Lexical Summary pentēkostē: fiftieth, Pentecost, the second of the three great Jewish feasts Original Word: πεντηκοστήTransliteration: pentēkostē Phonetic Spelling: (pen-tay-kos-tay') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: fiftieth, Pentecost, the second of the three great Jewish feasts Meaning: fiftieth, Pentecost, the second of the three great Jewish feasts Strong's Concordance 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 Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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 |
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