One in Messiah Congregation

Shabbat shalom  - Oct.16, 2006 - the 7th month ( ha Ethanim ) 22nd day

the eighth day shall be :
Holy
Shabbaton
Convocation 
Solemn
Aassembly

H7677  שׁבּתון   shabbaton -  special holiday: - rest, sabbath.
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H6116  עצרת  /  עצרה  atsarah  /  atsereth - an assembly, especially on a festival or holiday: - (solemn) assembly (meeting).

BDB Definition: assembly, solemn assembly,  assembly (sacred or festive meeting,  assemblage, company, group
H6113 עצר   aw-tsar
BDB Definition: to restrain, retain, close up, shut, withhold, refrain, stay, detain
1) (Qal)
2) to restrain, halt, stop
3) to retain
1) (Niphal) to be restrained, be stayed, be under restraint
A primitive root; to inclose; by analogy to hold back; also to maintain, rule, assemble: -  be able, close up, detain, fast, keep ( self close, still ), prevail, recover, refrain,  reign, restrain, retain, shut (up), slack, stay, stop, withhold (self).
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H4150 מועדה  מעד  מועד  moed    mo adah
mo-ade, mo-ade', mo-aw-daw
From H3259; properly an appointment, that is, a fixed time or season; specifically a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand): - appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn (-ity), synagogue, (set) time (appointed)

BDB Definition:  appointed place, appointed time, meeting,  sacred season, set feast, appointed season, appointed meeting,  appointed sign or signal,  tent of meeting
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מקרא  miqra - From H7121; something called out, that is, a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the palce); also a rehearsal: - assembly, calling, convocation, reading.
BDB Definition:  convocation, convoking, reading, a calling together,  sacred assembly, convoking, reading
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H6944 קדשׁ  kodesh
BDB Definition:  apartness, holiness, sacredness, separateness, set-apartness, separateness
1) of God
2) of places
3) of things
 
From H6942; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstractly sanctity: - consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, ( most) holy ( day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary.

H6942   קדשׁ kadash
BDB Definition: to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be set apart, be consecrated
1a2) to be hallowed
1a3) consecrated
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to show oneself sacred 
1b2) to be honoured, be treated as sacred
1b3) to be holy
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to set apart as sacred, consecrate, dedicate
1c2) to observe as holy, keep sacred
1c3) to honour as sacred, hallow
1c4) to consecrate
1d) (Pual)
1d1) to be consecrated
1d2) consecrated, dedicated
1e) (Hiphil)
1e1) to set apart, devote, consecrate
1e2) to regard or treat as sacred or hallow
1e3) to consecrate
1f) (Hithpael)
1f1) to keep oneself apart or separate
1f2) to cause Himself to be hallowed (of God)
1f3) to be observed as holy
1f4) to consecrate oneself
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Lev.23[34] Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
[35] On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
[36] Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
[37] These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
[38] Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
[39] Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
[40] And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
[41] And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.[42] Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
[43] That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
[44] And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
 keep - feast - statute - celebrate  
H2287 חגג  chagag - A primitive root - to move in a circle, that is, to march in a sacred procession, to observe a festival;  celebrate, dance, (keep, hold) a (solemn) feast (holiday), dance

BDB Definition: to hold a feast, hold a festival, make pilgrimage, keep a pilgrim-feast, celebrate, dance
H2708  חקּה chuqqah - meaning substantially the same: - appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute.
H2282  חג chag  - A festival,  (solemn) feast (day), sacrifice, solemnity
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Num.29[12] And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:

[17] And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
[20] And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish;
[23] And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
[26] And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
[29] And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
[32] And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:
[35] On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:

The great day 
Zeph.1[14] The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
John.7[37] In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Jude.1[6] And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Rev.6[17] For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
Rev.16[14] For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
solemn
Num.10[10] Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
Num.15[3] And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock:
Num.29[35] On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
Deut.16[8] Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein. 
[15] Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
Deut.31[10] And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
1Sam.8[9] Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
2Kgs.10[20] And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
2Chr.2[4] Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
2Chr.7[9] And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
2Chr.8[13] Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
Neh.8[18] Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.
Pss.81[3] Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Pss.92[3] Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
Isa.1[13] Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Isa.30[29] Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
Isa.33[20] Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
Lam.1[4] The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Lam.2[6] And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. [7] The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. 
[22] Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Ezek.36[38] As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezek.45[17] And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
Ezek.46[9] But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it. 
[11] And in the feast and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
Hos.2[11] I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
Hos.9[5] What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?
Hos.12[9] And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
Joel.1[14] Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
Joel.2[15] Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
Amos.5[21] I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Nah.1[15] Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.
Shalom