pentecost
IPA: pˈɛntʌkɔst
Root Word: Pentecost
noun
- The Jewish festival of Shavuot.
- The particular (Jewish) Pentecost 49 days (inclusive) after the resurrection of Jesus on the (Jewish) Day of First Fruits, when (in Christian teaching) the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles with miraculous effects including the ability to explain the Gospel intelligibly in languages they did not know; or a similar occasion since.
- The Christian festival (also known as Whitsun or Whitsunday), which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles.
- Pentecostal manifestation, such as in a church service.
- A surname.
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Examples of "pentecost" in Sentences
- Pentecostal fire is not real fire.
- Later accepted pentecostal doctrine.
- Activities after the day of Pentecost.
- Traditionally it's the Pentecost weekend.
- Pentecostalism was quite happy to fill in.
- This was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost.
- Ollie is the son of a Pentecostal preacher.
- On Pentecost the church was filled to capacity.
- Oneness Pentecostals reject the doctrine of the Trinity.
- There can be no removal of pentecostalism from Oneness Pentecostalism.
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