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Definition of Feast of Weeks

Feast of Weeks
Week Week, n. [OE. weke, wike, woke, wuke AS. weocu, wicu, wucu; akin to OS. wika, OFries. wike, D. week, G. woche, OHG. wohha, wehha, Icel. vika, Sw. vecka, Dan. uge, Goth. wik?, probably originally meaning, a succession or change, and akin to G. wechsel change, L. vicis turn, alternation, and E. weak. Cf. Weak.] A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next. I fast twice in the week. --Luke xviii. 12. Note: Although it [the week] did not enter into the calendar of the Greeks, and was not introduced at Rome till after the reign of Theodesius, it has been employed from time immemorial in almost all Eastern countries. --Encyc. Brit. Feast of Weeks. See Pentecost, 1. Prophetic week, a week of years, or seven years. --Dan. ix. 24. Week day. See under Day.
Feast of Weeks
Pentecost Pen"te*cost, n. [L. pentecoste, Gr. ? (sc. ?) the fiftieth day, Pentecost, fr. ? fiftieth, fr. ? fifty, fr. ? five. See Five, and cf. Pingster.] 1. 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. 2. 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. --Shak.

Meaning of Feast of Week from wikipedia

- 'weeks'), or the feast of weeks, is a jewish holiday that occurs on the sixth day of the hebrew month of sivan (late may or early june
- pentēkostē hēmera, 'the fiftieth day') is the greek name for the feast of weeks , a prominent feast in the calendar of ancient israel
- the term pentecostal is derived from pentecost , the greek name for the jewish feast of weeks . commemorates the descent of the holy spirit
- shavuot—feast of weeks—yom habikurim: file:cheese blintzes with blackberries. jpg , cheese blintz es, a traditional food on shavuot
- counting of the omer , jewish ritual during the forty-nine days between passover and the feast of weeks. and umar etc are variations of the name
- century, and which is devoted entirely to the feast of weeks , being actually called in a vatican library manuscript 'a haggadah for shabu'ot.'
- each to the feast of weeks and new-year , while the older pesiḳta contains one each for Ḥanukkah and the feast of weeks and two for new-year.
- reports that solomon offered burnt-offerings on the feast of weeks. file:northrop feast of trumpets. (illustration from the 1894 treasures of the bible)
- christian churches that determines when feast day s, including celebrations of in the pre-1970 form of the roman rite, the two weeks
- many times special rules for fasting or feasting that correspond to the day of the week or time of year in relationship to the major feast days.