Week

"week." This noun appears about 20 times in biblical Hebrew. In Gen 29:27 it refers to an entire "week" of feasting. Exod 34:22 speaks of a special feast in Israel's religious calendar: "And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end." In Lev 12:5 the word appears with the dual suffix and signifies a period of two weeks: "But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks…."

is used (a) in the plural in the phrase "the first day of the week," Mat 28:1, Mar 16:2, Mar 16:9, Luk 24:1, Joh 20:1, Joh 20:19, Act 20:7, 1Co 16:2. For this idiomatic use of the word see ONE, A, (5); (b) in the singular, Luk 18:12, "twice in the week," lit., "twice of the sabbath," i.e., "twice in the days after the sabbath." See SABBATH.