שְׁבִיעִי
seventh
‘seventh’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7637 appears in the Book of Nehemiah — 4 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Nehemiah
- Nehemiah 7:73 הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֔י ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, lived in their cities. When the seventh month was come, the children of Israel were in their cities.
- Nehemiah 8:2 הַ/שְּׁבִיעִֽי ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.
- Nehemiah 8:14 הַ/שְּׁבִיעִֽי ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number ms They found written in the law, how that Yahweh had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
- Nehemiah 10:31 הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֖ית ptcl def.art + Adjective Ordinal number fs and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
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
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.
- #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 →
By section of the Old Testament
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
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.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 2:2
- Exodus 12:15
- Leviticus 13:5
- Numbers 6:9
- Deuteronomy 5:14
- Joshua 6:15
- Judges 14:15
- 2 Samuel 12:18
- 1 Kings 8:2
- 2 Kings 11:4
- 1 Chronicles 2:15
- 2 Chronicles 5:3
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
