Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7620
שָׁבוּעַ
shabuashaw-boo'-ah
Weeks
20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shâbûwaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7620is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7620
literally, sevened, i.e. a week (specifically, of years)
The King James renders it: seven, week.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shabua is rendered "Weeks". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 29:27Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
Genesis 29:27שְׁבֻ֣עַ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's twenty uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- weeks5
- sevens4
- the weeks2
- week of2
- and sevens1
- at weeks your1
- seven1
- the seven1
- the sevens1
- two weeks1
- weeks of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁבַע | shaba | to swear | Uses186 |
| שָׁבַר | shabar | to break | Uses147 |
| שָׁבַת | shabath | to cease | Uses71 |
| שָׁבָה | shabah | to take captive | Uses47 |
| שָׁבַר | shabar | to buy grain | Uses21 |
| שָׁבַח | shabach | to soothe | Uses11 |
| שָׁבַץ | shabats | to weave | Uses2 |
| שָׁבִיל | shabil | path | Uses2 |
| שָׁבָב | shabab | fragment | Uses1 |
| שָׁבָץ | shabats | agony | Uses1 |
| שָׁבִיב | shabib | flame | Uses1 |
| שָׁבִיס | shabis | headband | Uses1 |
All 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- שָׁבֻעִ֖ים3
- הַשָּׁבֻע֖וֹת2
- שְׁבֻ֣עַ2
- בְּשָׁבֻעֹ֖תֵיכֶ֑ם1
- הַשָּׁב֜וּעַ1
- הַשָּׁבֻעִים֙1
- וְשָׁבֻעִ֞ים1
- שָׁב֣וּעַ1
- שְׁבֻע֛וֹת1
- שְׁבֻע֣וֹת1
- שָׁבֻעוֹת֙1
- שָׁבֻעֽוֹת׃1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural4HNcmpa
- noun · feminine plural2HNcfpa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfpc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- noun · feminine plural2HNtfpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural2HTd/Ntfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine dual1HNcmda
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HR/Ntfpc/Sp2mp
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
two uses
Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
- שְׁבֻ֣עַshevua'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: week of
And Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
- שְׁבֻ֣עַshevua'noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: week of
Exodus
one use
And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
- שָׁבֻעֹת֙shavuotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: weeks
Leviticus
one use
If, however, she gives birth to a daughter, the woman will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstruation. Then she must continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.
- שְׁבֻעַ֖יִםshevuayimnoun · masculine dualtagged: two weeks
Numbers
one use
On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
- בְּשָׁבֻעֹ֖תֵיכֶ֑םbeshavuoteikhempreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: at weeks your
Deuteronomy
four uses
You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
- שָׁבֻעֹ֖תshavuotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: weeks
- שָׁבֻעֽוֹת׃shavuotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: weeks
And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,
- שָׁבֻעוֹת֙shavuotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: weeks
Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
- הַשָּׁבֻע֖וֹתhashavuotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the weeks
2 Chronicles
one use
He observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
- הַשָּׁבֻע֖וֹתhashavuotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the weeks
Jeremiah
one use
They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
- שְׁבֻע֛וֹתshevuotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: weeks of
Ezekiel
one use
On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- שְׁבֻע֣וֹתshevuotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: weeks
Daniel
eight uses
Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- שָׁבֻעִ֨יםshavuimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sevens
Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.
- שָׁבֻעִ֖יםshavuimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sevens
- וְשָׁבֻעִ֞יםveshavuimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and sevens
Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
- הַשָּׁבֻעִים֙hashavuimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the sevens
And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”
- שָׁב֣וּעַshavua'noun · masculine singulartagged: seven
- הַשָּׁב֜וּעַhashavua'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the seven
In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.
- שָׁבֻעִ֖יםshavuimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sevens
I ate no rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I did not anoint myself with oil until the three weeks were completed.
- שָׁבֻעִ֖יםshavuimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sevens
Where it leads
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How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.