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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 394 times in 344 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 7 (Gen 4:24–Gen 46:25)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:24 - If Kayin will be avenged seven times, Truly Lamekh seventy-seven times.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:7 - Shet lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:25 - Metushelach lived one hundred eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamekh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:26 - Metushelach lived after he became the father of Lamekh seven hundred eighty-two years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:31 - All the days of Lamekh were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:3 - Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the eretz for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:10 - It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the eretz.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noach's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4 - The teivah rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on Ararat's mountains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10 - He stayed yet another seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the teivah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12 - He stayed yet another seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she didn't return to him any more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 - In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the eretz was dry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:21 - Re`u lived after he became the father of Serug two hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28 - Avraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - Avimelekh said to Avraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30 - He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:1 - Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. These were the years of Sarah's life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:17 - These are the years of the life of Yishma'el: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Ya`akov loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - Ya`akov served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:27 - Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 - He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Le'ah, and served with him yet seven other years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:23 - He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gil`ad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:3 - He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the history of the generations of Ya`akov. Yosef, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Yosef brought an evil report of them to their father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, well-favored and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed-grass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:4 - The ill-favored and lean-fleshed cattle ate up the seven well-favored and fat cattle. So Par`oh awoke.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5 - He slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:6 - Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7 - The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Par`oh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 - and, behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat-fleshed and well-favored. They fed in the reed-grass,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19 - and, behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Mitzrayim for ugliness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:20 - The lean and ill-favored cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22 - I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:23 - and, behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:24 - The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians; but there was no one who could explain it to me."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:26 - The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27 - The seven lean and ill-favored cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:29 - Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Mitzrayim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 - There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Mitzrayim. The famine will consume the land,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:34 - Let Par`oh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Mitzrayim's produce in the seven plenteous years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Mitzrayim; that the land not perish through the famine."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:47 - In the seven plenteous years the eretz brought forth abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 - He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Mitzrayim, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, he laid up in the same.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:53 - The seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Mitzrayim, came to an end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - The seven years of famine began to come, just as Yosef had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Mitzrayim there was bread.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:25 - These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Lavan gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Ya`akov: all the souls were seven.

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