📖 Biblical Definition
The Feast of Weeks (Hebrew Shavuot; Greek Pentēkostē, "fiftieth") was the annual feast falling seven weeks (fifty days) after Passover, celebrating the wheat harvest’s first fruits and, in later Jewish tradition, the giving of the law at Sinai (Leviticus 23:15-22; Deuteronomy 16:9-12). It was on this feast that the Holy Spirit was poured out on the gathered disciples in Acts 2, fulfilling the typology: the Sinai-fire of stone-tablet law gave way to the Pentecost-fire of Spirit-written hearts (Jeremiah 31:33; 2 Corinthians 3:3). The wheat first-fruits of Sinai became the human first-fruits of three thousand souls. Pentecost is therefore the New-Covenant Feast of Weeks, fulfilled in the Spirit-born church.
📜 Webster 1828 Definition
Pentecost; harvest-feast 50 days after Passover.
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The annual harvest feast falling fifty days (seven weeks plus a day) after Passover, celebrating the wheat firstfruits with two leavened loaves; the Greek-named Pentecost; the day of the Spirit's outpouring on the church.
📖 Key Scripture
Leviticus 23:15-16 — "And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath... seven sabbaths shall be complete: even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days."
Deuteronomy 16:10 — "Thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God."
Acts 2:1 — "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place."
⚠️ Modern Corruption
Christianized as 'Pentecost' detached from its harvest meaning, missing the firstfruits-of-Spirit theology.
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Christian calendars often reduce Pentecost / Weeks to Acts 2 alone, dropping the harvest-firstfruits dimension that Leviticus 23 builds. The corruption is reading Pentecost as an isolated miracle event rather than as the pre-figured firstfruits-of-Spirit harvest the feast calendar always pointed to.
🔗 Greek & Hebrew Roots
Hebrew Shavuot; Greek Pentekostē.
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['Hebrew', 'H7620', 'shabua', 'week']
['Greek', 'G4005', 'Pentēkostē', 'fiftieth']
Usage
"Pentecost completes the firstfruits cycle."
"Read Acts 2 alongside Leviticus 23."