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16 Bible Verses About Dedication

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  • The Hebrew verb chanak is used for Solomon’s dedication of the temple (1 Kings 8:63), for dedicating a new house (Deuteronomy 20:5) and for starting a child off in Proverbs 22:6.
  • The Nazirite vow of dedication in Numbers 6 was open to a man or woman, lasted a set period, and treated uncut hair as “the symbol of their dedication to God.”
  • Hannah vowed that no razor would be used on her son’s head (1 Samuel 1:11) and gave him over “for his whole life” (1 Samuel 1:28).
  • John 10:22-23 places Jesus in the temple courts at the Festival of Dedication, the feast later called Hanukkah.
  • Romans 12:1 applies the language of sacrifice to the believer’s own body, offered alive.

In the Bible, dedication means setting something or someone apart for God. Solomon dedicates the temple in 1 Kings 8, Hannah gives her son to the Lord in 1 Samuel 1, and Romans 12:1 asks believers to offer their own bodies as a living sacrifice. The Hebrew verb for dedicating the temple is chanak, and its noun chanukkah names the dedication of the altar in Numbers 7:10 and of Jerusalem’s wall in Nehemiah 12:27. Deuteronomy 6:5 asks for love of…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 2596, חָנַךְ (chanak): to train, dedicate, inaugurate; used in Deuteronomy 20:5, 1 Kings 8:63 and Proverbs 22:6. biblehub.com/hebrew/2596

Strong’s Hebrew 2598, חֲנֻכָּה (chanukkah): dedication; used of the altar in Numbers 7:10 and the wall of Jerusalem in Nehemiah 12:27. biblehub.com/hebrew/2598

Strong’s Greek 1456, ἐγκαίνια (enkainia): the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah) in John 10:22; the entry’s Topical Lexicon links the feast to the rededication of the temple by Judas Maccabeus (1 Maccabees 4:36-59). biblehub.com/greek/1456

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