Word

πεντηκοστή

pentēkostḗ · G4005 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Pentecost

    A Jewish harvest festival celebrated on the fiftieth day after Passover

    Examples

    Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

    Acts 20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he would not have to lose time in Asia; for he was hurrying, if it might be possible for him to be in Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

    1 Corinthians 16:8 But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost;

How it’s used In 2 roles

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words
שָׁבוּעַ shâbûwaʻ · H7620 · week
Hebrew name for the same festival (Pentecost = 50 days after Passover = Feast of Weeks/Shavuot), the translation-equivalent in Hebrew Scripture for this Greek festival name
שָׁבוּעַ shâbûwaʻ · H7620 · week
The standard Hebrew name חַג הַשָּׁבֻעוֹת (Feast of Weeks) for the same festival that Greek-speaking Jews called Pentecost, direct translation-equivalent
Semantic domains 1 entry
Pentecost51.8
πεντηκοστή is the proper name for the festival fifty days after Passover. Luke opens his account of the Spirit's outpouring with it: “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place” (Acts 2:1).
Word family 8 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πεντηκοστῆς, ἡ (namely, ἡμέρα; feminine of πεντηκοστός fiftieth) (from Plato down.),…
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 (Ex 23:16; Lev 23:15; Deut 16:9): Acts 2:1; Acts 20:16; 1 Cor 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.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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