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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Week \Week\, n. [OE. weke, wike, woke, wuke AS weocu wicu, wucu akin to OS wika, OFries wike, D. week, G. woche, OHG. wohha wehha Icel. vika, Sw vecka Dan. uge, Goth. wik?, probably originally meaning, a succession or change, and akin to G. wechsel change, L. vicis turn, alternation, and E. weak. Cf {Weak}.] A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next I fast twice in the week. --Luke xviii. 12. Note: Although it [the week] did not enter into the calendar of the Greeks, and was not introduced at Rome till after the reign of Theodesius it has been employed from time immemorial in almost all Eastern countries. --Encyc. Brit. {Feast of Weeks}. See {Pentecost}, 1. {Prophetic week}, a week of years, or seven years. --Dan. ix 24. {Week day}. See under {Day}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: week n 1: any period of seven consecutive days; "it rained for a week" [syn: {hebdomad}] 2: a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday [syn: {calendar week}] 3: hours or days of work in a calendar week; "they worked a 40-hour week" [syn: {workweek}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Week From the beginning, time was divided into weeks, each consisting of six days of working and one of rest (Gen. 2:2, 3; 7:10; 8:10, 12; 29:28). The references to this division of days becomes afterwards more frequent (Ex. 34:22; Lev. 12:5; Num. 28:26; Deut. 16:16; 2 Chr. 8:13; Jer. 5:24; Dan. 9:24-27; 10:2, 3). It has been found to exist among almost all nations.
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