H7620 — שָׁבוּעַ (shâbûwaʻ)¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: H7620
Original: שָׁבוּעַ
Transliteration: shâbûwaʻ
Pronunciation: shaw-boo'-ah
Part of Speech: Masculine noun
Root: Denominative from H7651 שֶׁבַע (sheba, seven) via H7650 שָׁבַע (shaba); literally "sevened" — a passive participle
Occurrences: 17 unique verses (24 tokens) across 9 books
First Occurrence: Gen 29:27 — "Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also"
Hapax Legomenon: No

Lexicon Definition¶

shâbûwaʻ; or שָׁבֻעַ shâbua'; also (feminine) שְׁבֻעָה shᵉbû'âh; properly, passive participle of H7650 as a denominative of H7651; literally, sevened, i.e. a week (specifically, of years): — seven, week.

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Translation	Verses	%
weeks / of weeks	11	64.7%
week / of the week	4	23.5%
seven (weeks)	1	5.9%
Other fragments	1	5.9%

Note: "of weeks," "of the week" etc. are phrase-level taggings; the semantic content throughout is week(s).

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
Daniel	6	1.7
Deuteronomy	3	0.3
Genesis	2	0.1
Exodus	1	0.1
Leviticus	1	0.1
Numbers	1	0.1
Jeremiah	1	0.1
Ezekiel	1	0.1
2 Chronicles	1	0.1

Daniel has by far the highest density (1.7 per 100 vs. 0.1–0.3 elsewhere), driven entirely by the 70-weeks prophecy and Daniel's personal mourning period. Outside Daniel, the word appears almost exclusively in the Feast of Weeks / agricultural calendar context.

Semantic Categories¶

1. Literal 7-Day Period (domestic/personal)¶

Gen 29:27 — "Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years" (Jacob's bridal week for Leah)
Gen 29:28 — "And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also"
Lev 12:5 — "But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation"
Dan 10:2–3 — "I Daniel was mourning three full weeks... till three whole weeks were fulfilled"

2. Feast of Weeks (Shavuot / Pentecost)¶

Exo 34:22 — "And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest"
Deut 16:9–10 — "Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee... And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering"
Num 28:26 — "when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks [be out]"
2Chr 8:13 — listed alongside Sabbaths, new moons, and solemn feasts as one of three annual appointed times
Deut 16:16 — one of the three pilgrimage feasts (Unleavened Bread, Weeks, Tabernacles)

3. Harvest Calendar / Appointed Seasons¶

Jer 5:24 — "he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest" — shabuwa used for the seasonal rhythm of harvest timing
Eze 45:21 — appears in a festival calendar alongside Passover and the seven-day feast

4. Prophetic Weeks (Daniel 9)¶

Dan 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 iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness"
Dan 9:25 — "from the going forth of the commandment... unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks"
Dan 9:26 — "after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself"
Dan 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"

Common Collocations¶

Word	Strong's	Co-occurrences	Typical Pattern
יוֹם (yôwm)	H3117	6x	Days within weeks: "three full weeks of days" (Dan 10:2-3); feast duration
חַג (chag)	H2282	5x	"Feast of weeks" — the Pentecost/Shavuot formula
עָשָׂה (ʻâsâh)	H6213	4x	Keeping/observing the feast of weeks
שָׁנֶה (shâneh)	H8141	4x	Weeks of years in Dan 9; annual calendar cycle
שִׁשִּׁים (shishshîym)	H8346	3x	"Threescore and two weeks" — Dan 9:25-26 counting formula
שֶׁבַע (shebaʻ)	H7651	3x	"Seven weeks" — counting period for Pentecost and Dan 9:25
קֹדֶשׁ (qôdesh)	H6944	3x	Feast of weeks as holy assembly; Daniel's holy-city context
מַצָּה (matstsâh)	H4682	3x	Paired in festival calendar: Unleavened Bread + Weeks + Tabernacles
מָלֵא (mâlêʼ)	H4390	3x	"Fulfil / complete her week(s)" — Genesis bridal week; Daniel mourning period
בִּכּוּר (bikkûwr)	H1061	2x	Feast of Weeks as firstfruits harvest festival (Exo 34:22)

Word Family / Cognates¶

H7651 שֶׁבַע (sheba) — seven; the root number; shabuwa is literally "the sevened [period]"
H7650 שָׁבַע (shaba) — to swear an oath; also denominative from H7651 (to "seven oneself" in oath-taking); shares root but diverged in meaning

Synonyms¶

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Antonyms¶

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Easily Confused Words¶

Word	Strong's	Shared Translation	Key Difference
σάββατον (sábbaton)	G4521	Both rendered "week" in some contexts	G4521 is the Sabbath day (7th day); used idiomatically in NT for "week" (e.g., "first day of the sabbaton" = Sunday). Shabuwa always denotes the full 7-day period, never the single day

Semantic Domains¶

UBS / Relationship Domains¶

[002002002010] Time — the base temporal field: shâbûwaʻ names a counted week or heptad.
[002002002011] Festivals — the same word also belongs to the festival-calendar field, especially in Feast of Weeks usage.

LXX Mapping¶

The LXX rendering of shabuwa is scattered across multiple Greek words because the word appears in distinct contexts (festival calendar vs. prophetic vision vs. domestic narrative). Daniel's 70-weeks prophecy primarily survives in Theodotion's Greek translation rather than the LXX, which affects co-occurrence data.

Greek Equivalent	Co-occ	PMI	Notes
ἑορτή (heortē) G1859	5	6.33	"feast [of weeks]" — heortē translates the compound phrase, not shabuwa alone
ἑπτά (heptá) G2033	5	4.73	"seven [weeks]" — the numeral component
ἡμέρα (hēméra) G2250	6	2.23	"days [within weeks]" — context of counting
ἄζυμος (ázymos) G106	3	6.57	Unleavened bread / feast calendar co-context
ἑξήκοντα (hexēkonta) G1835	3	6.11	"sixty [weeks]" — Dan 9:25

ἑβδομάς (hebdomas, G1441 — "heptad/week") is the most direct Greek translation of shabuwa but does not appear in this corpus's co-occurrence data, likely due to Theodotion's use in Daniel.