STRONGS NUMBER G4005


Word Summary
pentēkostē: fiftieth, Pentecost, the second of the three great Jewish feasts
Original Word: πεντηκοστή
Transliteration: pentēkostē
Phonetic Spelling: (pen-tay-kos-tay')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: fiftieth, Pentecost, the second of the three great Jewish feasts
Meaning: fiftieth, Pentecost, the second of the three great Jewish feasts
Strong's Concordance
Pentecost.

Feminine of the ordinal of pentekonta; fiftieth (hemera being implied) from Passover, i.e. The festival of "Pentecost" -- Pentecost.

see GREEK pentekonta

see GREEK hemera

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4005: πεντηκοστή

πεντηκοστή, πεντηκοστῆς, (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 ; Hamburger, Real-Encycl. 1, under the word, Wochenfest; Edersheim, The Temple, chapter xiii.)