shavua · week

What it means

shavua (שָׁבוּעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “week”.

A period of seven days, or of seven years. At a wedding, the seven days of the feast.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A 7-day period; the feast fifty days after Passover.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• weeks ×15
• week ×4
• seven ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×4
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×8

• Genesis 29:27

  Complete the week of this one, and we will give you that one too, for the service that you will serve with me yet another seven years.”

• Genesis 29:28

  Jacob did so, and completed the week of this one; and he gave him Rachel his daughter as his wife.

• Exodus 34:22

  And the Feast of Weeks you shall observe for yourself, the first fruits of the harvest of wheat, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

• Leviticus 12:5

  But if she gives birth to a female, she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation; and she shall remain sixty days and six days in the blood of purification.

• Numbers 28:26

  And on the day of the first fruits, when you present a new grain offering to YHWH at your feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.

• Deuteronomy 16:9

  Seven weeks you shall count for yourself; from when the sickle is first put to the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks.

• Deuteronomy 16:10

  And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to YHWH your Elohim, with the measure of the freewill offering of your hand that you give, as YHWH your Elohim blesses you.

• Deuteronomy 16:16

  Three times in the year all your males shall appear before YHWH your Elohim in the place that he chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. And none shall appear before YHWH empty-handed;

• 2 Chronicles 8:13

  according to what was due each day, offering up according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, at the new moons, and at the appointed times, three times a year: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths.

• Jeremiah 5:24

  And they have not said in their heart, “Let us fear now YHWH our Elohim, who gives rain, the early and the late, in its season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.”

• Ezekiel 45:21

  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

• Daniel 9:24

  Seventy weeks are decreed concerning your people and concerning your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to put an end to sin, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in eternal righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

• Daniel 9:25

  So know and understand: from the going out of a word to restore and to build Jerusalem until an Anointed One, a Leader, there will be seven weeks; and for sixty and two weeks it will again be built, with plaza and moat, but in the distress of the times.

• Daniel 9:26

  And after the sixty and two weeks an Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing; and the people of a leader who is to come will destroy the city and the holy place; and its end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed.

• Daniel 9:27

  And he will make strong a covenant with the many for one week; and in the middle of the week he will make sacrifice and offering cease; and on the wing of detestable things will come one who makes desolate, even until the complete destruction that is decreed is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”

• Daniel 10:2

  In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks.

• Daniel 10:3

  Delicate food I did not eat, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and I did not anoint myself at all, until three full weeks were completed.

And 3 more times.