שבועַ

שָׁבוּעַm. (b. h.; שֶׁבַע) 1) a period of seven days, week.שְׁבוּעַ הַבֵּן, v. בֵּן.Pl. שָׁבוּעוֹת. Lev. R. s. 28 שבע ש׳ שביןוכ׳ the seven weeks between Passover and the Feast of Weeks; a. e. 2) “year-week”, a period of seven years, septennate (the jubilee being divided into seven septennates); also the seventh year, Sabbatical year. Snh.V, l, v. חֲקִירָה. Gitt.77a לאחר ש׳ שנה if a person says, ‘give my wife a letter of divorce (or to his wife, ‘be thou divorced), if I do not come back after the septennate, we must wait one year (after the Sabbatical year). Ned.VIII, 1 ש׳ זה אסור בכל הש׳וכ׳ (not השבועה) if a person, during a Sabbatical year, vows abstinence, using the word ‘this shabu‘a, he is bound the entire coming septennial period and the seventh year of the expiring Sabbatical period. Ib. ש׳ אחד אסורוכ׳ but if he says, ‘one septennate, he is bound from date to date, i. e. counting seven years from the day of the vow; a. fr.Pl. as ab. Y.Sabb.X, 17a top אי אפשר לשני ש׳ שלא חלוכ׳ it is not possible that during fourteen years the fourteenth day of Nisan should not occur on a Sabbath; Y.Pes.VI, 33a bot. לשני שביעית שיחול (corr. acc.).