1. feast, festival — A religious festival or feast day, referring primarily to Jewish pilgrimage festivals (especially Passover/Unleavened Bread and Tabernacles) in the Gospels (John 2:23, 4:45, 5:1, 6:4, 7:2, 7:8, 7:10, 7:11, 7:14, 7:37, 11:56, 12:12, 12:20, 13:1, 13:29; Matt 26:5, 27:15; Mark 14:2, 15:6; Luke 2:41-42, 22:1, 23:17) and the Pauline warning against judging on the basis of festivals (Col 2:16). All 27 occurrences refer to the same concept of a sacred communal celebration, differing only in grammatical case (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive). Multilingual evidence confirms uniformity: Spanish 'fiesta/de fiesta,' Hindi 'पर्व/त्योहार,' Arabic 'عِيدِ/عيدٍ,' Korean '명절에/절기의,' Swahili 'sikukuu/ya sikukuu.' 27×
AR["الْعِيدِ","عيدٍ","عيدُ","عِيدٌ","عِيدٍ","عِيدُ","عِيدِ"]·ben["উৎসব","উৎসবে","উৎসবের","পর্ব","পর্বে","পর্বের"]·DE["Fest"]·EN["feast","the-feast"]·FR["fête"]·heb["הֶחָג","חַג","חָג"]·HI["पर्व","पर्व,","पर्व;","पर्व।"]·ID["hari-raya","itu","perayaan","perayaan,","perayaan.","perayaan;"]·IT["festa"]·jav["pèstah","riaya","riaya,","riaya.","riyadi","riyadi,","riyadi.","riyadi;","riyaya","riyaya,"]·KO["명절에","명절이","절기","절기-에","절기-의","절기가","절기에","절기에서","절기의"]·PT["festa","festa,","festa.","festa;"]·RU["праздник","праздника","празднике","празднику"]·ES["fiesta"]·SW["karamu","sikukuu","wa-sikukuu"]·TR["bayram","bayrama","bayramda","bayramı","bayramın","bayramına","bir-bayram"]·urd["تہوار،","عید","عید-میں","عید-پر","عید-کے"]
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ἑορτ-ή, in Ionic dialect Prose ὁρτή (so Refs 5th c.BC+, probably in Ion Trag.21, but ἑορτή Refs 6th c.BC+, ἡ, feast, festival, holiday, ἐπεὶ καὶ πᾶσιν ἑ. Refs 8th c.BC+; ὁρτὴν ἄγειν keep a feast,Refs 5th c.BC+ __2 generally, holiday-making, amusement, pastime, παιδιᾶς καὶ ἑορτῆς χάριν Refs 5th c.BC+ __3 proverbial, κατόπιν ἑορτῆς ἥκειν to have come the day after the fair, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀεργοῖς…