Weeks of Years

Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place. (Daniel 9:24 S!" #. Strong$s %oncordance:

&'(2&. e)bv shabu)a*, sha)+boo,+ah or shabuan -sha)+boo,+ah./ also (feminine" shbu.ah -sheb+oo+a),./ properly, passive participle of '(0& as a denominative of '(0#/ literal, sevened, i.e. a week (specifically, of years):++seven, )ee1. 2mphasis supplied. 3ote: this )ord is first used in 4enesis 29:2' describing the seven year period that 5acob )ould serve 6aban for each of his daughters. 2. Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon says of this )ord (p. 979":
8heptad or seven of years9 relating to Daniel 9:24,20,2(,2'.

3. Jewish writers have left clear definitions of shabuim shibim: The cryptic phraseolo y was pro!a!ly s" ested !y the seven#year cycles of $evitic"s %&.' The Tal("dic tract Midrash Rabbah confir(s )aniel's week* represents a period of seven years+' while the ,ishnaic treatise on the )ay of -tone(ent adds: .ne week in )aniel / (eans a week of years.'* Jesus Is My Judge, pa e 012, !y $eslie 3ardin e.