Shavuoth
[
Sephardic Hebrew
shah-voo-
awt
;
Ashkenazic Hebrew
sh
uh
-
voo
-ohs, -
uh
s]
/
Sephardic Hebrew
ʃɑ vuˈɔt;
Ashkenazic Hebrew
ʃəˈvu oʊs, -əs/
noun
,
Judaism.
1.
a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
Also,
Shavuot,
Shavuos,
Shabuoth
,
Shabuot
.
Also called
Feast of Weeks,
Pentecost
.
Origin
1890-95;
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Hebrew
Shābhūʿōth
literally, weeks