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pentecost::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | feast of weeks, shabuoth, shavous, shavuot, shavuoth |
| Type of | jewish holy day |
| Derivation | pentecostal |
pentecost::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | whitsunday |
| Type of | quarter day |
| Derivation | pentecostal |
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Pentecost is regarded as the birth of the church and God's spiritual presence on Earth.
From the timesunion.com
Pentecost Island is one of the 83 islands that make up the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu.
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Pentecost is also one of the occasions specially appointed for the Lutheran Litany to be sung.
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Pentecost is when we celebrate the origins of the Church.
From the stltoday.com
Pentecost marked the fiftieth day following the Passover, and was a part of the Jewish festival Shavuot.
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Pentecost was first sighted on the day of Pentecost, 22 May 1768, by Louis Antoine de Bougainville.
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Pentecost is the fiftieth and last day of the Easter season.
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Pentecost Island receives regular visits from yachties, who anchor at the villages of Loltong, Waterfall and Panngi.
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Pentecost can't offer a job but invites him to the weekly Tuesday soirees at the downtown hotel where he lives.
From the orlandosentinel.com
- Seventh Sunday after Easter; commemorates the emanation of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles; a quarter day in Scotland
- Shavous: (Judaism) Jewish holy day celebrated on the sixth of Sivan to celebrate Moses receiving the Ten Commandments
- The particular (Jewish) Pentecost 49 days (inclusive) after the resurrection of Jesus on the (Jewish) Day of First Fruits, when (in Christian teaching) the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles with miraculous effects including the ability to explain the Gospel intelligibly in languages they ...
- This term originated in the Old Testament "Feast of Pentecost" which was 50 days after Passover. The Christian Church adopted this term when, on the Feast of Pentecost," the disciples and apostles of Jesus were in an upper room waiting to be "clothed with power from on high" (Luke 24:49). ...
- Of all the records of revival contained in the sacred pages of the Book of God, none reaches such heights and endures to such lengths as the precious outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Acts 2:1-47). ...
- In Hebrew, Shavuot, the celebration of the giving of the Torah.
- This was the religious festival celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter (also called Whitsun). ...
- Forty days after Easter, the disciples "were filled with" the Holy Spirit. This was the beginning or the "birthday" of the church. Pentecost is a day to celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit to the church.
- A Jewish harvest festival, called Sukkot in Hebrew.
