PENTECOST
i.e., "fiftieth", found only in the New Testament (Acts 2:1;20:16; 1-Cor 16:8). The festival so named is first spoken of in Exo 23:16 as "the feast of harvest," and again in Exo 34:22 as "the day of the firstfruits" (Num. 28:26). From the sixteenth of the month of Nisan (the second day of the Passover), seven complete weeks, i.e., forty-nine days, were to be reckoned, and this feast was held on th......