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Discover the meaning of Solemn, Solemnity in the Bible. Study the definition of Solemn, Solemnity with multiple Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias and find scripture references in the Old and New Testaments.
1. ( a.) Marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred. 2. ( a.) Pertaining to a festival; festive; festal. 3. ( a.) Stately; ceremonious; grand. 4. ( a.)
Jan 4, 2022 · In the Bible, a solemn assembly is a gathering of the people of Israel for a sacred feast, festival, or holy occasion. A solemn assembly included a ritual of purification or observing a state of holiness in which all the people of the community were commanded to do no work.
The solemn assembly, or "day of restraint," as it stands in the margin, was a public meeting of the people for the purpose of solemn supplication that the Almighty might be entreated to deliver them from the sore calamity with which he had seen fit to visit them.
Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. Bring the leaders and all the people of the land into the Temple of the LORD your God, and cry out to him there. English Standard Version. Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly.
ASSEMBLY (solemn) is the KJV tr. of the difficult Heb. phrase, מִמּﯴעֵ֛ד, which occurs only in Zephaniah 3:18 and is tr. “festival” by the RSV which follows the LXX and Syr. VSS, and “appointed time” by the JPS.
Solemn, Solemnity. solem, so-lemni-ti: The word solemn had (1) at first the meaning once in the year, through its derivation from Latin sollus, whole, annus, year. As, however, a regular annual occurrence is usually one of particular importance, the word took on (2) the meaning ceremonious.
