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Deuteronomy 16

Deut. 16:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Seven
sheba` (Hebrew #7651)
from 7650; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
KJV usage: (+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare 7658.
Pronounce: sheh'-bah
Origin: or (masculine) shibrah {shib-aw'}
u weeks
shabuwa` (Hebrew #7620)
also (feminine) shbu.ah {sheb-oo-aw'}; properly, passive participle of 7650 as a denominative of 7651; literal, sevened, i.e. a week (specifically, of years)
KJV usage: seven, week.
Pronounce: shaw-boo'-ah
Origin: or shabuan {shaw-boo'-ah}
shalt thou number
caphar (Hebrew #5608)
properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e. celebrate
KJV usage: commune, (ac-)count; declare, number, + penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.
Pronounce: saw-far'
Origin: a primitive root
unto thee: begin
chalal (Hebrew #2490)
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute)
KJV usage: begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Pronounce: khaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2470)
to number
caphar (Hebrew #5608)
properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e. celebrate
KJV usage: commune, (ac-)count; declare, number, + penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.
Pronounce: saw-far'
Origin: a primitive root
the seven
sheba` (Hebrew #7651)
from 7650; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
KJV usage: (+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare 7658.
Pronounce: sheh'-bah
Origin: or (masculine) shibrah {shib-aw'}
weeks
shabuwa` (Hebrew #7620)
also (feminine) shbu.ah {sheb-oo-aw'}; properly, passive participle of 7650 as a denominative of 7651; literal, sevened, i.e. a week (specifically, of years)
KJV usage: seven, week.
Pronounce: shaw-boo'-ah
Origin: or shabuan {shaw-boo'-ah}
from such time as thou beginnest
chalal (Hebrew #2490)
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute)
KJV usage: begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Pronounce: khaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2470)
to put the sickle
chermesh (Hebrew #2770)
a sickle (as cutting)
KJV usage: sickle.
Pronounce: kher-mashe'
Origin: from 2763
to the corn
qamah (Hebrew #7054)
something that rises, i.e. a stalk of grain
KJV usage: (standing) corn, grown up, stalk.
Pronounce: kuw-maw'
Origin: feminine of active participle of 6965
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Ex. 23:16• 16{i}and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours which thou hast sown in the field, and the feast of in-gathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field.{/i} (Ex. 23:16)
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Ex. 34:22• 22{i}—And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year.{/i} (Ex. 34:22)
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Lev. 23:15• 15And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering, seven Sabbaths shall be complete, (Lev. 23:15)
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Acts 2:1• 1And when the day of Pentecost was in course of fulfilment, they were all together in one place. (Acts 2:1)

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Corn,
Seven,
Sickle,
Week

Cross References

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Deut. 16:10,16• 10And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto Jehovah thy God, according as Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee:
 16Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose, {i}at the feast of unleavened bread, and at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Jehovah empty:{/i} (Deut. 16:10,16)
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Ex. 23:16• 16{i}and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours which thou hast sown in the field, and the feast of in-gathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field.{/i} (Ex. 23:16)
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Ex. 34:22• 22{i}—And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the turn of the year.{/i} (Ex. 34:22)
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Lev. 23:15‑16• 15And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering, seven Sabbaths shall be complete,
 16even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah. (Lev. 23:15‑16)
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Num. 28:26‑30• 26And in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meal-offering unto Jehovah , after your weeks be out, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
 27but ye shall offer the burnt-offering for a sweet savour unto Jehovah; two young bullocks, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year.
 28{i}and their oblation of fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for one bullock, two tenth parts for the ram,{/i}
 29{i}one tenth part for each lamb of the seven lambs;{/i}
 30{i}and one buck of the goats, to make atonement for you.{/i} (Num. 28:26‑30)
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2 Chron. 8:13• 13{i}even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and at the set feasts, three times in the year, —at the feast of unleavened bread, and at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of tabernacles.{/i} (2 Chron. 8:13)
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Acts 2:1• 1And when the day of Pentecost was in course of fulfilment, they were all together in one place. (Acts 2:1)
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1 Cor. 16:8• 8But I will stay on at Ephesus until Pentecost. (1 Cor. 16:8)
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Heb. 2:1• 1For this reason we ought to give heed more abundantly to the things heard, lest in any way we should be carried away. (Heb. 2:1)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Seven weeks shalt thou count: from the beginning of putting the sickle into the corn shalt thou begin to count seven weeks.

W. Kelly Translation

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Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.