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שְׁבִיעִי

seventh

‘seventh’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

H7637 Strong's Hebrew
shᵉbîyʻîy Transliteration
/sheb-ee-ee'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 98 appearances

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שביעי — transliterated shᵉbîyʻîy — is a Hebrew adjective carrying the sense “seventh.” It first appears in Genesis 2:2. With 94 verses in 19 books, it is a moderately common word in the Hebrew Bible. It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
seventh
Modern gloss
seventh
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H7637 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →

94
distinct verses
The word appears in 94 distinct verses.
19 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 19 of 39 Old Testament books.
Genesis 2:2
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Genesis 2:2.
Zechariah 8:19
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Zechariah 8:19.
#429
by frequency
Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 429 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 94 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 54 · 57%
  • Historical 33 · 35%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 7 · 7%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 94 distinct verses.

  • Torah (Pentateuch) 54 verses · 57%
  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 21 verses · 22%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 19 verses · 20%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Seventh 75×, Came to pass on the seventh 4×, Came to pass in the seventh 2×
  • American Standard Version: Seventh 72×, Came to pass on the seventh 5×, Came to pass in the seventh 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Seventh 90×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Seventh 88×, Seventh day 4×, Seventh month 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H7637 across 98 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Seventh” 75×
  • “Came to pass on the seventh” 4×
  • “Came to pass in the seventh” 2×
  • “Day of this seventh” 2×
  • “Was in the seventh” 2×

Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H7637 across 98 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Seventh” 72×
  • “Came to pass on the seventh” 5×
  • “Came to pass in the seventh” 2×
  • “Day of this seventh” 2×
  • “Was in the seventh” 2×

Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H7637 across 98 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Seventh” 90×

Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H7637 across 98 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Seventh” 88×
  • “Seventh day” 4×
  • “Seventh month” 3×

Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


Senses in the full BDB

What do BDB’s symbols mean?

BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:

Symbol Meaning
𝔊 the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX)
𝔙 the Vulgate (the Latin translation)
𝔖 the Syriac version (the Peshitta)
𝔗 the Targum (the Aramaic translation)
ψ the Psalms
√ root (the underlying root or stem)
‖ parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel)
† the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited

The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.

  • 1. m. 7th day Gn 2:3 + 47 times; month (חֹדֶשׁ) 8:4 + 23 times + (n. om.) Ez 45:25 + 3 times; lot (הַגּוֹרָל) Jos 19:40 + (n. om.) 1 Ch 24:10; 25:14; n. om. also 1 Ch 2:15; 26:3, 5 (son), 12:11 (man), 27:10 (captain). e.g. Genesis 2:3
  • 2. f. 7th year, 2 K 11:4 + 7 times + (n. om.) Ex 21:2; 23:11, also שְׁנַת הַשְּׁבִיעִית (Ges§ 134 p) Ezr 7:8; sabbath Lv 23:16; time (פַּעַם) Jos 6:16 + (n. om.) 1 K 18:44. e.g. 2 Kings 11:4

Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.


Word origin

m. שְׁבִיעִית f.97 adj. num. ord. seventh;—m. שְׁבִיעִי Gn 2:2 +, שְׁבִעִי Ex 12:15 +; f. שְׁבִיעִית Jos 6:16 +, -עִת Ex 23:11 +, שְׁבִעִת 21:2, -עִית 1 K 18:44; 2 Ch 23:1;—seventh, especially P; always c. art.:

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from שבעים (shibʻîym) (H7657) — seventy.

Part of speech: Adjective TWOT: 2318b


Jastrow Dictionary

A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.

שְׁבִיעִי

  • seventh. Succ. V, 6 בש׳ on the seventh day of Succoth. Lev. R. s. 29 ש׳ חביב the seventh thing is most precious; a. fr.—Pl. שְׁבִיעִין. Ib. כל הש׳ וכ׳ all seventh things are precious.—Fem. שְׁבִיעִית Ib.; a. fr.—Esp. the seventh year, Sabbatical year. Shebi. I, 1 ערב ש׳ the year preceding the Sabbatical year; ib. 4 מוצאי ש׳, v. מוֹצָא III. Snh. III, 3 סוחרי ש׳ traders in fruits of the Sabbatical year; a. v. fr.—Pl. שְׁבִיעִיּוֹת. Y. ib. 21ᵃ bot. שתי ש׳ we must wait for two Sabbatical years before reinstating the trader in Sabbatical fruits in his civic rights; Y. Shebu. VII, 37ᵈ bot. (not שני).—Sh’biʿith, name of a treatise, of the Order of Z’raʿim, of Mishnah, Tosefta, and Talmud Y’rushalmi.

A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.


Forms in the corpus

The 29 distinct written forms H7637 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.

Form Parsing Example Uses
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֔י Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Deuteronomy 5:14 22
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֗י Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Deuteronomy 16:8 15
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֖י Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 23:12 10
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִֽי Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 16:29 7
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֜י Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 14:9 5
הַ/שְּׁבִעִֽי Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 12:15 5
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֑י Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 20:11 4
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִי֙ Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 Chronicles 27:10 3
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֔ית Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 2 Kings 18:9 2
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֔ת Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Deuteronomy 15:12 2
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֖ית Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ezra 7:8 2
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֛י Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 16:26 2
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִי֒ Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 13:5 2
הַ/שְּׁבִעִ֔י Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 Chronicles 24:10 2
בַּ/שְּׁבִיעִ֕י Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Haggai 2:1 1
בַּ/שְּׁבִיעִ֡י Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 45:25 1
בַּ/שְּׁבִעִ֔ית Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 1 Kings 18:44 1
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֑ת Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 25:20 1
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֗ית Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Ezekiel 20:1 1
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֗ת Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 25:4 1
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֨י Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 23:27 1
הַ/שְּׁבִיעִי֮ Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 13:6 1
הַ/שְּׁבִעִ֜ית Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 2 Chronicles 23:1 1
הַ/שְּׁבִעִ֣י Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 Chronicles 25:14 1
הַ֠/שְּׁבִיעִי Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Leviticus 16:29 1
הַ֠/שְּׁבִיעִית Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 2 Kings 11:4 1
וְ/הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֞ת Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 23:11 1
וּ/בַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֗י Adjective, Ordinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute Zechariah 7:5 1
וּ/בַ֨/שְּׁבִעִ֔ת Adjective, Ordinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute Exodus 21:2 1

Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 89 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 94 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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