ἔτος etos

Greek word for “year” · Strong’s G2094 · used 49 times in 48 verses

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Meaning

ἔτος, -ους, τό; a year:, al.;

How it is translated

Glosses given for etos in context, with how often each is used:

• years 40
• years old 4
• year 3
• than years old 1
• years? 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Revelation 20 (6), Luke 2 (4), Luke 13 (4), Acts 7 (4), Mark 5 (2), Luke 3 (2), Luke 8 (2), Acts 13 (2), Acts 24 (2), Hebrews 3 (2)

Forms

• ἔτη 29
• ἐτῶν 15
• ἔτος 2
• ἔτεσιν 2
• ἔτει 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with etos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• τεσσαράκοντα tessarakonta “forty” 8
• χίλιοι chilioi “thousand” 7
• δώδεκα dōdeka “twelve” 6
• μετά meta “with/after” 9
• τετρακόσιοι tetrakosioi “four hundred” 3
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 7
• ὀκτώ oktō “eight” 3
• ἔρημος erēmos “deserted” 4
• τριάκοντα triakonta “thirty” 3
• τρεῖς treis “Three” 4
• ἰδού idou “look!” 5
• γυνή gunē “woman” 5

Key verses

The verses using etos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 2:37 — And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
• Luke 3:1 — Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip…
• Luke 12:19 — And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
• Acts 7:30 — And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
• Acts 7:36 — He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
• Acts 7:42 — Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me…
• Acts 19:10 — And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
• 2 Corinthians 12:2 — I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one…
• Galatians 3:17 — And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it…
• Revelation 20:2 — And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
• Revelation 20:4 — And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for…
• Revelation 20:6 — Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.