Lexicon pentékosté: fiftieth, Pentecost, the second of the three great Jewish feasts Original Word: πεντηκοστή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: pentékosté Phonetic Spelling: (pen-tay-kos-tay') Short Definition: Pentecost Definition: Pentecost, a feast of the Jews, the fiftieth day after Passover. HELPS word-Studies 4005 pentēkostḗ (from 4002 /pénte, "five") – properly fiftieth, referring to the festival of Pentecost – a one day festival celebrated at the end of the barley harvest. This was a joyous time of giving great thanks to God. [The workers could only spare one day at this season of the year because the wheat harvest was already in process.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom pentékostos; an ord. num. from pentékontaDefinitionfiftieth, Pentecost, the second of the three great Jewish feasts NASB TranslationPentecost (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4005: πεντηκοστήπεντηκοστή, πεντηκοστῆς, ἡ (namely, ἡμέρα; feminine of πεντηκοστός fiftieth) (from Plato down.), Pentecost (properly, the fiftieth day after the Passover, Tobit 2:1; 2 Macc. 12:32; ( Philo de septen. § 21; de decal. § 30; cf. Winer's Grammar, 26)), the second of the three great Jewish festivals; celebrated at Jerusalem yearly, the seventh week after the Passover, in grateful recognition of the completed harvest ( Exodus 23:16; Leviticus 23:15; Deuteronomy 16:9): Acts 2:1; Acts 20:16; 1 Corinthians 16:8 ( Josephus, Antiquities 3, 10, 6; (14, 13, 4; etc.)). ( BB. DD. (especially Ginsburg in Alex.'s Kitto) under the word ; Hamburger, Real-Encycl. 1, under the word, Wochenfest; Edersheim, The Temple, chapter xiii.)
Strong's Pentecost. Feminine of the ordinal of pentekonta; fiftieth (hemera being implied) from Passover, i.e. The festival of "Pentecost" -- Pentecost. see GREEK pentekonta see GREEK hemera |
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