a year-cycle
| Root | ἔτος (etos) |
| Core Meanings | year, annual cycle, yearly span of time, agricultural year |
| Semantic Range | a calendar year, an agricultural cycle, a period marked by seasons, a year as a measure of age or duration |
| Conceptual Significance | In biblical literature, ἔτος structures sacred and communal life—marking festivals, sabbatical years, jubilees, reigns of kings, and prophetic timeframes. It reflects the cyclical rhythm of covenantal time under divine ordering. |
| Morphological Notes | Gr,N,,,,,ANS = noun, accusative case, neuter gender, singular number. Functions typically as the direct object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions. |
| Rendering Rationale | The noun ἔτος denotes a full annual cycle. Rendering it as "a year-cycle" preserves the concrete sense of a completed yearly span rather than an abstract notion of time. The form is accusative singular neuter, reflected in the singular, direct-object sense of "a year-cycle." |
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