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).
Pentecost 双语例句
1. Pentecost: Feast of the Harvest, first fruits. New life!
五旬节: 收割节, 初熟的果子. 新的生命!
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2. Called Pentecost, Feast of Weeks or Shavuot also called Whitsunday.
叫作圣灵降灵节是禁食的星期或者五旬节也叫作圣灵降灵节.
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3. Pentecostals take their name from the biblical feast of the Pentecost.
五旬节派是以圣经上的五旬节而得名的.
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4. He dared not boast after Pentecost. A powerful witness before God.
五旬节后不敢再自夸, 勇为主作证大有力!
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5. We do not know where Philip went after Pentecost.