Feast of new moon
Special services were appointed for the commencement of a month (Num. 28:11-15; 10:10). (See FESTIVALS.)
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- Feast of souls
noun See Samhain
- Feast-of-tabernacles
noun 1. . noun 1. (Judaism) a literal translation of Sukkoth the third of the great annual festivals of the Jews (Lev. 23:33-43). It is also called the “feast of ingathering” (Ex. 23:16; Deut. 16:13). It was celebrated immediately after the harvest, in the month Tisri, and the celebration lasted for eight days (Lev. 23:33-43). […]
- Feast of the dead
noun See Samhain
- Feast of the dedication
(John 10:22, 42), i.e., the feast of the renewing. It was instituted B.C. 164 to commemorate the purging of the temple after its pollution by Antiochus Epiphanes (B.C. 167), and the rebuilding of the altar after the Syrian invaders had been driven out by Judas Maccabaeus. It lasted for eight days, beginning on the 25th […]