sha.vu.a denotes a week or a counted period called a week, including the name of a feast.

The term most often marks a bounded period described as a week, whether completed, counted, mourned, or set within a numbered sequence. It also occurs in the title of the Feast of Weeks and related festival observances.

1. A counted or completed weekly period · dominant

   In Genesis 29:27 and Genesis 29:28, the singular form names the period Jacob is told to complete. Daniel 10:2 and Daniel 10:3 place Daniel's mourning and abstinence within three such periods, while Daniel 9:24, Daniel 9:25, Daniel 9:26, and Daniel 9:27 use plural and singular forms in numbered spans, including one period and half of it.

   Genesis 29:27Genesis 29:28Daniel 10:2Daniel 10:3Daniel 9:24Daniel 9:27
2. The festival called the Feast of Weeks · common

   In Exodus 34:22, Deuteronomy 16:10, and Deuteronomy 16:16, plural forms occur in the festival title alongside instructions to observe or keep the feast. Numbers 28:26 places the construct plural in regulations for a new offering during "your Weeks," and 2 Chronicles 8:13 lists the Feast of Weeks among annual appointed festivals.

   Exodus 34:22Deuteronomy 16:10Deuteronomy 16:16Numbers 28:262 Chronicles 8:13

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as "week" or "weeks," while festival contexts are rendered "Feast of Weeks" or "Weeks." Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings only indicate the clauses in which the Hebrew form occurs.