chag denotes an appointed communal celebration, marked by gathering, offerings, rejoicing, or set days of observance.

The term consistently denotes a designated celebration or festival observance. The cited clauses associate it with named annual occasions, set periods of seven days, communal gathering and joy, and prescribed offerings; even passages of rejection or mourning refer to such observances rather than a different kind of event.

1. Appointed communal festival observance · dominant

   In Deuteronomy 16:16, the construct form identifies three occasions at which males are to appear before the LORD; the APB renders the clause with the festivals of unleavened bread, weeks, and booths. In Leviticus 23:39 and Nehemiah 8:18, the term occurs with a seven-day observance, while Ezekiel 45:23 places daily burnt offerings during those seven days. Plural forms in Amos 5:21 and Amos 8:10 refer to the people's observances when they are rejected or turned into mourning, without changing the basic referent.

   Deuteronomy 16:16Leviticus 23:39Nehemiah 8:18Ezekiel 45:23Amos 5:21Amos 8:10

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as “feast,” including named observances such as the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Booths. It also uses “feasts” for plural settings of offerings or rebuke; These renderings confirm the clauses' setting rather than establish a separate lexical distinction.