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What does the Hebrew word Hanukkah mean?
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Hanukkah
Lighting the menorah in celebration of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.
In Hebrew, the word Hanukkah means "dedication".1
The name refers to the Maccabees' historical achievement of purifying and rededicating the Temple of Jerusalem to God in 164 bce, following its desecration by the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes.21