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ἔτος
étos · Greek · Strong's G2094 · 49 occurrences
The KJV renders 3 different Hebrew and Greek words as “year”
What it means
a year
apparently a primary word;
How the KJV renders it
year
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“year”
also renders eniautós (G1763), shᵉnâh (H8140)
Answers that weigh this word
- Will there be a literal thousand-year reign (the millennium)?
- What does John 8:58 mean ('before Abraham was, I am')?
- Is the rapture biblical?
- Are the dead conscious, or do they sleep until the resurrection?
- What happens to a person immediately after death?
- What is the second death in Revelation?
Where it appears
49 occurrences in the Greek text, first 48 verses shown.
1 Timothy 5:9 · N-GPN
Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
2 Corinthians 12:2 · N-GPN
I know a man in Christ who was caught up into the third heaven fourteen years ago—whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows.
2 Peter 3:8 · N-NPN
But 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.
Acts 4:22 · N-GPN
For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
Acts 7:6 · N-APN
God 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 · N-GPN
“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 7:36 N-APNActs 7:42 N-APNActs 9:33 N-GPNActs 13:20 N-DPNActs 13:21 N-APNActs 19:10 N-APNActs 24:10 N-GPNActs 24:17 N-GPNGalatians 1:18 N-APNGalatians 2:1 N-GPNGalatians 3:17 N-APNHebrews 1:12 N-NPNHebrews 3:9 N-APNHebrews 3:17 N-APNJohn 2:20 N-DPNJohn 5:5 N-APNJohn 8:57 N-APNLuke 2:36 N-APNLuke 2:37 N-GPNLuke 2:41 N-ASNLuke 2:42 N-GPNLuke 3:1 N-DSNLuke 3:23 N-GPNLuke 4:25 N-APNLuke 8:42 N-GPNLuke 8:43 N-GPNLuke 12:19 N-APNLuke 13:7 N-APNLuke 13:8 N-ASNLuke 13:11 N-APNLuke 13:16 N-APNLuke 15:29 N-APNMatthew 9:20 N-APNMark 5:25 N-APNMark 5:42 N-GPNRevelation 20:2 N-APNRevelation 20:3 N-NPNRevelation 20:4 N-APNRevelation 20:5 N-NPNRevelation 20:6 N-APNRevelation 20:7 N-NPNRomans 15:23 N-GPN
Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Greek text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.