Definition of Feast of Dedication

1. Noun. (Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Feast Of Dedication

Faxon
Fay
Faye
Fayette
Fayetteville
Fayyumic
Fc
Fc fragment
Fc piece
Fc receptor
Fc receptors
Fd
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FeLV
Feast of Booths
Feast of Dedication (current term)
Feast of Dormition
Feast of Fools
Feast of Lights
Feast of Sacrifice
Feast of Tabernacles
Feast of Weeks
Feast of the Circumcision
Feast of the Dedication
Feast of the Unleavened Bread
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Literary usage of Feast of Dedication

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Old and New Testament Connected, in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1836)
"... which fell in the middle of winter, this plainly demonstrates, that the feast of dedication, ..."

2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"The Feast of Dedication (mentioned in John x. 22.) was instituted by Judas Maccabaeus, in imitation of those by Solomon and Ezra, as a grateful memorial of ..."

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