English dictionary, thesaurus, translations & etymology
FreeDict.com

Pentecost in Chinese

Pentecost in Chinese

五旬节
proper noun
A festival which falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter which commemorates the event described in Acts 2 of the Bible when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles during the Jewish festival of Pentecost (sense 1), conferring on them the miraculous ability to explain the gospel in languages they did not know; also, the Sunday on which the festival is celebrated.
Add to Flashcards
Translations from freedict.org/WikDict, CC BY-SA · example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.