Week
שָׁבוּעַStrong’s H7620shavua (sha-vu-a)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shavua is the Hebrew word usually translated “weeks”, “sevens” and “week of”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.”
Meaning
- Feast of Weeks
- Seven, period of seven (days or years), heptad, weekperiod of seven days, a week · heptad, seven (of years)
How it's translated
- weeks 5
- sevens 4
- week of 2
- the weeks 2
- two weeks 1
- at weeks your 1
- weeks of 1
- and sevens 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 6
- Deuteronomy 3
- Genesis 2
- Exodus 1
- Leviticus 1
- Numbers 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 9:25In contextKnow therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
- Daniel 9:26In contextAnd after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
- Daniel 9:27In contextAnd he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
- Daniel 10:2In contextIn those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
- Daniel 10:3In contextI ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
- Genesis 29:27Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁבוּעַ shavua · Weeks
Feast of Weeks, Also named: pentēkostē (πεντηκοστή "Pentecost" G4005) This name means seven,
שָׁבוּעַ shavua · week
1) seven, period of seven (days or years), heptad, week 1a) period of seven days, a week 1a1) Feast of Weeks 1b) heptad, seven (of years) Also means: sha.vu.a (שָׁבוּעַ "week" H7620I)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “week” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WEEK, noun
[G.]
- The space of seven days.“I fast twice in the week” Luke 18:12
- In Scripture, a prophetic week is a week of years, or seven years. Daniel 9:27
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.