Pentecost

English 2025 June 8 Etymology en pénkʷe en déḱm̥ thumb|Anthony van Dyck, Outpouring of the Holy Ghost (Pentecost) (between 1618 and 1620).n n1 From the collection of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany. The painting depicts Pentecost (en event), the event described in Acts 2 of the Bible when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles during the Jewish festival of Shavuot, also called Pentecost (en Judaism). From en enm Pentecoste feast of the descent of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost; season of Pentecost, Whitsuntide; Jewish festival celebrating giving of the law to Moses,pente-cost(e n MED32878 from en ang Pentecosten,Pentecosten 773 1 also influenced by en xno pentecoste, en frm pentecoste, and en fro pentecoste Christian feast of Pentecost; Jewish festival of Pentecost (modern fr Pentecôte). Both the Old English and Old French words are derived from en la-ecc Pentēcostē Christian feast of Pentecost; Jewish festival of Pentecost, from en grc-koi πεντηκοστή Christian feast of Pentecost; Jewish festival of Pentecost, from en grc πεντηκοστή fiftieth, a noun use of the feminine form of grc πεντηκοστὸς fiftieth a, short for grc πεντηκοστὸς ἡμέρα fiftieth day (referring to the Jewish festival falling on the fiftieth day after the second day of the Passover), used in the Bible to translate he שָׁבוּעוֹת shāvū'ót weeks.Compare n 3530396299 March 2025 1; n grc Πεντηκοστὸς is derived from en grk-pro *penkʷēkontstós, from grk-pro *pénkʷe five (from en ine-pro *pénkʷe five; hand) + grk-pro *-kontstós suffix forming ordinal numbers from twentieth to ninetieth (whence grc-boi ‑καστός; from ine-pro *déḱm̥ ten). The surname is from en fro,enm Pentecost, a personal name perhaps given to one born on Pentecost; also an altered form of en Pankhurst. Compare en Pancoast. Compare also en Pinkster, a cognate borrowed from nl - sometimes used regionally or archaically. Pronunciation en /ˈpɛntɪkɒst/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Pentecost.wav Southern England en /ˈpɛntəˌkɔst/ GA /-ˌkɑst/ cot-caught [-ɾə-] en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-Pentecost.wav GA /ˈpɛntəˌkɔst/ en Pen te cost Proper noun s en Judaismen Judaism en Shavuot a Jewish harvest festival which falls on the sixth day of Sivan in the spring, fifty days after the second day of the Passover when the en omer sheaf of barley is offered; a ceremony held on that day to commemorate the giving of the en Torah first five books of the Hebrew scriptures to Moses and the Israelites on Mount Sinai. en Feast of Weeks Shavuos Tobit II 1 405 1 1 Novv vvhen I vvas come home againe, & my vvife Anna vvas reſtored vnto me vvith my ſonne Tobias, in the feaſt of Pentecoſte, vvhich is the holy feaſt of the ſeuen vvekes, there vvas a great dinner prepared me, in the vvhich I ſate dovvne to eat. Acts 2 1–4 [L6] 1348 2 And when the day of Pentecoſt was fully come, they the Apostles were all with one accord in one place. And ſuddenly there came a ſound from heauen as of a ruſhing mighty wind, and it filled all the houſe where they were ſitting. And there appeared vnto them clouen tongues, like as of fire, and it ſate vpon each of them. And they were all filled with the holy Ghoſt, and began to ſpeake with other tongues, as the ſpirit gaue them vtterance. en 1710 w:Charles Wheatly Of the Sundays and Holydays and Their Epistles and Gospels, &c. The Church of England Man’s Companion; or A Rational Illustration of the Harmony, Excellency, and Usefulness of the Book of Common Prayer, &c.Wherein All the Rubricks, Prayers, Rites and Ceremonies, &c. are Explain’d, Vindicated, and Compar’d with the Ancient Liturgies, and the Practices of the Primitive Church. To which is Prefix’s an Introductory Discourse, Shewing the Lawfulness and Necessity of a National Precompos’d Liturgy. Oxford, Oxfordshire Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater, for Anth[ony] Peisley; [a]nd are to be sold by J. Knapton, H. Clements and J. Morphew,booksellers in London. section 23 (Of Whitsunday), § 4 96 https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=tfrf0F0iDAQC&pg=PA96 1204941243 The firſt Leſſon for the Morning contains the Lavv of the Jevviſh Pentecoſt or Feaſt of VVeeks, vvhich vvas a Type of ours; for as the Lavv vvas at this time given to the Jevvs from Mount Sinai, ſo alſo the Chriſtians upon this day receiv'd the nevv Evangelical Lavv from Heaven, by the adminiſtration of the Holy Ghoſt. I The Sons of the Covenant 259 They ate unleavened bread in Passover, and blessed the moon, and counted the days of the Omer till Pentecost saw the synagogue dressed with flowers in celebration of an Asiatic fruit harvest by a European people divorced from agriculture; en 1990 Alfred J[acob] Kolatch The Spring Holidays II: Shavuot The Jewish Home Advisor Middle Village, New York, N.Y. Jonathan David Publishers 243 https://archive.org/details/jewishhomeadviso0000kola/page/243/mode/1up 978-0-8246-0344-1 Because Shavuot is celebrated on the fiftieth day after the advent of Passover, it has been called Pentecost, a Greek word meaning “fiftieth [day] after Passover". The Hebrew date is the sixth of Sivan. en Christianity en by extension Christianity en Q3446130 A festival which falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter which commemorates the event described in Acts 2 of the Bible when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles during the Jewish festival of Pentecost (en Judaism), conferring on them the miraculous ability to explain the gospel in languages they did not know; also, the Sunday on which the festival is celebrated. Sunday of the festival en Whit<id:Q3446130> Whitsun<id:Q3446130> Whitsunday<id:Q3446130> Whit Sunday<id:Q3446130> Q2 I v C2 25 1. Capulet. [G]ood Cozin Capulet, / For you and I are paſt our dauncing dayes: / Hovv long iſt novv ſince laſt your ſelfe and I / VVere in a maske? / 2. Capu. Be'r By our lady thirtie yeares. / 1. Capu. VVhat man tis not ſo much, tis not ſo much, / Tis ſince the nuptiall of Lucientio: / Come Pentycoſt as quickly as it vvill, / Some fiue and tvventy yeares, and then vve maske. II The Motives, Progress, and Effects of the Conversion of Constantine—Legal Establishment and Constitution of the Christian or Catholic Church 205 The ſacrament of baptiſm vvas regularly adminiſtered by the biſhop himſelf, vvith his aſſiſtant clergy, in the cathedral church of the dioceſe, during the fifty days betvveen the ſolemn feſtivals of Eaſter and Pentecoſt; and this holy term admitted a numerous band of infants and adult perſons into the boſom of the church. en 1767 w:Richard Burn Pentecostals Ecclesiastical Law.[...] The Second Edition. In Four Volumes. 2nd Printed by H[enry Sampson] Woodfall and W[illiam] Strahan,law-printers to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty; for A[ndrew] Millar; and sold by T[homas] Cadell,opposite Catherine-Street, in the Strand. III 80 https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_ecclesiastical-law-by-r_burn-richard_1767_3/page/80/mode/1up 1401248491 [I]n a remarkable grant of king Henry the eighth to the deal and chapter of VVorceſter he makes over to them all thoſe oblations and obventions, or ſpiritual profits, commonly called vvhitſun-farthings, yearly collected or received of divers tovvns vvithin the archdeaconry of VVorceſter, and offered at the time of pentecoſt. The Children of the Lord's Supper 1 59 Pentecost, day of rejoicing, had come. The church of our village / Stood gleaming white in the morning's sheen. en 1997 Alister E[dgar] McGrath The Christian Year An Introduction to Christianity Cambridge, Mass.; Oxford, Oxfordshire Blackwell Publishers part IV (The Christian Way) 386 https://archive.org/details/introductiontoch0000mcgr/page/386/mode/1up 978-0-631-20195-3 The specific event which is commemorated at Pentecost is the coming of the Holy Spirit, which is described in the Acts of the Apostles. Luke's description of the event focuses on the impact of the event: the disciples were empowered to preach the gospel, and to break down the barriers of language separating them and their audiences. en 2005 Michael Hilton Shavuot w:Edward Kessler; Neil Wenborn A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations Cambridge, Cambridgeshire w:Cambridge University Press 2008 403 https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofjewi0000unse_g7z0/page/403/mode/1up 1 978-0-521-73078-5 Shavuot is linked to Passover in the same way that Pentecost is linked to Easter, by a period of seven weeks. en event In full day of Pentecost or Pentecost day: the day on which the event commemorated by the festival (en Christianity) occurred; also, the event itself. Of the Number, Antiquity, Scope, Authority, and Interpreters of the Books of Holy Scripture 204–205 205 [T]heſe three at ſeveral times did repreſent the perſon of God: Moſes, and his succeſſors the High Prieſts, and Kings of Judah, in the Old Teſtament: Chriſt himſelf, in the time he lived on earth: and the Apoſtles, and their succeſſors, from the day of Pentecoſt (vvhen the Holy Ghoſt deſcended on them) to this day. en 1765 Anthony Vadé [pseudonym; Voltaire, actually François-Marie Arouet] Discourse Addressed to the Welsh. By Anthony Vade, brother of William. T[obias] Smollett; T[homas] Francklin [et al.] The Works of M. de Voltaire.Translated from the French: With Notes, Historical and Critical, by T. Smollett, M.D. T. Francklin, M.A. and Others. London Printed for J[ohn] Newbery, R[oberts] Baldwin, W. Johnston, S. Crowder, T[homas] Davies, J. Coote, G. Kearsley, and B. Collins,at Salisbury. XXV 115 https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-works-of-m-de-volta_voltaire_1761_19-25/page/115/mode/1up 1051547575 But pray in vvhat language did Remi preach to theſe Bructeri and Sicambri? He ſpoke either Latin or VVelſh; and the Sicambri ſpoke the antient Teutonic. Remi, in all appearance, renevved the miracle of the Pentecoſt: Et unuſquiſquis intendebat linguam ſuam, And each underſtood his ovvn language. I The Introduction: Containing a View of the Principal Arguments against the Doctrines of the Divinity and Pre-existence of Christ II (An Argument for the Late Origin of the Doctrines of the Divinity and Pre-existence of Christ,from the Difficulty of Tracing the Time in which They were First Divulged.) 28 If it be ſuppoſed that the divinity of Chriſt vvas unknovvn to the apoſtles till the day of Pentecoſt; beſides loſing the benefit of ſeveral argments for this great doctrine, vvhich are novv carefully collected from the four evangeliſts, vve have no account of any ſuch diſcovery having been made at that time, or at any ſubſequent one. 4th The Witness of the Heretics 250 This learned scholar William Ralph Inge says that Pentecost was the occasion for the first founding of an ecclesiastical, dogmatic and despotic Church utterly alien to the simple ideals of Jesus of Nazareth. en holiday that begins on Q3446130 en Whitsuntide the week beginning on Whitsunday; also, the weekend which includes Whitsunday. en by extension The gift of the Holy Spirit to a Christian; also, the occurrence of this. The Problem 19 Ever the fiery Pentecost / Girds with one flame the countless host, / Trances the heart through chanting choirs, / And through the priest the mind inspires. en 2005 Frank J Lechner; John Boli Expanding World Culture: Pentecostalism as a Global Movement World Culture: Origins and Consequences Malden, Mass.; Oxford, Oxfordshire Blackwell Publishing 177 https://archive.org/details/worldcultureorig0000lech/page/177/mode/1up 978-0-631-22676-5 Pentacostals claim to have a universal message. They think a new Pentecost is afoot, in which the Holy Spirit brings millions the good news of salvation in the hereafter and real blessings in the here and now. en 2012 w:Nimi Wariboko The Promise of the Pentecostal Principle: Religion as Play The Pentecostal Principle: Ethical Methodology in New Spirit Grand Rapids, Mich.; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire w:William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 194 https://books.google.com/books?id=0lTQ-n1C650C&pg=PA194 978-0-8028-6697-4 Pentecost and pentecosts (as specific works of the Holy Spirit) are the sinew between—and the nisus of—Jesus' resurrection and the future resurrection of humankind. If resurrection is the seed, pentecost is the harvest: [T]he future resurrection of humankind is both revealed in and is the ground of the past Pentecost and ongoing pentecosts. en surname en. Derived terms en Christian Pentecost Eastern Orthodox Pentecost Jewish Pentecost Pentecost Island Pentecost Monday Pentecost Sunday Pentecost Tuesday Related terms en penteconter Pentecostal Pentecostalism Pentecostalist pentecoster pentekostys Descendants ja ペンテコステ Pentekosuto 1 mi Petekoha 1 Translations synonym of Shavuot Shavuot festival which falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter; day on which the event commemorated by the festival occurred; the event itself Finnish: fi helluntai French: fr Polish: pl Zielone Świątki nv-p Sunday on which the feast or festival of Pentecost falls (cognates) Whitsunday Afrikaans: af Pinkstersondag Bulgarian: bg петдесе́тница f Catalan: ca Pentecosta f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 五旬節, cmn 聖靈降臨節 Danish: da pinsedag c, da pinse c Dutch: nl Pinksteren m Esperanto: eo Pentekosto French: fr Pentecôte f Frisian: West Frisian: fy Pinkster German: de Pfingstsonntag m, de Pfingsten n, de Pfingstfest n, de Pfingsttag m Greek: el Πεντηκοστή f Ancient Greek: grc Πεντηκοστή f Hindi: hi पिंतेकुस्त Hungarian: hu pünkösdvasárnap, hu pünkösd Indonesian: id pentakosta Italian: it Pentecoste f Japanese: ja ペンテコステ Pentekosuto Macedonian: mk Педесе́тница f Malayalam: ml പെന്തക്കൊസ്താ Manchu: mnc ᠰᡠᠰᠠᡳᠴᡳ ᡳᠨᡝᠩᡤᡳ Māori: mi Petekoha Norman: nrf Pentecôte f Norwegian: Bokmål: nb pinse m f Nynorsk: nn pins m f, nn pinse m f Pannonian Rusyn: rsk Русадля n-p Plautdietsch: pdt Pinjstdach m Polish: pl Pięćdziesiątnica f Portuguese: pt Pentecostes m, pt Pentecoste m Romanian: ro Rusalii Russian: ru пятидеся́тница f Spanish: es Pentecostés Swedish: sv pingst c, sv pingstdagen c Tagalog: tl Pentekostes Turkish: tr Pankot, tr Pentekost, tr Pentikost Ukrainian: uk П'ятдеся́тниця f Vietnamese: vi Lễ Chúa Thánh Thần Hiện Xuống, vi Lễ Hiện Xuống, vi Lễ Giáng Xuống , vi Lễ Hạ Trần, vi Lễ Ngũ Tuần Volapük: vo pint Welsh: cy Pentecost m synonym of Whitsuntide Whitsuntide gift of the Holy Spirit to a Christian; occurrence of this Finnish: fi helluntai French: fr Polish: pl Zielone Świątki nv-p Notes n References Further reading en Holidays Middle English Proper noun enm proper noun 1 enm Pentecoste