מועד

Hebrew

Etymology

Root
י־ע־ד (y-ʿ-d)

Compare Arabic مَوْعِد (mawʕid, “appointment, appointed time”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

מוֹעֵד • (mo'éd) m (plural indefinite מוֹעֲדִים, singular construct מוֹעֵד־, plural construct מוֹעֲדֵי־)

1. appointed or agreed-upon time
   1. appointment
   2. fixed time or season
   3. festival, solemn feast
2. year
3. meeting; assembly convened for a definite purpose; congregation
   • 1878, William Robertson Smith, "Ark of the Covenant" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. II, p. 539:

     But the notion of communication between the spiritual God and His people still took the form of a tryst or meeting (מוֹעֵד E.V. wrongly, congregation, Exod. xxvii. 21, &c.), under conditions of time and place divinely appointed (Exod. xx. 23, 24), and the idea of purely spiritual approach to God without any local and symbolical point of rapport between heaven and earth was reserved for the New Testament.

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4. the place of meeting; a place of solemn assembly
5. agreed-upon signal
6. solemnity
7. synagogue

Derived terms

• בְּעוֹד מוֹעֵד (b'ód mo'éd)
• חול המועד / חֹל הַמּוֹעֵד (khol hamo'éd)

Descendants

• → Judeo-Italian: mongedde
• → Judeo-Tat: miⱨid
• → Ladino: moed, mued

References

• H4150 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Anagrams

• מדוע