Shabuoth
or Sha·bu·ot
[ Sephardic Hebrew shah-voo-awt; Ashkenazic Hebrew shuh-voo-ohs, -uh s ]
/ Sephardic Hebrew ʃɑ vuˈɔt; Ashkenazic Hebrew ʃəˈvu oʊs, -əs /
noun
Judaism.
Shavuoth.
Definition for shabuoth (2 of 2)
Shavuoth
or Sha·vu·ot, Sha·vu·os, Sha·bu·oth, Sha·bu·ot
[ Sephardic Hebrew shah-voo-awt; Ashkenazic Hebrew shuh-voo-ohs, -uh s ]
/ Sephardic Hebrew ʃɑ vuˈɔt; Ashkenazic Hebrew ʃəˈvu oʊs, -əs /
noun Judaism.
a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
Also called
Feast of Weeks,
Pentecost.
Origin of Shavuoth
First recorded in 1890–95,
Shavuoth is from the Hebrew word
Shābhūʿōth literally, weeks