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Lexicon :: Strong's H7651 - šeḇaʿ

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שֶׁבַע
Transliteration
šeḇaʿ
Pronunciation
sheh'-bah
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2318

Strong’s Definitions

שֶׁבַע shebaʻ, sheh'-bah; or (masculine) (שִׁבְעָה shibʻâh); from H7650; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number:—(+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare H7658.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 394x

The KJV translates Strong's H7651 in the following manner: seven (355x), seventh (13x), seventeen (with H6240) (8x), seven times (6x), seventeenth (with H6240) (6x), seventeenth (5x), sevens (with H7657) (2x), seven men (1x), sevenfold (1x), seventeen (with H6235) (1x), seventeen (with H7657) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 394x
The KJV translates Strong's H7651 in the following manner: seven (355x), seventh (13x), seventeen (with H6240) (8x), seven times (6x), seventeenth (with H6240) (6x), seventeenth (5x), sevens (with H7657) (2x), seven men (1x), sevenfold (1x), seventeen (with H6235) (1x), seventeen (with H7657) (1x).
  1. seven (cardinal number)

    1. as ordinal number

    2. in combination - 17, 700 etc

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֶׁבַע shebaʻ, sheh'-bah; or (masculine) (שִׁבְעָה shibʻâh); from H7650; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number:—(+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare H7658.
STRONGS H7651: Abbreviations
I. שֶׁבַע, שִׁבְעָה 394 noun masculine and feminine seven (Late Hebrew id., MI16 שבעת Assyrian sibi, sibittu (DlGr. § 65, 6; s = שׁ), Arabic bdb098709, bdb098710, Sabean סבע HomChr 47, 124, Ethiopic bdb098711bdb098712Phoenician (Punic) שבע Nabataean שבע שבעה, Palmyrene שבעא שבעה; Aramaic שְׁבַע, שִׁבְעָא, bdb098713, bdb098714; on etymology compare LagBN 37 f.); — masculine (with noun feminine) absolute שֶׁבַע Genesis 41:2 + 115 times; construct שְׁבַע Genesis 5:26 + 47 times, especially P (15 times) and Chronicles (20 times), וּשֲׁבַע 1 Kings 14:21 feminine (with noun masculine) absolute שִׁבְעָה Genesis 4:24 + 100 times; constructשִׁבְעַת Genesis 7:10 + 120 times; suffix שְׁבַעְתָּם 2 Samuel 21:9 Qr (so Vrss and modern; see Dr; > Kt שִׁבְעָתַיִם; — seven:
1. without other number:
a. שֶׁבַע, before feminine plural noun Genesis 21:28 (J), Judges 16:13; Isaiah 4:1 + 80 times, especially שָׁנִים שׁ׳ Genesis 29:18 (E) + 32 times (but read שׁלוֺשׁ for שֶׁבַע 2 Samuel 24:13a, compare 2 Samuel 24:13b, 2 Samuel 24:13c, also Greek Version of the LXX and || 1 Chronicles 21:12; so Th We Dr Bu HPS Now), פְּעָמִים שׁ׳ Genesis 33:3 (J), Leviticus 4:6 (P) + 17 times; בָּאַמָּה רָחְבָּהּ שׁ׳ 1 Kings 6:6; after noun Ezekiel 40:20, 26; noun omitted Job 5:19; Proverbs 6:16, + (= מְּעָמִים שׁ׳) Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28 (H), Psalm 119:64; Proverbs 24:16.
b. שִׁבְעָה before masculine plural noun Numbers 23:1 (3 times in verse) (E) + 40 times + [H7658 Job 42:13 (read שׁ׳ for שִׁבְעָ֫נָה Ges§ 97c and most)]; + (distributive) וְשׁ׳ שׁ׳ Zechariah 4:2; after noun Genesis 7:4 (J), Exodus 25:37 (P) + 12 times (P Chronicles Daniel Proverbs); noun omitted 1 Samuel 2:5 + 9 times, including שׁ׳ as ordinal, see below; but read שְׂבָכָה for שִׁבְעָה 1 Kings 7:17 (twice in verse) Greek Version of the LXX Th Kmp Klo Benz Kit Bur; also שׁ׳ שׁ׳ distributive = 7 each Genesis 7:2, 3(J); as predicate Genesis 46:25 (P),
c. שִׁבְעַת, before plural noun Numbers 23:4 (E), Numbers 8:2 (P), Ezekiel 45:23 (twice in verse); Job 2:13 (twice in verse) + 97 times, incl יָמִים שׁ׳ Genesis 8:10 (J), + 88 times + Ezekiel 45:21 (read שִׁבְעַת for שְׁבֻעוֺת Vrss and modern),
d. = ordinal, שְׁנַת (הַ)שֶּׁבַע Deuteronomy 15:2; 2 Kings 12:2 + 3 times, בְּשִׁבְעָה לַחֹדֶשׁ Ezekiel 30:20, compare Ezekiel 45:20; לְשִׁבְעַת הַיָּמִים Genesis 7:10 (J), 1 Chronicles 9:25.
2.
†a. שְׁבַע עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה 17 years Genesis 37:2 + 3 times + 1 Kings 14:21, also as ordinal עֶשׂ׳ בִּשְׁנַת שׁ׳ 1 Kings 22:52, שָׁנָה עֶשׂ׳ בִּשְׁנַת שׁ׳ 2 Kings 16:1.
†b. שִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר (that is הַגּוֺרָל lot) 1 Chronicles 24:15; 1 Chronicles 25:24 (compare also, + other number, 1 Chronicles 7:11; Ezra 2:30; Nehemiah 7:42), + יוֺם 17th day Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:4; unusual is שְׁקָלִים וַעֲשָׂרָה הַכֶּסֶף שׁ׳ Jeremiah 32:9 7shekels and 10 the silver
3. שְׁבַע מֵאוֺת = 700 Judges 8:26 + 39 times (but Nehemiah 7:68 omitted by Masora Baer Gi which see).
4. שִׁבְעָה אֶלֶף = 7000 1 Kings 20:30 + 2 times; שִׁבְעַת אֲלָפִים = id. 1 Kings 20:15 + 15 times; 57,000 is 7x 50x 1000 Numbers 1:31; Numbers 2:8, 31.
5. שׁ׳ + other number:
a. שׁ׳ follows + 18 times:
(1) singular noun after שׁ׳ Judges 8:14; also (= ordinal number) Ezekiel 29:17 + 2 times, שְׁנַת שָׁנָה שְׁלשִׁים וָשׁ׳ 2 Kings 13:10, compare 2 Kings 15:1;
(2) plural noun before other number Ezra 8:35; Nehemiah 7:72;
(3) singular noun construct precedes בִּשְׁנַת עֶשְׂרִים וָשׁ׳ 1 Kings 16:10, 15 (ordinal);
(4) noun after each number Genesis 23:1; Genesis 25:17 (both P), etc.
b. שׁ׳ precedes + 10 times (P and Esther):
(1) noun singular after other number Genesis 8:14; Exodus 6:16, 20 + 3 times Esther;
(2) noun repeated Genesis 5:7; Genesis 11:21; Genesis 47:28, compare Genesis 5:25, 31.
c. 1000+17 Ezra 2:39 = Nehemiah 7:42שׁ׳ often with sacred significance: Genesis 21:28ff. (J), Exodus 37:23; Leviticus 4:6, 17; Leviticus 8:11; Leviticus 14:27 + (P); as round number Genesis 4:24 (song in J), Genesis 29:18ff; Genesis 31:23; Genesis 41:2ff (all E), etc.; on bowing + 7 times Genesis 33:3 (J; in great humility), compare WklTelAm. nos. 143, 230, 246 NeMar, 11 f.; all these probably originating with week of seven days; compare especially KöHast. DB NUMBER, 562 f., 565.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H7655.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:24; 4:24; 5:7; 5:25; 5:26; 5:31; 7:2; 7:3; 7:4; 7:10; 7:10; 7:11; 8:4; 8:10; 8:14; 11:21; 21:28; 21:28; 23:1; 25:17; 29:18; 29:18; 31:23; 33:3; 33:3; 37:2; 41:2; 41:2; 46:25; 47:28

Exodus

6:16; 6:20; 25:37; 37:23

Leviticus

4:6; 4:6; 4:17; 8:11; 14:27; 26:18; 26:21; 26:24; 26:28

Numbers

1:31; 2:8; 2:31; 8:2; 23:1; 23:4

Deuteronomy

15:2

Judges

8:14; 8:26; 16:13

1 Samuel

2:5

2 Samuel

21:9; 24:13; 24:13; 24:13

1 Kings

6:6; 7:17; 14:21; 14:21; 16:10; 16:15; 20:15; 20:30; 22:52

2 Kings

12:2; 13:10; 15:1; 16:1

1 Chronicles

7:11; 9:25; 21:12; 24:15; 25:24

Ezra

2:30; 2:39; 8:35

Nehemiah

7:42; 7:42; 7:68; 7:72

Job

2:13; 5:19

Psalms

119:64

Proverbs

6:16; 24:16

Isaiah

4:1

Jeremiah

32:9

Ezekiel

29:17; 30:20; 40:20; 40:26; 45:20; 45:21; 45:23

Zechariah

4:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7651 matches the Hebrew שֶׁבַע (šeḇaʿ),
which occurs 394 times in 344 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 7 (Gen 4:24–Gen 46:25)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:24 -

If Cain is to be avenged seven times over,

then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:7 -

Seth lived 807 years after he fathered Enosh, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:25 -

Methuselah was 187 years old when he fathered Lamech.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:26 -

Methuselah lived 782 years after he fathered Lamech, and he fathered other sons and daughters.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:31 -

So Lamech’s life lasted 777 years; then he died.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 -

“You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:3 -

“and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky ​— ​in order to keep offspring alive throughout the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 -

“Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing I have made I will wipe off the face of the earth.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:10 -

Seven days later the floodwaters came on the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 -

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the vast watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4 -

The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10 -

So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12 -

After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but it did not return to him again.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 -

By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was dry.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:21 -

After he fathered Serug, Reu lived 207 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28 -

Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 -

And Abimelech said to Abraham, “Why have you separated these seven ewe lambs? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30 -

He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from me so that this act[fn] will serve as my witness that I dug this well.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:1 -

Now Sarah lived 127 years; these were all the years of her life.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:17 -

This is the length[fn] of Ishmael’s life: 137 years. He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 -

Jacob loved Rachel, so he answered Laban, “I’ll work for you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 -

So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:27 -

“Complete this week of wedding celebration, and we will also give you this younger one in return for working yet another seven years for me.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 -

Jacob slept with Rachel also, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:23 -

So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:3 -

He himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times until he approached his brother.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 -

These are the family records of Jacob.

At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended sheep with his brothers. The young man was working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought a bad report about them to their father.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 -

when seven healthy-looking, well-fed cows came up from the Nile and began to graze among the reeds.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 -

After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside those cows along the bank of the Nile.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:4 -

The sickly, thin cows ate the healthy, well-fed cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5 -

He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and good, came up on one stalk.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:6 -

After them, seven heads of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7 -

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, full ones. Then Pharaoh woke up, and it was only a dream.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 -

“when seven well-fed, healthy-looking cows came up from the Nile and grazed among the reeds.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19 -

“After them, seven other cows ​— ​weak, very sickly, and thin ​— ​came up. I’ve never seen such sickly ones as these in all the land of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:20 -

“Then the thin, sickly cows ate the first seven well-fed cows.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22 -

“In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stalk.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:23 -

“After them, seven heads of grain ​— ​withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind ​— ​sprouted up.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:24 -

“The thin heads of grain swallowed the seven good ones. I told this to the magicians, but no one can tell me what it means.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:26 -

“The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years. The dreams mean the same thing.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27 -

“The seven thin, sickly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind are seven years of famine.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:29 -

“Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 -

“After them, seven years of famine will take place, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will devastate the land.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:34 -

“Let Pharaoh do this: Let him appoint overseers over the land and take a fifth of the harvest of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 -

“The food will be a reserve for the land during the seven years of famine that will take place in the land of Egypt. Then the country will not be wiped out by the famine.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:47 -

During the seven years of abundance the land produced outstanding harvests.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 -

Joseph gathered all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and put it in the cities. He put the food in every city from the fields around it.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:53 -

Then the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 -

and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every land, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:25 -

These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel. She bore to Jacob: seven persons.


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