Strong H7620H7620Gשָׁבוּעַ
Weeks
One of the 3 senses of Strong H7620
- Transliteration
- shâbûa‛ shâbûa‛ shebû‛âh
- Pronunciation
- {shaw-boo'-ah} {shaw-boo'-ah} sheb-oo-aw'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
General definition
In the biblical story
Weeks
A Jewish agricultural festival celebrated 50 days after Passover
The Feast of Weeks, also known as Pentecost, was a Jewish agricultural festival celebrated fifty days after Passover, commemorating the wheat harvest and the giving of the Law at Sinai.
In the Bible
Strong H7620G appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- week5
First verses
- Exodus 34:22And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
- Numbers 28:26Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
- Deuteronomy 16:10And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:
- Deuteronomy 16:16Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:
- 2 Chronicles 8:13Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.