单词 | a week of days |
释义 | > as lemmasa week of days a. a week of days: a period of seven days, one week; (also occasionally) a full week, an entire week. [Originally (in quot. a13821) after post-classical Latin ebdomas dierum (Vulgate, Genesis 29:27); the Hebrew original of the translated passage has šāḇūaʿ week, period of seven days (see Shavuot n.) without further qualification. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a week > [noun] weekeOE sennightOE seven daysOE weekOE seven days and seven nightsOE (an) eight daysc1160 a week of daysa1382 week1398 sennight dayc1425 septimane1450 seventh night1567 sennight space1599 hebdomad1600 septuary1646 heptad1876 a13821wike of days [see sense 7a]. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Dan. x. 2 At the same time, I Daniel was in heauines for thre weekes of daies [a1382 days of three wekis]. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Dan. x. 3 Til thre weekes of daies were fulfilled. a1591 H. Smith Gods Arrowe (1593) ii. D 1 b This worde Hebdomada..is sometimes taken for a weeke of daies, that is, seauen daies... But at other times it signifieth the space of seauen yeares, and then is it called Hebdomada Annorum, A weeke of yeares. 1611 Bible (King James) Dan. x. 3 Three full weekes [margin, Heb. weeks of dayes] . View more context for this quotation] 1674 R. Fleming Faithfulness of God iii. 93 They know Daniels Seventy weeks..clearly takes in his [sc. the Messiah's] coming, and though it were taken either for weeks of days, or of years, it must be long since expired. 1725 B. Marshall Chronol. Treat. Seventy Weeks Daniel Introd. 9 Daniel here speaks of ordinary Weeks or Weeks of Days, and not of..prophetical Weeks, or Weeks of Years. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor ix, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 260 They dared not keep me a week of days in durance. 1876 tr. Keil & Delitzsch's Ezek. II. 336 A feast of heptads of days or weeks of days. 1918 Bible Rev. June 60 We pass on to find in the Levitical Law a week of weeks of days leading to a fiftieth day—a Pentecostal Sabbath. 2011 C. Ben Avraham Bk. Daniel Unsealed II. ii. 22 Daniel, knowing that confusion would arise in interpreting his fast, states that his fast was for three weeks of days, not three weeks of years! < as lemmas |
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