שָׁבוּעַ shavua

Hebrew word for “week” · Strong’s H7620 · used 20 times in 17 verses

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Meaning

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)

Senses in the lexicon

• week (8)
• week (7)
• Weeks (5)

How it is translated

Glosses given for shavua in context, with how often each is used:

• weeks 9
• sevens 6
• seven 2
• week 2
• two weeks 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Daniel 9 (4), Deuteronomy 16 (3), Genesis 29 (2), Daniel 10 (2), Exodus 34 (1), Leviticus 12 (1), Numbers 28 (1), 2 Chronicles 8 (1), Jeremiah 5 (1), Ezekiel 45 (1)

Forms

• שׁבעים 5
• שׁבעות 4
• שׁבע 2
• שׁבעת 2
• השׁבעות 2
• ושׁבעים 1
• השׁבעים 1
• שׁבוע 1
• השׁבוע 1
• בשׁבעתיכם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shavua more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• חַג chag “feast” 5
• מַצָּה matstsah “unleavened bread” 3
• שִׁשִּׁים shishshim “sixty” 3
• שָׁלֹשׁ shalosh “three” 4
• חָרַץ charats “to decide” 2
• בִּכּוּרִים bikkur “firstfruit” 2
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 4
• מָלֵא male “to fill” 3
• סֻכָּה sukkah “booth” 2
• מָשִׁיחַ mashiach “anointed” 2
• שֶׁבַע sheva “seven” 3
• נָגִיד nagid “leader” 2

Key verses

The verses using shavua that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 34:22 — And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
• Numbers 28:26 — Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no…
• Deuteronomy 16:9 — Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
• Deuteronomy 16:10 — And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God,…
• Deuteronomy 16:16 — Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast…
• Jeremiah 5:24 — Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the…
• Daniel 9:24 — 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…
• Daniel 9:25 — Know 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,…
• Daniel 9:26 — And 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…
• Daniel 9:27 — And 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…
• Daniel 10:2 — In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.
• Daniel 10:3 — I 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.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.