What is the Hebrew word for Tuesday?

Answer 1

יום

שלישי

Yom

Shlishi,

which literally means "Third day"

The days of the week are numbered one through six (Sunday through Friday) with Saturday called Shabbat,

the sabbath (just like Sabado

in Spanish!)

Shabbath

is named after the Hebrew word for seven, 'Sheva',

as is the English word for '7', so in fact the Hebrew days are numbered from one to seven, starting on Sunday as day one. The alphabetical character for V and B is the same in Hebrew. For the same reason the Queen of Sheba is, or was, the Queen of Seven Lands. Sabbath recurs throughout European languages including for example 'ciabatto' bread in Italy, i.e. bread baked on Friday for consumption on Saturday, when work is not permitted according to Jewish law.

Monday only became day one when the early Church decided that it would have a 'day of rest' as well, just like the Jews, at the first council of Nicea

(325), but chose the next day, Sunday instead, so that it could tell which 'Shabbath'

people observed, and thus determine whether a person was a Jew, or one of these new Christians, and thereby determine who was loyal to the new Church.

This was the principal means by which the early Church isolated and identified

Jews, at a time when Jews and Christians were not easily distinguished from each other, and thereby initiated the cult of anti-Semitism.

The rest, as they say, is history.