Global Information Lookup Global Information

First Fruits information


Fruit Basket (painting by Balthasar van der Ast).

First Fruits is a religious offering of the first agricultural produce of the harvest. In classical Greek, Roman, and Hebrew religions, the first fruits were given to priests as an offering to deity.

Beginning in 1966 a unique "First Fruits" celebration brought the Ancient African harvest festivals that became the African American holiday, Kwanzaa.

and 23 Related for: First Fruits information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8731 seconds.)

First Fruits

Last Update:

First Fruits is a religious offering of the first agricultural produce of the harvest. In classical Greek, Roman, and Hebrew religions, the first fruits...

Word Count : 2079

Fruits Basket

Last Update:

Fruits Basket (Japanese: フルーツバスケット, Hepburn: Furūtsu Basuketto), sometimes abbreviated Furuba or Fruba (フルバ), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated...

Word Count : 7807

Board of First Fruits

Last Update:

The Board of First Fruits (Irish: Bord na Prímhide) was an institution of the Church of Ireland that was established in 1711 by Anne, Queen of Great Britain...

Word Count : 990

The Boo Radleys

Last Update:

formerly of Happy Mondays.[citation needed] After an album in 1996 (First Fruits) under the name Eggman, while still a member of the Boo Radleys, Rowbottom...

Word Count : 1779

Plum

Last Update:

especially during the 21st century. Plums may have been one of the first fruits domesticated by humans, with origins in East European and Caucasian mountains...

Word Count : 2367

Dried fruit

Last Update:

"conventional" or "traditional" dried fruits: fruits that have been dried in the sun or in heated wind tunnel dryers. Many fruits, such as cranberries, blueberries...

Word Count : 3138

Shavuot

Last Update:

(Hebrew: חג הקציר, romanized: Ḥāġ HaqQāṣir Exodus 23:16), and "Day of the First Fruits" (Hebrew: יום הבכורים, romanized: Yom habBikkurim, Numbers 28:26). Shavuot...

Word Count : 5396

Court of First Fruits and Tenths

Last Update:

First Fruits and Tenths was a form of tax on clergy taking up a benefice or ecclesiastical position in Great Britain. The Court of First Fruits and Tenths...

Word Count : 472

Annates

Last Update:

a proffered contribution to the church. They were also known as the "first fruits" (primitiae), a religious offering which dates back to earlier Greek...

Word Count : 1583

Lammas

Last Update:

is a festival in the liturgical calendar to mark the blessing of the First Fruits of harvest, with a loaf of bread being brought to the church for this...

Word Count : 2279

John Florio

Last Update:

information was from Florio's grandson, Mr. Molins". Furthermore, in First Fruits, John Florio asserted that when he arrived in London (at 19 years old)...

Word Count : 7964

Fruit

Last Update:

(see Fruit anatomy). Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particular have...

Word Count : 5570

William Muir

Last Update:

the translated sources. A proselytising text, Bakoorah shahiya (Sweet First Fruits) was published under his name as well, but this work had actually been...

Word Count : 2931

Feast of Wine

Last Update:

third day of the fifth month (Av), fifty days after the festival of the first fruits of grain. On this day, the peoples offer new wine to God "a third from...

Word Count : 657

Kwanzaa

Last Update:

derives from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning "first fruits". First fruits festivals exist in Southern Africa and are celebrated in December/January...

Word Count : 2959

List of citrus fruits

Last Update:

This is a list of citrus fruits: Japanese citrus Lime Australian lime Lumia Orange Papeda Sweet lemon Food portal List of lemon dishes and drinks "The...

Word Count : 31

Omer offering

Last Update:

to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. 11 He shall wave the sheaf before the...

Word Count : 709

Lughnasadh

Last Update:

evidence suggests that the religious rites included an offering of the First Fruits, a feast of the new food, the sacrifice of a bull, and a ritual dance-play...

Word Count : 3943

Seven Species

Last Update:

הַמִינִים, Shiv'at HaMinim) are seven agricultural products—two grains and five fruits—that are listed in the Hebrew Bible as being special products of the Land...

Word Count : 995

Three Pilgrimage Festivals

Last Update:

appear before Me empty-handed; and the Feast of the Harvest, of the first fruits of your work, of what you sow in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering...

Word Count : 837

Pentecost

Last Update:

Harvest in Exodus 23:16 and the Day of First Fruits in Numbers 28:26. In Exodus 34:22, it is called the "first fruits of the wheat harvest." Sometime during...

Word Count : 8057

Nisan

Last Update:

and first month of spring. The name of the month is an Akkadian language borrowing, although it ultimately originates in Sumerian nisag "first fruits"....

Word Count : 2881

Parable of the barren fig tree

Last Update:

vineyard once a year. The law regarding first fruits, Leviticus 19:23–25, forbids eating fruit from a tree in its first three years. The vinedresser has disposed...

Word Count : 1231

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net