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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 7:42 — שׁ׳ 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

H7651

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Strong's Number H7651 matches the Hebrew שֶׁבַע (šeḇaʿ),
which occurs 46 times in 41 verses in 'Num' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:31 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:39 - Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Dan were 62,700.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:8 - Those numbered in his division are 57,400.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:26 - Those numbered in his division are 62,700.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:31 - All those numbered of the camp of Dan are 157,600. They will travel last, under their standards."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:22 - Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:36 - and those of them numbered by their families were 2,750.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:2 - "Speak to Aaron and tell him, 'When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light in front of the lampstand.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:14 - The LORD said to Moses, "If her father had only spit in her face, would she not have been disgraced for seven days? Shut her out from the camp seven days, and afterward she can be brought back in again."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:15 - So Miriam was shut outside of the camp for seven days, and the people did not journey on until Miriam was brought back in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:22 - When they went up through the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:49 - Now 14,700 people died in the plague, in addition to those who died in the event with Korah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:4 - Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times directly in front of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:11 - "'Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:14 - "'This is the law: When a man dies in a tent, anyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be ceremonially unclean seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:1 - Balaam said to Balak, "Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:4 - Then God met Balaam, who said to him, "I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:14 - So Balak brought Balaam to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:29 - Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7 - These were the families of the Reubenites; and those numbered of them were 43,730.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:34 - These were the families of Manasseh; those numbered of them were 52,700.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:51 - These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:11 - "'On the first day of each month you must offer as a burnt offering to the LORD two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:17 - And on the fifteenth day of this month is the festival. For seven days bread made without yeast must be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:19 - "'But you must offer to the LORD an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:21 - For each of the seven lambs you are to offer one-tenth of an ephah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:24 - In this manner you must offer daily throughout the seven days the food of the sacrifice made by fire as a sweet aroma to the LORD. It is to be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:27 - But you must offer as the burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the LORD, two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs one year old,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:29 - with one-tenth for each of the seven lambs,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:2 - You must offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs one year old without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:4 - and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:8 - But you must offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:10 - and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:12 - "'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work, and you must keep a festival to the LORD for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:32 - "'On the seventh day you must offer seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:36 - But you must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, one bull, one ram, seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:19 - "Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:36 - The half-portion of those who went to war numbered 337,500 sheep;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:43 - there were 337,500 sheep from the portion belonging to the community,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:52 - All the gold of the offering they offered up to the LORD from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds weighed 16,750 shekels.
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