Bible Dictionary: Holiday

◄ Holiday ►

Jump to: Webster's • Concordance • Thesaurus • Greek • Hebrew • Library • Subtopics • Terms

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.

2. (n.) A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.

3. (n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.

4. (a.) of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.

5. (a.) Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.

Greek

4980. scholazo -- to be at leisure, hence to devote oneself to
... From schole; to take a holiday, ie Be at leisure for (by implication, devote oneself
wholly to); figuratively, to be vacant (of a house) -- empty, give self. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4980.htm - 6k

2121. eukairos -- timely
... eukairos Phonetic Spelling: (yoo'-kahee-ros) Short Definition: timely, suitable
Definition: opportune, timely, suitable; perhaps sometimes: holiday, festival. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2121.htm - 6k

Strong's Hebrew

2287. chagag -- to make a pilgrimage, keep a pilgrim feast
... 1), observe (1), reeled (1). celebrate, dance, keep, hold a solemn feast
holiday, reel to and fro. A primitive root (compare chagra ...
/hebrew/2287.htm - 6k

2010. hanachah -- a giving of rest
... 2009, 2010. hanachah. 2011 . a giving of rest. Transliteration: hanachah
Phonetic Spelling: (han-aw-khaw') Short Definition: holiday. ...
/hebrew/2010.htm - 6k

7677. shabbathon -- sabbath observance, sabbatism
... rest, sabbath. From shabbath; a sabbatism or special holiday -- rest, sabbath. see
HEBREW shabbath. 7676, 7677. shabbathon. 7678 . Strong's Numbers.
/hebrew/7677.htm - 6k

6116. atsarah -- an assembly
... solemn assembly meeting. Or matsereth {ats-eh'-reth}; from atsar; an assembly,
especially on a festival or holiday -- (solemn) assembly (meeting). ...
/hebrew/6116.htm - 6k

3117. yom -- day
... 1), ever in your life* (1), every day (2), fate (1), first (5), forever* (11),
forevermore* (1), full (5), full year (1), future* (1), holiday* (3), later* (2 ...
/hebrew/3117.htm - 7k

2896a. tob -- pleasant, agreeable, good
... who (1), good is better (1), good man (3), good men (1), good-looking* (1), gracious
(1), handsome (3), handsome* (1), happy (1), holiday* (3), intelligent* (1 ...
/hebrew/2896a.htm - 6k

Library

Off Duty
... 'Tell me about her holidays?' I asked of an old lieutenant. She replied: 'I never
knew Adjutant Lee take a holiday in the usual sense of the word. ...
/.../carpenter/the angel adjutant of twice born men/xiv off duty.htm

Unexpected Orders
... Southend, during holiday season, was the place chosen for the attack.
House-to-house visitation, open-air 'bombardments' among the ...
/.../carpenter/the angel adjutant of twice born men/xvi unexpected orders.htm

Home and the Home-Maker.
... THEIR HOLIDAY. THE WIFE: ... So lock the door of worry, And shut your cares away, Not
time of year, but love and cheer, Will make a holiday. THE HUSBAND: ...
/.../questionable amusements and worthy substitutes/x home and the home-maker.htm

Christmas and the Aesthetes
... The strange truth about the matter is told in the very word "holiday." A bank
holiday means presumably a day which bankers regard as holy. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/heretics/vi christmas and the aesthetes.htm

Prayer and vigilance
... of men. The life to which Holy Scripture calls men is no picnic, or holiday
junketing. It is no pastime, no pleasure jaunt. It entails ...
/.../bounds/the necessity of prayer/xi prayer and vigilance.htm

Psalm XLII.
... here on earth; how came you to the sanctuary of the house of God?" he says, "In
the voice of joy and praise; the sound of keeping holiday." Here, when men keep ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm xlii.htm

The victory of Faith.
... him is everything. The holiday promised at a distant interval is no holiday
at all"it must be either now or never. Natural in ...
/.../robertson/sermons preached at brighton/ii the victory of faith.htm

Baptism not to be Presumptously Received it Requires Preceding ...
... repentance; for, feeling sure of undoubted pardon of their sins, men meanwhile steal
the intervening time, and make it for themselves into a holiday-time [8467 ...
/.../tertullian/on repentance/chapter vi baptism not to be.htm

Special Efforts
... The Adjutant turned to account every holy day and holiday. She laid herself
out to make Christmas a joy-day for the lonely and poor. ...
/.../carpenter/the angel adjutant of twice born men/vi special efforts.htm

The Entry into Jerusalem.
... No fewer than three million persons are said to have been sometimes packed together
in Jerusalem at the Passover; and all of them being on holiday, were ready ...
/.../ii the entry into jerusalem.htm

Thesaurus

Holiday (5 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday. 4. (a.)
of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay. ...Holiday (5 Occurrences). ...
/h/holiday.htm - 8k

Holiday-making (1 Occurrence)
Holiday-making. Holiday, Holiday-making. Holier . Multi-Version
Concordance Holiday-making (1 Occurrence). Esther 9:19 ...
/h/holiday-making.htm - 6k

Liberality (7 Occurrences)
... Esther 2:18 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants,
even Esther's feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave ...
/l/liberality.htm - 10k

Grandees (1 Occurrence)
... Mark 6:21 And a holiday being come, when Herod, on his birthday, made a supper to
his grandees, and to the chiliarchs, and the chief men of Galilee; (DBY). ...
/g/grandees.htm - 6k

Festal (12 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous;
festive. Multi-Version Concordance Festal (12 Occurrences). ...
/f/festal.htm - 10k

Feast (209 Occurrences)
... see FESTIVALS.). Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A festival; a holiday;
a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. 2. (n ...
/f/feast.htm - 47k

Release (61 Occurrences)
... Some would render "granted a holiday." (3) To set a prisoner or slave at liberty
(apoluo, "to let go free" (Matthew 27:15 parallel John 19:10), etc.). ...
/r/release.htm - 26k

Eve (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) Evening. 2. (n.) The evening before a holiday, --
from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. ...
/e/eve.htm - 16k

Esther's (4 Occurrences)
... Esther 2:18 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants,
even Esther's feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave ...
/e/esther's.htm - 7k

Dress (38 Occurrences)
... 2) the "mantle," also a species of shawl (Isaiah 3:22); (3) a "veil," probably a
light summer dress (Genesis 24:65); (4) a "stomacher," a holiday dress (Isaiah ...
/d/dress.htm - 53k

Bible Concordance

Holiday (5 Occurrences)

Mark 6:21 And a holiday being come, when Herod, on his birthday, made a supper to his grandees, and to the chiliarchs, and the chief men of Galilee;
(DBY)

Esther 2:18 Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king's bounty.
(WEB NAS NIV)

Esther 8:17 In every province, and in every city, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them.
(See NAS RSV)

Esther 9:19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.
(See NAS RSV)

Esther 9:22 as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.
(See NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Holiday

Holiday: One Year in Seven

Holidays

Related Terms

Holiday-making (1 Occurrence)

Liberality (7 Occurrences)

Grandees (1 Occurrence)

Festal (12 Occurrences)

Feast (209 Occurrences)

Release (61 Occurrences)

Eve (5 Occurrences)