4005. pentékosté

Lexicon

pentékosté: Pentecost

Original Word: πεντηκοστή
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: pentékosté
Pronunciation: pen-tay-kos-TAY
Phonetic Spelling: (pen-tay-kos-tay')
Definition: Pentecost
Meaning: Pentecost, a feast of the Jews, the fiftieth day after Passover.

Strong's Exhaustive 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

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.]

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from pentékostos; an ord. num. from pentékonta
Definition
fiftieth, Pentecost, the second of the three great Jewish feasts
NASB Translation
Pentecost (3).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 4005: πεντηκοστή

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

Topical Lexicon

Word Origin: Derived from the ordinal number πεντηκοστός (pentēkostos), meaning "fiftieth."

Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: The corresponding Hebrew term for Pentecost is שָׁבוּעוֹת (Shavuot), which is not directly listed in Strong's Concordance but is related to the Hebrew word for "weeks," שָׁבוּעַ (shavu'a), Strong's Hebrew 7620.

Usage: The word πεντηκοστή is used in the New Testament to describe the day of Pentecost, particularly in the context of the events recorded in the Book of Acts.

Context: Pentecost, or πεντηκοστή, is a pivotal event in both Jewish and Christian traditions. In the Jewish tradition, Pentecost is celebrated as the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot), occurring fifty days after Passover. It is a harvest festival that also commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai.

In the Christian tradition, Pentecost holds profound significance as it marks the birth of the Church. According to Acts 2:1-4 (BSB), "When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw tongues like flames of a fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them."

This event fulfilled Jesus' promise of the Holy Spirit (John 14:16-17, BSB) and empowered the apostles to preach the gospel to all nations. The day of Pentecost is thus seen as the inauguration of the new covenant community, the Church, and is celebrated by Christians as a reminder of the Holy Spirit's ongoing presence and work in the world.

Forms and Transliterations

πεντηκοστης πεντηκοστής πεντηκοστῆς πεντηκοστόν πεντηκοστώ πέπειροι pentekostes pentekostês pentēkostēs pentēkostē̂s

Englishman's Concordance

Acts 2:1 N-GFS
GRK: ἡμέραν τῆς πεντηκοστῆς ἦσαν πάντες
NAS: the day of Pentecost had come,
KJV: the day of Pentecost was fully come,
INT: day of Pentecost they were all

Acts 20:16 N-GFS
GRK: ἡμέραν τῆς πεντηκοστῆς γενέσθαι εἰς
NAS: possible, on the day of Pentecost.
KJV: Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
INT: day of Pentecost to be in

1 Corinthians 16:8 N-GFS
GRK: ἕως τῆς πεντηκοστῆς
NAS: in Ephesus until Pentecost;
KJV: Ephesus until Pentecost.
INT: until Pentecost

Strong's Greek 4005
3 Occurrences

πεντηκοστῆς — 3 Occ.