STRONG'S 7620 (week or shabuwa)
IN SCRIPTURE

The Hebrew for 'week' and 'weeks' is translated from Strong's Concordance
reference 7620.

Strong's lists 19 occurrences and if the 'seven' (actually 'sevens') of
Ezekiel 45:21 is included we have 20 occurrences.

If these occurrences are classified according to the last letter (consonant)
of each Hebrew word we notice three groupings. (Hebrew is read from 'right
to left', so the last letter of the word is the first shown.)

SINGULAR
	Gen 29:27 - Fulfil her week		Gen 29:28 - fulfilled her week
	Dan 9:27 - for one week		Dan 9:27 - middle of the week
PLURAL-1
	Exod 34:22 - Feast of Weeks		Num 28:26 - after your weeks
	Deut 16:9 - count seven weeks		Deut 16:9 - seven weeks from
	Deut 16:10 - Feast of Weeks		Deut 16:16 - Feast of Weeks
	2Chr 8:13 - Feast of Weeks		Jer 5:24 - appointed weeks of
	Ezek 45:21 - of seven{sevens}
PLURAL-2
	Lev 12:5 - unclean two weeks		Dan 9:24 - Seventy weeks
	Dan 9:25 - seven weeks		Dan 9:25 - sixty-two weeks
	Dan 9:26 - sixty-two weeks		Dan 10:2 - three full weeks
	Dan 10:3 - three whole weeks

   ( Scanned from 'The Interlinear NIV Hebrew-English Old Testament'
     written by 'John R Kohlenberger III'. )


'Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible' shows the following for its
7620 reference.




This Strong's reference shows two forms of the singular (shabuwa & shabua)
and the common first plural form (shebuah), but fails to show the second
plural form (shabuim). 

The meaning of the first plural is quite straight forward. It is simply a
plural form of the singular. Gender is feminine.

   - It is often used in the title of the 3rd month festival,
     the 'Feast of Weeks'.

   - Other verses, except for Ezekiel 45:21, relate to the
     seven weeks of harvest leading up to the Feast of Weeks.

   - Ezekiel 45:21 is often incorrectly translated as just
     'seven'. It seems this change was made because it was
     considered that the plural form was an error.
     However, in this verse it seems the plural form is being
     used to refer to the two overlapping 7 day periods;
        a) 14th-20th - nights of thanksgiving , and
        b) 15th-21st - days of unleavened bread.

   - This Hebrew form is most often categorised as Strong's
     Concordance number H7651. So there may be some cases
     where this word has been categorised as H7651, but
     actually should have also been categorised as H7620.

The meaning of the second plural form is disputed. Gender is masculine. 
With this form, the notion of 'heptad' is encountered.


The internet site www.thefreedictionary.com site provides the following
definition of the term.




This definition is quite confusing. It shows two different meanings;

        a) 'a group or series of seven'

        b) 'the number seven'


Many commentators who mention the term 'heptad' simply suggest it means
'seven', but this is not correct.

Rather, the term 'heptad' is suggesting 'a group or series of seven'.

More accurately;

'a number defined by the number seven, incorporating a group or
 series of seven'. 

(Paraphrased from pages 717-718 of "Commentary on the Old Testament",
 by Keil & Delitzsch.)


Scripture presents only two examples of such arrangements;

        a) the period of seven weeks leading up to the
           Feast of Weeks (also called Pentecost).

        b) the period of seven 'seven year' periods
           leading up to the fiftieth year of Jubilee.



Discussions, presenting such illustrations, are presented below.