Shabuoth

American

[shah-voo-awt, shuh-voo-ohs, -uhs] / ʃɑ vuˈɔt, ʃəˈvu oʊs, -əs /

Or Shabuot

noun

Judaism. Shavuoth.

Shabuoth British

/ ʃavuːˈɔt, -əʊs, ʃəˈvuːəs /

noun

a variant spelling of Shavuot

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Passover ends with the Jewish festival of Shabuoth, celebrated here with songs and readings by Folk Singer Martha Schlamme.

From Time Magazine Archive

Servant of the Lord, 324, 367-375 Seventy languages, 359 Seventy nations, 403, 464 Shabuoth—Feast of the Weeks, 462 Shaddai, 59 Shammai and Shammaite, 235, 335, 418 f.

From Project Gutenberg

This general relation is maintained also in details; in the first place, in the names of the feasts, which are the same in both,—pesah, shabuoth, sukkoth.

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Qacir and shabuoth in like manner are only different names for the same reality, namely, for the feast of the corn-reaping, or, more strictly, the wheat-reaping, which takes place in the beginning of summer.

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