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hebdomad

[ heb-duh-mad ]

noun

  1. the number seven.
  2. a period of seven successive days; week.


hebdomad

/ ˈ³óÉ›²ú»åəˌ³¾Ã¦»å /

noun

  1. obsolete.
    the number seven or a group of seven
  2. a rare word for week
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hebdomad1

1535–45; < Latin hebdomad- < Greek (stem of ³ó±ð²ú»å´Ç³¾Ã¡²õ week), equivalent to ³óé²ú»å´Ç³¾ ( os ) seventh ( hepta- ) + -ad- -ad 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hebdomad1

C16: from Greek, from hebdomos seventh, from heptas seven
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In Gnosticism, for example, there is the fabulous story of the Hebdomad, seven Archons, abstract creatures with the power to create or destroy a world.

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The continuity of the astronomical mythos of Equinoctial Christolatry and of the total typology is proved by the persistence of the type—the ancient genitrix, the two sisters, the hebdomad of inferior and superior powers, the trinity in unity represented by Iao the tetrads male and female, the double Horus, or Horus and Stauros, the system of Æôns, the Karaite divinities, Harpocrates and Sut-Anubis, Isis and Hathor.

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Ten Decads encircle her neck, nine Enneads are about her heart, and seven Hebdomads are under her feet, and each has emanated a Hebdomad.

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At any rate, after he has reached the final ascent in the flesh, he still continues to advance, as is fit, and presses on through the holy Hebdomad into the Father's house, to that which is indeed the Lord's abode.

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Why he should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two, weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad.

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