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Definition :

A solemn festival of the Jews so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day seven weeks after the second day of the Passover which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan hence called also the Feast of Weeks At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt