Pentecost是什么意思

Pentecost

英 ['pentikɔst; -kɔ:st] 美

n. （基督教的）圣灵降临节；（犹太人的）五旬节

畅通词汇

中文词源

Pentecost 五旬节，圣灵降临节

来自古英语Pentecosten,五旬节，复活节后五十天，来自拉丁语pentecoste,来自希腊语pentekoste,五十，来自PIE*penkwe-dkomt,五十，来自*penkwe,五，*dkomt,十，词源同December.

英文词源

pentecost: pentecost: see five
Pentecost: 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).

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!

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.

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.

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!

5. We do not know where Philip went after Pentecost.: 我们不知道腓力在五旬节后去了哪里.

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