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Feast of Dedication

British  

noun

  1. Judaism a literal translation of Chanukah

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Feast of Dedication, not named in the Old Testament.

From Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

It was torn by anxiety as to the fate of her boy, her scholar son, unaccountably absent for the first time from the household ceremonies of the Feast of Dedication.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

It is that loud and turbulent Galilean, That came here at the Feast of Dedication, And stirred the people up to break the Law!

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Feast, of Dedication, 487, 499;   of Tabernacles, 400, 419;   of the Passover, 112, 167;   the traditional Messianic, 538.

From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by Talmage, James Edward

The Feast of Dedication has been proposed by Kepler and Petavius.

From A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by Robertson, Archibald Thomas

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