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  2. Names of the days of the week - Wikipedia

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    The seven-day week was adopted in early Christianity from the Hebrew calendar, and gradually replaced the Roman internundinum. [citation needed] Sunday remained the first day of the week, being considered the day of the sun god Sol Invictus and the Lord's Day, while the Jewish Sabbath remained the seventh.

  3. Interpretatio germanica - Wikipedia

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    Thursday, the day of Þunraz (Thor, Þórr; Þunor; Donar), was earlier the day of Jupiter, god of thunder. The name is derived from Old English þunresdæg and Middle English Thuresday (with loss of -n-, first in northern dialects, from influence of Old Norse Þórsdagr), meaning "Thor's Day", after the Norse god of Thunder, Thor. The hammer ...

  4. Week - Wikipedia

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    The seven-day week was widely known throughout the Roman Empire by the 1st century CE, [36] along with references to the Jewish Sabbath by Roman authors such as Seneca and Ovid. [37] When the seven-day week came into use in Rome during the early imperial period, it did not immediately replace the older eight-day nundinal system. [38]

  5. Days of week on Hebrew calendar - Wikipedia

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    If Cheshvan has 29 days, then Kislev will have either 29 or 30 days. This is the only occurrence in which it happens. If both Cheshvan and Kislev have 30 days, then the Tenth of Tevet will occur on Friday, one of two public fasts that can possibly be observed on a Friday (the other being the Fast of the Firstborn). The fast is not broken until ...

  6. Wednesday - Wikipedia

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    Wednesday is sometimes informally referred to as "hump day" in North America, a reference to the fact that Wednesday is the middle day—or "hump"—of a typical work week. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Lillördag , or "little Saturday", is a Nordic tradition of turning Wednesday evening into a small weekend-like celebration. [ 7 ]

  7. Hebrew calendar - Wikipedia

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    The actual length of a synodic month varies from about 29 days 6 hours and 30 minutes (29.27 days) to about 29 days and 20 hours (29.83 days), a variation range of about 13 hours and 30 minutes. Accordingly, for convenience, the Hebrew calendar uses a long-term average month length, known as the molad interval , which equals the mean synodic ...

  8. Great Disappointment - Wikipedia

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    They concluded, to their satisfaction, that the end of the 1,260-"day" prophecy of Daniel 7:25 [9] in 1798 started the era of "time of the end". They next considered the 2,300 "days" of Daniel 8:14. [10] Miller's interpretation of the 2,300-day prophecy timeline and its relation to the 70-week prophecy.

  9. Lord's Day - Wikipedia

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    For because the eighth day, that is, the first day after the Sabbath, was to be that on which the Lord should rise again, and should quicken us, and give us circumcision of the spirit, the eighth day, that is the first day after the Sabbath, and the Lord's Day, went before in the figure; which figure ceased when by and by the truth came and ...