Pentecost Hear it!

Pentecost Definition

Pen·te·cost (pen′tə kôst′, -käst′)

noun

  1. Shavuot
  2. a Christian festival on the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles; Whitsunday

Etymology: ME < LL(Ec) pentecoste < Gr(Ec) pentēkostē (hēmera), the fiftieth (day) after Passover < pentēkonta, fifty < pente, five

Pentecost Synonyms

Pentecost

n.

seventh Sunday after Easter, Whitsunday, festival, the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles.

Pentecost Quotes

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat uponeach ofthem. And they wereall filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

—Bible (NewTestament)