英语词汇chanukah的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Chanukah. A Jewish festival of eight days that usually falls in December commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem by the Maccabees after the victory over the Syrian Antiochus IV. The festival is characterized by the lighting of the menorah on each of the festival nights, the giving of small cash gifts (Chanukah gelt) and games such as one played with a four-sided top, or dreidel. Chanukah is the Hebrew word for “a dedicating.” It is also spelled Hanukkah and is called “The Fes- tival of Lights” and “The Feast of Dedication.”

词汇	chanukah
词源	Chanukah. A Jewish festival of eight days that usually falls in December commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem by the Maccabees after the victory over the Syrian Antiochus IV. The festival is characterized by the lighting of the menorah on each of the festival nights, the giving of small cash gifts (Chanukah gelt) and games such as one played with a four-sided top, or dreidel. Chanukah is the Hebrew word for “a dedicating.” It is also spelled Hanukkah and is called “The Fes- tival of Lights” and “The Feast of Dedication.”
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