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Shavuos

Shavuos is the alternative form of Shavuot.

Meaning of Shavuot

Proper noun

Shavuot

  1. (Judaism) A Jewish harvest festival which falls on the sixth day of Sivan in the spring, fifty days after the second day of the Passover when the omer (“sheaf of barley”) is offered.
    • Major Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Simchat Torah, Succoth, Chanukah, Passover and Shavuot have been celebrated with Hebrew prayers and songs.1971, United States Congress: Senate: Foreign Relations, Public Financing of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
  2. (Judaism) A ceremony held on that day to commemorate the giving of the Torah (“first five books of the Hebrew scriptures”) to Moses and the Israelites on Mount Sinai.

Questions about Shavuos

What is Shavuos the alternative form of?
Shavuos is the alternative form of Shavuot.

Words near Shavuos in the dictionary

  1. Shavitt
  2. Shaviyani
  3. Shavon
  4. Shavonne
  5. shavua tov
  6. Shavuos
  7. Shavuot
  8. Shavuoth
  9. shaw
  10. Shaw alphabet
  11. Shaw and Crompton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Shavuos (page history and authors); Shavuot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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