Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.
2. (n.) A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.
3. (n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.
4. (a.) of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.
5. (a.) Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.
Greek
4980. scholazo -- to be at leisure, hence to devote oneself to ... From schole; to take a
holiday, ie Be at leisure for (by implication, devote oneself
wholly to); figuratively, to be vacant (of a house) -- empty, give self.
... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4980.htm - 6k2121. eukairos -- timely
... eukairos Phonetic Spelling: (yoo'-kahee-ros) Short Definition: timely, suitable
Definition: opportune, timely, suitable; perhaps sometimes: holiday, festival. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
2287. chagag -- to make a pilgrimage, keep a pilgrim feast... 1), observe (1), reeled (1). celebrate, dance, keep, hold a solemn feast
holiday, reel to and fro. A primitive root (compare chagra
... /hebrew/2287.htm - 6k 2010. hanachah -- a giving of rest
... 2009, 2010. hanachah. 2011 . a giving of rest. Transliteration: hanachah
Phonetic Spelling: (han-aw-khaw') Short Definition: holiday. ...
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7677. shabbathon -- sabbath observance, sabbatism
... rest, sabbath. From shabbath; a sabbatism or special holiday -- rest, sabbath. see
HEBREW shabbath. 7676, 7677. shabbathon. 7678 . Strong's Numbers.
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6116. atsarah -- an assembly
... solemn assembly meeting. Or matsereth {ats-eh'-reth}; from atsar; an assembly,
especially on a festival or holiday -- (solemn) assembly (meeting). ...
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3117. yom -- day
... 1), ever in your life* (1), every day (2), fate (1), first (5), forever* (11),
forevermore* (1), full (5), full year (1), future* (1), holiday* (3), later* (2 ...
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2896a. tob -- pleasant, agreeable, good
... who (1), good is better (1), good man (3), good men (1), good-looking* (1), gracious
(1), handsome (3), handsome* (1), happy (1), holiday* (3), intelligent* (1 ...
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Library
Off Duty
... 'Tell me about her holidays?' I asked of an old lieutenant. She replied: 'I never
knew Adjutant Lee take a holiday in the usual sense of the word. ...
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Unexpected Orders
... Southend, during holiday season, was the place chosen for the attack.
House-to-house visitation, open-air 'bombardments' among the ...
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Home and the Home-Maker.
... THEIR HOLIDAY. THE WIFE: ... So lock the door of worry, And shut your cares away, Not
time of year, but love and cheer, Will make a holiday. THE HUSBAND: ...
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Christmas and the Aesthetes
... The strange truth about the matter is told in the very word "holiday." A bank
holiday means presumably a day which bankers regard as holy. ...
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Prayer and vigilance
... of men. The life to which Holy Scripture calls men is no picnic, or holiday
junketing. It is no pastime, no pleasure jaunt. It entails ...
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Psalm XLII.
... here on earth; how came you to the sanctuary of the house of God?" he says, "In
the voice of joy and praise; the sound of keeping holiday." Here, when men keep ...
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The victory of Faith.
... him is everything. The holiday promised at a distant interval is no holiday
at all"it must be either now or never. Natural in ...
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Baptism not to be Presumptously Received it Requires Preceding ...
... repentance; for, feeling sure of undoubted pardon of their sins, men meanwhile steal
the intervening time, and make it for themselves into a holiday-time [8467 ...
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Special Efforts
... The Adjutant turned to account every holy day and holiday. She laid herself
out to make Christmas a joy-day for the lonely and poor. ...
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The Entry into Jerusalem.
... No fewer than three million persons are said to have been sometimes packed together
in Jerusalem at the Passover; and all of them being on holiday, were ready ...
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Thesaurus
Holiday (5 Occurrences)... 3. (n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal
holiday. 4. (a.)
of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.
...Holiday (5 Occurrences).
.../h/holiday.htm - 8kHoliday-making (1 Occurrence)
Holiday-making. Holiday, Holiday-making. Holier . Multi-Version
Concordance Holiday-making (1 Occurrence). Esther 9:19 ...
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Liberality (7 Occurrences)
... Esther 2:18 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants,
even Esther's feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave ...
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Grandees (1 Occurrence)
... Mark 6:21 And a holiday being come, when Herod, on his birthday, made a supper to
his grandees, and to the chiliarchs, and the chief men of Galilee; (DBY). ...
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Festal (12 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous;
festive. Multi-Version Concordance Festal (12 Occurrences). ...
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Feast (209 Occurrences)
... see FESTIVALS.). Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A festival; a holiday;
a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. 2. (n ...
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Release (61 Occurrences)
... Some would render "granted a holiday." (3) To set a prisoner or slave at liberty
(apoluo, "to let go free" (Matthew 27:15 parallel John 19:10), etc.). ...
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Eve (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) Evening. 2. (n.) The evening before a holiday, --
from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. ...
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Esther's (4 Occurrences)
... Esther 2:18 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants,
even Esther's feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave ...
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Dress (38 Occurrences)
... 2) the "mantle," also a species of shawl (Isaiah 3:22); (3) a "veil," probably a
light summer dress (Genesis 24:65); (4) a "stomacher," a holiday dress (Isaiah ...
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Resources
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