# shavuot (שָׁבוּעוֹת)

pronounced: sha-voo-OT


**Weeks — the Feast of Weeks, celebrated fifty days after Passover and called Pentecost in Greek**

## In Scripture

> You shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God blesses you.
> — Deuteronomy 16:10 (The Torah names Shavuot by its counted weeks)

> “You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year’s end.
> — Exodus 34:22 (Exact occurrence — the Torah names Shavuot as the Feast of Weeks and joins it to the first fruits of the wheat harvest.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/shavuot/