Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H7651
שֶׁ֫בַע
she.va · “seven”
Used 394 times across 27 books
Definition
1) seven (cardinal number)
1a) as ordinal number
1b) in combination-17, 700 etc
Aramaic equivalent: shiv.ah (שִׁבְעָה "seven" H7655)
1a) as ordinal number
1b) in combination-17, 700 etc
Aramaic equivalent: shiv.ah (שִׁבְעָה "seven" H7655)
Where it appears
Genesis62
Exodus19
Leviticus46
Numbers46
Deuteronomy12
Joshua15
Judges13
Ruth1
1 Samuel7
2 Samuel9
1 Kings18
2 Kings18
1 Chronicles22
2 Chronicles23
Ezra13
Nehemiah12
Esther8
Job7
Psalms1
Proverbs5
Ecclesiastes1
Isaiah3
Jeremiah7
Ezekiel19
Daniel1
Micah1
Zechariah5
In the text
Genesis 4:24If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.Genesis 5:7And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:Genesis 5:25And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:Genesis 5:26And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:Genesis 5:31And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.Genesis 7:2Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.Genesis 7:3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.Genesis 7:4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.Genesis 7:10And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
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