| 单词 | a week of years |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa week of years b. a week of years: a period of seven years. [Originally (in quot. a13822) after post-classical Latin ebdomas annorum (Vulgate, Leviticus 25:8), rendering Hebrew šabbāṯ šānīm , lit. ‘sabbath of years’ (in šeḇaʿ šabbĕṯōṯ šānīm , lit. ‘seven sabbaths of years’, i.e. ‘seven times seven years’; < šabbāṯ sabbath n. + šānīm , plural of šānāh year: see Rosh Hashanah n.). ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years hendecadOE a week of yearsa1382 weekc1384 Olympiada1387 lustre1387 yearc1425 millenary1551 prenticeship1553 septenary1576 lustrum1590 quinquennal1590 seventy1590 septimane1603 quinquennie1606 threescore (years) and tena1616 duodecad1621 quinquennium1621 jubilee1643 quadrenniala1646 chiliad1653 septennary1659 septennium1660 triennial1661 millennium1664 tetraëterid1678 octennial1679 duodenary1681 quadrennium1779 septenniad1836 quinquenniad1842 milliad1843 tricentenary1846 triennium1847 vicennium1847 bimillenary1850 lustration1853 sexennium1858 septennate1874 quinquennial1877 pentad1880 sexennate1898 aeon1960 a13822wokes of ȝeris [see sense 7a]. c1400 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Tiber.) f. 87 (MED) Þer buþ wokes yset noȝt of dawes bote of ȝerer so þt on woke conteyneþ seue ȝer. ?a1425 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Claud.) (1850) Dan. ix. 24 Gloss. [a1425 L.V. Seuenti woukis, L. septuaginta ebdomades] Here a wouke is nedis takun for a wouke of ȝeeris, and so ech wouk here conteyneth vij ȝeer. 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. 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 147 Doe wee not obserue how in three weeks of yeares three are dead? 1650 W. Sclater, Jr. in W. Sclater Expos. 4th Chapter Rom. Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Having now, (by the space of full three weeks of years, and more)..had a strong dispute with my thoughts, whether [etc.]. 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, but if they should mean weeks of ages, then for many thousand years his coming could not be yet expected. 1725 B. Marshall Chronol. Treat. Seventy Weeks Daniel ii. iv. 242 I see not how Dr. Prideaux can argue from those Sabbaths of Years in Levit. xxv. 8, to the Weeks of Years in this Prophecy. 1791 Conjuror's Mag. Nov. 110/2 The former part of the week, calculated for Christ and his immediate personal household, was on the scale of a week of years. 1865 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 1 161 The year B.C. 700, however, falls in the midst of a week of years, and was not sabbatical. 1903 Pacific 27 Aug. 2/1 If there were only ten true believers in the world, and each made one good convert a year, and the twenty did the same and so on, four weeks of years would convert the whole world. 2009 H. L. Patterson Thy Kingdom Come xxxi. 319 The seventy weeks are interpreted as weeks of years, which total four hundred and ninety years. < as lemmas |
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