BIRTHDAY

BIRTHDAY. → Celebrated by feasts Ge 40:20; Mt 14:6 → Cursed Job 3; Jer 20:14,18

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The custom of observing birthdays is very ancient, (Genesis 40:20; Jeremiah 20:15) and in (Job 1:4) etc., we read that Job’s sons "feasted every one his day." In Persia birthdays were celebrated with peculiar honors and banquets, and in Egypt those of the king were kept with great pomp. It is very probable that in (Matthew 14:6) the feast to commemorate Herod’s accession is intended, for we know that such feasts were common, and were called "the day of the king." (Hosea 7:5)

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birthday. Birthday, n. the day on which any one is born

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Birth″day′ (bẽrth″dā′), n. 1. 1. The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next The birthday of invention. Cowper. 2. 2. The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.
This is my birthday; as this very day Was Cassius born. Shak.