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Scofield Reference Index
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Thompson Chain Reference
• Weeks, Feast of
• First Day of the Week
• Feast of Weeks
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Seventy Weeks
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Weeks
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Thursday in Holy Week
• Passion Week
• Holy Week
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American Tract Society
• Weeks
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Weeks, Feast of
Chabad Knowledge Base
• Three Weeks
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Weeks, Feast of
• Week
• Seventy Weeks
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Week
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Absence From Week-Night Services
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Week
• Seventy Weeks
• Holy Week
Hastings' BibleDictionary
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• Week
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Week (2)
• Week
• Passion Week
King James Dictionary
• Week
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Weeks, Seventy
• Weeks, Feast of
• Seventy Weeks of Daniel
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Week, Passion
• Week, Holy
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People's Bible Dictionary
• Weeks Feast of
• Week
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Week
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Week
• Week
Webster Dictionary
• Cross-Week
• Week
• Week-End
Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Weeks
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Edwin Lord Weeks
• Holy Week
• Passion Week
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Seventy Weeks
• Week
• Weeks, Feast of
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Week
• Weeks Feast of
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Chaste Week
• Cross-Week
• Ember Weeks
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Holy Week
• Passion Week
• Week
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Amiel Weeks Whipple
• Holy Week
• Liturgical Week
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Week
• Weeks, Feast of
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• שָׁבוּעַ , שְׁבוּעָה

Week. There can be no doubt about the great antiquity of measuring time by a period of seven days. Genesis 8:10; Genesis 29:27. The origin of this division of time has given birth to much speculation. The week and the Sabbath are as old as man himself. They who embrace this view support it by a reference to the six days' creation and the divine rest on the seventh. Whether the week gave its sacredness to the number seven, or whether the ascendency of that number helped to determine the dimensions of the week, it is impossible to say. The weekly division was adopted by the Semitic races, and, in the later period of their history at least, by the Egyptians. So far from the week being a division of time without ground in nature, there was much to recommend its adoption. It is clear that if not in Paul's time, yet very Soon after, the Roman world had adopted the hebdomadal division.