Strong's Concordance
pentékosté: fiftieth, Pentecost, the second of the three great Jewish feasts
Original Word: πεντηκοστή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: pentékosté
Phonetic Spelling: (pen-tay-kos-tay')
Short Definition: Pentecost
Definition: Pentecost, a feast of the Jews, the fiftieth day after Passover.
HELPS Word-studies
4005 pentēkostḗ (from 4002 /pénte, "five") – properly fiftieth, referring to the festival of Pentecost – a one day festival celebrated at the end of the barley harvest. This was a joyous time of giving great thanks to God.
[The workers could only spare one day at this season of the year because the wheat harvest was already in process.]
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4005: πεντηκοστήπεντηκοστή,
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 (
Exodus 23:16;
Leviticus 23:15;
Deuteronomy 16:9):
Acts 2:1;
Acts 20:16;
1 Corinthians 16:8 (
Josephus, Antiquities 3, 10, 6; (14, 13, 4; etc.)). (
BB. DD. (especially Ginsburg in Alex.'s Kitto) under the word
