שָׁבוּעַshâbûwaʻ

Meanings

Same root

• שָׁבַעshâbaʻ · H7650to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
• שֶׁבַעshebaʻ · H7651seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number

Where it appears

Appears 20 times in the Bible.

• Genesis 29:27 “But wait until the bridal week is over; then we’ll give you Rachel, too—provided you promise to work another seven years for me.”
• Genesis 29:28 So Jacob agreed to work seven more years. A week after Jacob had married Leah, Laban gave him Rachel, too.
• Exodus 34:22 “You must celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the first crop of the wheat harvest, and celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the harvest season.
• Leviticus 12:5 If a woman gives birth to a daughter, she will be ceremonially unclean for two weeks, just as she is unclean during her menstrual period. After waiting sixty-six days, she will be purified from the bleeding of childbirth.
• Numbers 28:26 “At the Festival of Harvest, when you present the first of your new grain to the Lord, you must call an official day for holy assembly, and you may do no ordinary work on that day.
• Deuteronomy 16:9 “Count off seven weeks from when you first begin to cut the grain at the time of harvest.