| 单词 | feast of weeks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFeast (also Festival, Solemnity, etc.) of Weeks Feast (also Festival, Solemnity, etc.) of Weeks n. Judaism (also with lower-case initials) = Shavuot n. Cf. Pentecost n. 1. [Ultimately after Hebrew ḥag šāḇūʿōṯ ( < ḥag festival + šāḇūʿōṯ : see Shavuot n.; (also) with prefixed definite article in the second element, ḥag haššāḇūʿōṯ).] ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > Harvest festival, Pentecost > [noun] PentecostOE Feast of Weeksa1382 Whitsuntidec1384 Shavuot1613 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxxiv. 22 Þe solempnyte of wekis [L. sollemnitatem ebdomadarum]. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Macc. xii. 31 Thei..camen to Jerusalem, the solempne day of weekis [L. die sollemni septimanarum] neiȝinge. 1535 M. Coverdale Exod. xxxiv. 22 The feast of wekes. [So in 1611 and later editions.] 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 20 The feast of Tabernacles, the feast of sweet Bread, and the feast of Weekes. 1644 E. Arnold tr. D. Pareus Comm. Revelation 336 The first of their ripe fruits being then consecrated to God in the feast of weekes. 1683 N. Crouch Surprizing Miracles Nature & Art 14 In the Feast of weeks the Priests heard a man walking in the Temple. 1728 Ceremonies Present Jews 36 The fiftieth day of the Omer is their Feast of Weeks, so called because it is kept at the end of seven Weeks. 1787 D. Shaw Hist. & Philos. Judaism i. i. 117 The feast of weeks was another grand and solemn festival among the Jews. 1846 W. T. Wishart Series of Outl. No. 4. 105 The festival of weeks is specified as one of the stated solemn occasions—2 Chron. VIII. 12, 13. 1891 M. Friedländer Jewish Relig. 393 The Feast of Weeks, the 6th and 7th of Sivan, commemorates..an historical event: the Law-giving on Mount Sinai. 1916 Reform Advocate 10 June 665/1 I shall attend services at the Reform Temple where I am told confirmation exercises will add new impressiveness to the solemnities of the time-honoured Festival of Weeks. 2006 Y. Natan Moon-o-theism I. iv. 467 Shavuot is also called Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost, and occurs in the third month called Sivan. < as lemmas |
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