• n. （基督教的）圣靈降臨節；（猶太人的）五旬節

來自古英語Pentecosten,五旬節，復活節后五十天，來自拉丁語pentecoste,來自希臘語pentekoste,五十，來自PIE*penkwe-dkomt,五十，來自*penkwe,五，*dkomt,十，詞源同December.

pentecost

pentecost: see five

Pentecost

Old English Pentecosten "Christian festival on seventh Sunday after Easter," from Late Latin pentecoste, from Greek pentekoste (hemera) "fiftieth (day)," fem. of pentekostos, from pentekonta "fifty," from pente "five" (see five). The Hellenic name for the Old Testament Feast of Weeks, a Jewish harvest festival observed on 50th day of the Omer (see Lev. xxiii:16).

1. Pentecost: Feast of the Harvest, first fruits. New life!

五旬節: 收割節, 初熟的果子. 新的生命!

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2. Called Pentecost, Feast of Weeks or Shavuot also called Whitsunday.

叫作圣靈降靈節是禁食的星期或者五旬節也叫作圣靈降靈節.

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3. Pentecostals take their name from the biblical feast of the Pentecost.

五旬節派是以圣經上的五旬節而得名的.

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4. He dared not boast after Pentecost. A powerful witness before God.

五旬節后不敢再自夸, 勇為主作證大有力!

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5. We do not know where Philip went after Pentecost.

我們不知道腓力在五旬節后去了哪里.

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