Pentecost – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
pentecost
n.
Christian festival celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter
Pentecost
Pentecost (,
Pentekoste [hemera], "the fiftieth [day]") is the
Greek name for
Shavuot (, lit. "Weeks"), the
Feast of Weeks, a prominent feast in the calendar of
ancient Israel celebrating the giving of the
Law to Moses at Sinai. In Christianity, Pentecost is celebrated fifty days after
Easter Sunday,
inclusively (i.e., 49 days with the first day counted, seven weeks), hence its name. In Judaism,
Shavuot is on the sixth day of the Hebrew month of
Sivan (late May or early June). Pentecost falls on the tenth day after
Ascension Thursday (40 days after Easter).
Pentecost
Noun
1. seventh Sunday after Easter; commemorates the emanation of the Holy Spirit to the apostles; a quarter day in Scotland
(synonym) Whitsunday
(hypernym) quarter day
(part-holonym) Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whitweek
2. (Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments
(synonym) Shavous, Shabuoth, Shavuoth, Shavuot, Feast of Weeks
(hypernym) Jewish holy day
(classification) Judaism
Pentecost
(n.)
A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt.
(n.)
A festival of the Roman Catholic and other churches in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles; which occurred on the day of Pentecost; -- called also Whitsunday.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Pentecost
Pentecost [from Greek pentekoste fiftieth day] The seven weeks, or fifty days counting inclusively, after the Hebrew Passover. First fruits of the harvest were offered, and later the day came to be regarded as commemorative of the reception of the law by the Children of Israel fifty days after the departure from Egypt. The Christian churches have taken it over and regard it as commemorative of the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles in tongues of fire, as recorded in the New Testament; and they have made it the seventh Sunday after Easter
