“Inaugurate” is translated from the Hebrew verb cha·nakhʹ (noun form, chanuk·kahʹ)

To this day the Jews annually celebrate what they call Hanukkah in the month of December. This is in remembrance of the inauguration (Heb., chanuk·kahʹ) festival that followed the cleansing of the temple by Judas Maccabaeus in 165 B.C.E. after it had been polluted by Antiochus IV Epiphanes.​—Joh 10:22; see FESTIVAL OF DEDICATION.