- πεντηκοστή
- πεντηκοστή, ῆς, ἡ (the subst. fem. of πεντηκοστός ‘fiftieth’ [this term Pla.+; LXX; Tat. 41, 2 and 4], found in Hyperides, Fgm. 106; Andoc. 1, 133; Demosth. 14, 27 al., also in ins and ostraca as t.t. in taxation ἡ πεντηκοστή [i.e. μερίς] ‘the fiftieth part’=two percent) in our lit. Pentecost (really ἡ π. ἡμέρα, because it means the festival celebrated on the fiftieth day after Passover [=חַג שָׁבֻעוֹת ‘feast of weeks’ Dt 16:10]; rabb. חַג חֲמִשִּׁים יוֹם ‘feast of 50 days’.—Tob 2:1; 2 Macc 12:32; Philo, Decal. 160, Spec. Leg. 2, 176; Jos., Ant. 3, 252; 13, 252; 14, 337; 17, 254, Bell. 1, 253; 2, 42; 6, 299) ἕως τῆς π. until Pentecost 1 Cor 16:8. ἡ ἡμέρα τῆς π. the Day of Pentecost Ac 2:1; 20:16.—WRoscher, Die Zahl 50: Abh. der Sächs. Ges. d. Wiss. XXXIII 5, 1917; Billerb. II 597ff; CErdman, The Mng. of Pentecost: Bibl. Review 15, 1930, 491–508; KLake, Gift of the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost: Beginn. I/5, ’33, 111–21; NAdler, D. erste chr. Pfingstfest ’38; Haenchen ad loc.—DELG s.v. πέντε. M-M. EDNT. TW.
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