Compiler: Ina Crowther - Last updated 2011There are three different Hebrew words used in connection with YHVH’s festivals: Moed, Chag, and Miqra. The English translations translated it only as Feast, festival and convocation or meeting.
"MOED", which means appointment or an appointed time, Set (or fixed) time, cycle or year, an assembly.
"CHAG", which means feast, is derived from the Hebrew root word chagag, which means to move in a circle, to march in a set apart procession, dance, celebration , and rejoicing.
"MIQRA", which means “Convocation”, “something called out”, “a meeting” or also a “rehearsal”.
Shavuot/Feast of weeks
It always falls on the 3rdScriptural month (month of Sivan) 50 days after the Shabbat after Pesach – a remembrance of the giving of the Torah (Shemot/Ex 19:20-20:18) and the outpouring of the Set Apart Spirit. (Acts 2:1–13)
Shemot/Exodus 34:22-24, Vayiqra/Leviticus 23:15–21, Bemidbar/Numbers 28:26-31, Debarim/Deutr 14:22–16:,10,17, Debarim/Deutr 16:9-12, Habakkuk 3:1–19.
To be a set apart day – no servile work; making of food is allowed; to have a set-apart meeting; Vayiqra/Lev23:21
To be a joyfull feast ( Debarim/Deutr 16:10-12 “And you shall perform the Festival of Weeks to יהוה your Elohim, according to the voluntary offering from your hand, which you give as יהוה your Elohim blesses you.
“And you shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim, you and your son and your daughter, and your male