt offerings to the Lord seven calves and seven rams without blemish daily for the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering, and a meat offering.
Ezekiel 45:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, thou shalt sacrifice in the feast in the same way seven days, as they sacrificed the sin offerings, and the whole burnt offerings, and the freewill offering, and the oil.
Ezekiel 46:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And whenever the people of the land shall go in before the Lord at the feasts, he that goes in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he that goes in by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the gate by which he entered, but he shall go forth opposite it.
Ezekiel 46:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the feasts and in the general assemblies the freewill oblation shall be a meat offering for the calf, and a meat offering for the ram, and for the lambs, as his hand can furnish, and a hin of oil for the meat offering.
Hosea 2:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will take away all her gladness, her feasts, and her festivals at the new moon, and her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
Hosea 9:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What will ye do in the day of the general assembly, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?
Hosea 12:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But I the Lord thy God brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.
Amos 5:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I hate, I reject your feasts, and I will not smell your meat offerings in your general assemblies.
Amos 8:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make them as the mourning of a beloved friend, and those with them as a day of grief.
Nahum 2:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings glad tidings, and publishes peace! O Judah, keep thy feasts, pay thy vows: for they shall no more pass through thee to thy decay.
Zephaniah 3:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The Lord thy God is in thee; the Mighty One shall save thee: he shall bring joy upon thee, and shall refresh thee with his love; and he shall rejoice over thee with delight as in a day of feasting.
Zechariah 8:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord Almighty, The fourth fast, and the fifth fast, and the seventh fast, and the tenth fast, shall be to the house of Judah for joy and gladness, and for good feasts; and ye shall rejoice; and love ye the truth and peace.
Zechariah 14:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall be left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem, shall even come up every year to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if the family of Egypt shall not go up, nor come; then upon them shall be the overthrow with which the Lord shall smite all the nations, whichever of them shall not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
This shall be the sin of Egypt, and the sin of all the nations, whosoever shall not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Malachi 2:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, I turn my back upon you, and I will scatter dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts, and I will carry you away at the same time.
Matthew 26:5 New Testament, KJV
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
Matthew 27:15 New Testament, KJV
Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
Mark 14:2 New Testament, KJV
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
Mark 15:6 New Testament, KJV
Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.
Luke 2:41 New Testament, KJV
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
Luke 2:42 New Testament, KJV
And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.
Luke 22:1 New Testament, KJV
Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
Luke 23:17 New Testament, KJV
(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
John 2:23 New Testament, KJV
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
John 4:45 New Testament, KJV
Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
John 5:1 New Testament, KJV
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 6:4 New Testament, KJV
And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
John 7:2 New Testament, KJV
Now the Jew's feast of tabernacles was at hand.
John 7:8 New Testament, KJV
Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast: for my time is not yet full come.
John 7:10 New Testament, KJV
But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
John 7:11 New Testament, KJV
Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
John 7:14 New Testament, KJV
Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
John 7:37 New Testament, KJV
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
John 11:56 New Testament, KJV
Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
John 12:12 New Testament, KJV
On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
John 12:20 New Testament, KJV
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
John 13:1 New Testament, KJV
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
John 13:29 New Testament, KJV
For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
Acts 18:21 New Testament, KJV
But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
Colossians 2:16 New Testament, KJV
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
1 Esdras 1:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of the Lord accomplished in that day, that they might hold the Passover,
1 Esdras 5:50 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And there were gathered unto them out of the other nations of the land, and they erected the altar upon his own place, because all the nations of the land were at enmity with them, and oppressed them; and they offered sacrifices according to the time, and burnt offerings to the Lord both morning and evening.
1 Esdras 5:51 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Also they held the feast of tabernacles, as it is commanded in the law, and offered sacrifices daily, as was meet:
1 Esdras 7:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, making merry before the Lord,
Judith 8:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And she fasted all the days of her widowhood, save the eves of the Sabbaths, and the Sabbaths, and the eves of the new moons, and the new moons, and the feasts and solemn days of the house of Israel.
Judith 10:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
she rose where she had fallen down, and called her maid, and went down into the house, in the which she abode in the Sabbath days, and in her feast days,
Tobit 1:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it was ordained unto all the people of Israel by an everlasting decree, having the firstfruits and tenths of increase, with that which was first shorn; and them gave I at the altar to the priests the children of Aaron.
Tobit 2:1 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now when I was come home again, and my wife Anna was restored unto me, with my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me; and I sat down to eat.
Tobit 2:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
remembering that prophecy of Amos, as he said, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, And all your mirth into lamentation.
1 Maccabees 1:39 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into reproach, her honor into contempt.
1 Maccabees 1:45 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and forbid burnt offerings, and sacrifice, and drink offerings, in the temple; and that they should profane the Sabbaths and festival days:
1 Maccabees 10:21 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So in the seventh month of the hundred and sixtieth year, at the feast of the tabernacles, Jonathan put on the holy robe, and gathered together forces, and provided much armor.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1859, grouped by book.

Exodus 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezra 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 2 usages, New Testament
Mark 2 usages, New Testament
Luke 4 usages, New Testament
John 15 usages, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
Colossians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G1859 FAQ

What does heorte (ἑορτή) mean?

Heorte (Strong's G1859) is a Greek word most simply glossed "feast". heorte (heh-or-tay') n. 1. a festival [of uncertain affinity]

How many times is heorte (ἑορτή) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 131 linked usages for Strong's G1859 across 36 books.

Where can I study heorte (ἑορτή) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1859 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate heorte (ἑορτή)?

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Does Strong's G1859 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 83 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 22 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G1859, with linked reader references where each row is available.