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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
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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
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Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Sacrificial Feast
• ἀγάπη
• ἀρχιτρίκλινος
• γάμος
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• אָכַל
• זֶבַח
• חַג
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FEAST, n. L. festum.

1. A sumptuous repast or entertainment, of which a number of guests partake particularly, a rich or splendid public entertainment.

On Pharaoh's birth day, he made a feast to all his servants. Genesis 40 .

2. A rich or delicious repast or meal something delicious to the palate.

3. A ceremony of feasting joy and thanksgiving on stated days, in commemoration of some great event, or in honor of some distinguished personage an anniversary, periodical or stated celebration of some event a festival as on occasion of the games in Greece, and the feast of the passover, the feast of Pentecost, and the feast of tabernacles among the Jews.

4. Something delicious and entertaining to the mind or soul as the dispensation of the gospel is called a feast of fat things. Isaiah 25 .

5. That which delights and entertains.

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

Proverbs 15 .

In the English church, feasts are immovable or movable immovable, when they occur on the same day of the year, as Christmas day, &c. and movable, when they are not confined to the same day of the year, as Easter, which regulates many others.

FEAST,

1. To eat sumptuously to dine or sup on rich provisions particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.

And his sons went and feasted in their houses. Job 1 .

2. To be highly gratified or delighted.

FEAST,

1. To entertain with sumptuous provisions to treat at the table magnificently as, he was feasted by the king.

2. To delight to pamper to gratify luxuriously as, to feast the soul.

Whose taste or smell can bless the feasted sense.