πεντηκοστή: Difference between revisions

|txtha=πεντηκοστῆς, ἡ ([[namely]], [[ἡμέρα]]; [[feminine]] of [[πεντηκοστός]] [[fiftieth]]) (from [[Plato]] [[down]].), Pentecost ([[properly]], the [[fiftieth]] [[day]] [[after]] the Passover, [[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]] (Josephus, Antiquities 3,10, 6; (14,13, 4; etc.)). (BB. DD. ([[especially]] Ginsburg in Alex.'s Kitto) [[under]] the [[word]] Pentecost>; Hamburger, Real-Encycl. 1, [[under]] the [[word]], Wochenfest; Edersheim, The Temple, [[chapter]] xiii.)