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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Tabernacles, Feast of
• Ingathering, Feast of
• Feasts
Scofield Reference Index
• Feasts
Thompson Chain Reference
• Weeks, Feast of
• Wedding Feasts
• Tabernacles, Feast of
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Feasts
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Feasts, the Anniversary
• Feasts of Trumpets, the
• Feast of the Passover, the
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Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Movable Feasts and Fasts
• Matthias, Feast of Saint
• Matthew, Feast of Saint
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American Tract Society
• Feasts
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Feasts
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Weeks, Feast of
• Unleavened Bread, Feast of
• Tabernacles, Feast of
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Charles Buck Dictionary
• Love Feasts
• Feast of Asses
• Feast
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Weeks, Feast of
• Trumpets, Feast of
• Tabernacles, Feast of
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Trumpets, Feast of
• Tabernacles, Feast of
• Feasts
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Love Feast (2)
• Love Feast
• Lights, Feast of
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Weeks, Feast of
• Trumpets, Feast of
• Tabernacles, Feast of
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Tabernacles, Feast of
• Love-Feast
• Feasts
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King James Dictionary
• Feasting
• Feasted
• Feast
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Weeks, Feast of
• Unleavened Bread, Feast of
• Trumpets, Feast of
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Trumpets, Feast of
• Triumph of the Cross, Feast of the
• Simple Feast
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Feasts
People's Bible Dictionary
• Weeks Feast of
• Trumpets Feast of
• Tabernacles Feast of
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Smith Bible Dictionary
• Trumpets Feast of
• Tabernacles The Feast of
• Love Feasts
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Love Feasts
• Feast
• Feast
Webster Dictionary
• Smell-Feast
• Feasting
• Feastful
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Feasts
• Love-Feasts
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Bean-Feast
• Feast of Assumption
• Feast of Corpus Christi
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Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia
• Sabbath and Feasts
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Booths, Feast of
• Dedication, Feast of
• Fasts and Feasts
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Feasts
• Lots Feast of
• Love Feast
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Annunciation, Feast of the
• Asses, Feast of
• Dedication, the Feast of the
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Assumption, Feast of the
• Barmacide Feast
• Feasts, Jewish, of Dedication
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Ecclesiastical Feasts
• Eve of a Feast
• Feast of Asses
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Dedication Feast
• Esther, Feast of
• Feasts
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Lexicons
• ܚܫܳܡܺܝܬ݂ܳܐ
• ܡܶܫܬ݁ܽܘܬ݂ܳܐ
• ܣܳܡܟ݁ܳܐ
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Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Sacrificial Feast
• ἀγάπη
• ἀρχιτρίκλινος
• γάμος
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• אָכַל
• זֶבַח
• חַג
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In a religious sense is a ceremony of feasting and thanksgiving. The principal feasts of the Jews were the feasts of trumpets, of expiation, of tabernacles, or the dedication, of the passover, of Pentecost, and that of purification. Feasts, and the ceremonies thereof, have made great part of the religion of almost all nations and sects; hence the Greeks, the Romans, Mahometans, and Christians, have not been without them. Feasts, among us, are either immoveable or moveable. Immoveable feasts are those constantly celebrated on the same day of the year. The principal of these are Christmas-day, Circumcision, Epiphany, Candlemas or Purification; Lady-day, or the annunciation, called also the incarnation and conception; All Saints and All Souls; besides the days of the several apostles, as St. Thomas, St. Paul. Moveable feasts are those which are not confined to the same day of the year.

Of these the principal is Easter, which gives law to all the rest, all of them following and keeping their proper distances from it. Such are Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Sexagesima, Ascension-day, Pentecost, and Trinity Sunday. Besides these feasts, which are general, and enjoined by the church, there are others focal and occasional, enjoined by the magistrate, or voluntarily set on foot by the people; such are the days of thanksgiving for delivery from war, plagues, &c.; such also are the vigils or wakes in commemoration of the dedication of particular churches. The prodigious increase of feast-days in the Christian church, commenced towards the close of the fourth century, occasioned by the discovery that was made of the remains of martyrs, and other holy men, for the commemoration of whom they were established. These, instead of being set apart for pious exercises, were abused in indolence, voluptuousness, and criminal practices. Many of them were instituted on a pagan model, and perverted to similar purposes.

See HOLY DAY.