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  • noun Plural form of heptad.

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Examples

  • Seventy weeks [literally heptads] have been decreed upon thy people and thy holy city, to close transgression and to make an end of sins, and to expiate iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint a most holy [literally: holiness of holinesses].

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Seventy weeks -- namely, of years; literally, "Seventy sevens"; seventy heptads or hebdomads; four hundred ninety years; expressed in a form of "concealed definiteness" [Hengstenberg], a usual way with the prophets.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • They claim that Daniel 9: 24-27 doesn't support a day-year principle - the "seventy sevens" are simply "septets" or "heptads" and not seventy

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • They claim that Daniel 9: 24-27 doesn't support a day-year principle - the "seventy sevens" are simply "septets" or "heptads" and not seventy

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • They claim that Daniel 9: 24-27 doesn't support a day-year principle - the "seventy sevens" are simply "septets" or "heptads" and not seventy

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • They claim that Daniel 9: 24-27 doesn't support a day-year principle - the "seventy sevens" are simply "septets" or "heptads" and not seventy

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • They claim that Daniel 9: 24-27 doesn't support a day-year principle - the "seventy sevens" are simply "septets" or "heptads" and not seventy

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • They claim that Daniel 9: 24-27 doesn't support a day-year principle - the "seventy sevens" are simply "septets" or "heptads" and not seventy

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • They claim that Daniel 9: 24-27 doesn't support a day-year principle - the "seventy sevens" are simply "septets" or "heptads" and not seventy

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • They claim that Daniel 9: 24-27 doesn't support a day-year principle - the "seventy sevens" are simply "septets" or "heptads" and not seventy

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

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