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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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Châg (חָג, Strong's #2282), “feast; festal sacrifice.” Cognates of this noun appear in Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic. Biblical Hebrew attests it about 62 times and in all periods, except in the wisdom literature.

This word refers especially to a “feast observed by a pilgrimage.” That is its meaning in its first biblical occurrence, when Moses said to Pharaoh: “We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our Rocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the Lord” (Exod. 10:9). ) Châg (or chag) usually represents Israel’s three annual “pilgrimage feasts,” which were celebrated with processions and dances. These special feasts are distinguished from the sacred seasons (“festal assemblies”—Ezek. 45:17), the new moon festivals, and the Sabbaths (Hos. 2:11).

There are two unique uses of châg. First, Aaron proclaimed a “feast to the Lord” at the foot of Mt. Sinai. This “feast” involved no pilgrimage but was celebrated with burnt offerings, communal meals, singing, and dancing. The whole matter was displeasing to God (Exod. 32:5-7).

In two passages, châg represents the “victim sacrificed to God” (perhaps during one of the three annual sacrifices): “… Bind the [festal] sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar” (Ps. 118:27; cf. Exod. 23:18).