שֶׁ֫בַע
seven
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Dual
- Exactly two — for natural pairs and some measures of time.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 166 times (42%)
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Construct 123 times (31%)
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 105 times (27%)
- Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Dual, Absolute 1 time (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 395 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
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2 Samuel 8 verses
- 2 Samuel 21:9 שבעתים שְׁבַעְתָּ֖/ם adj Cardinal number fd adj Cardinal number ms cs + sfx pers 3mp He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Yahweh, and they fell [all] seven together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
- 2 Samuel 23:39 וְ/שִׁבְעָֽה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.
- 2 Samuel 24:13 שֶֽׁבַע adj Cardinal number fs So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.
1 Kings 15 verses
- 1 Kings 2:11 שֶׁ֣בַע adj Cardinal number fs The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty-three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 6:6 שֶׁ֥בַע adj Cardinal number fs The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.
- 1 Kings 6:38 שֶׁ֥בַע adj Cardinal number fs In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts of it, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.
- 1 Kings 7:17 שִׁבְעָה֙ וְ/שִׁבְעָ֖ה adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms There were nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.
- 1 Kings 8:65 שִׁבְעַ֥ת וְ/שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
- 1 Kings 11:3 שְׁבַ֣ע adj Cardinal number fs He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
- 1 Kings 14:21 וּֽ/שֲׁבַ֨ע conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
- 1 Kings 16:10 וָ/שֶׁ֔בַע conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 16:15 וָ/שֶׁ֜בַע שִׁבְעַ֥ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number ms cs In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
- 1 Kings 18:43 שֶׁ֥בַע adj Cardinal number fs He said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. He went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. He said, Go again seven times.
- 1 Kings 19:18 שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs Yet will I leave [me] seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.
- 1 Kings 20:15 שִׁבְעַ֥ת adj Cardinal number ms cs Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two: and after them he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
- 1 Kings 20:29 שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs They encamped one over against the other seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed of the Syrians one hundred thousand footmen in one day.
- 1 Kings 20:30 וְ/שִׁבְעָ֥ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
- 1 Kings 22:51 שְׁבַ֣ע adj Cardinal number fs Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
2 Kings 17 verses
- 2 Kings 3:9 שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, nor for the animals that followed them.
- 2 Kings 3:26 שְׁבַע adj Cardinal number fs When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too severe for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.
- 2 Kings 4:35 שֶׁ֣בַע adj Cardinal number fs Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
- 2 Kings 5:10 שֶֽׁבַע adj Cardinal number fs Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.
- 2 Kings 5:14 שֶׁ֣בַע adj Cardinal number fs Then went he down, and dipped [himself] seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- 2 Kings 8:1 שֶׁ֥בַע adj Cardinal number fs Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn wherever you can sojourn: for Yahweh has called for a famine; and it shall also come on the land seven years.
- 2 Kings 8:2 שֶׁ֥בַע adj Cardinal number fs The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
- 2 Kings 8:3 שֶׁ֣בַע adj Cardinal number fs It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.
- 2 Kings 11:21 שֶׁ֥בַע adj Cardinal number fs Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
- 2 Kings 12:1 שֶׁ֤בַע adj Cardinal number fs In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.
- 2 Kings 13:1 שְׁבַ֥ע adj Cardinal number fs In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] seventeen years.
- 2 Kings 13:10 וָ/שֶׁ֨בַע֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years.
- 2 Kings 15:1 וָ/שֶׁ֨בַע֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
- 2 Kings 16:1 שְׁבַֽע adj Cardinal number fs In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
- 2 Kings 24:16 שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
- 2 Kings 25:8 בְּ/שִׁבְעָ֣ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 25:27 וָ/שֶׁ֜בַע וְ/שִׁבְעָ֖ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
1 Chronicles 21 verses
- 1 Chronicles 3:4 שֶׁ֥בַע adj Cardinal number fs six were born to him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months. In Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years;
- 1 Chronicles 3:24 שִׁבְעָֽה adj Cardinal number ms The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven.
- 1 Chronicles 5:13 שִׁבְעָֽה adj Cardinal number ms Their brothers of their fathers' houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven.
- 1 Chronicles 5:18 וּ/שְׁבַע conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, that were able to go forth to war.
- 1 Chronicles 7:5 וְ/שִׁבְעָה֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 7:11 שִׁבְעָֽה adj Cardinal number ms All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' [houses], mighty men of valor, seventeen thousand and two hundred, who were able to go forth in the host for war.
- 1 Chronicles 9:13 וּ/שְׁבַ֥ע conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs and their brothers, heads of their fathers' houses, one thousand seven hundred sixty; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.
- 1 Chronicles 9:25 לְ/שִׁבְעַ֧ת prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs Their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:
- 1 Chronicles 10:12 שִׁבְעַ֥ת adj Cardinal number ms cs all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
- 1 Chronicles 12:25 שִׁבְעַ֥ת adj Cardinal number ms cs Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
- 1 Chronicles 12:27 וּ/שְׁבַ֥ע conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Jehoiada was the leader of [the house of] Aaron; and with him were three thousand and seven hundred,
- 1 Chronicles 12:34 וְ/שִׁבְעָ֖ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms Of Naphtali one thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty-seven thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 15:26 שִׁבְעָֽה וְ/שִׁבְעָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms It happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
- 1 Chronicles 18:4 וְ/שִׁבְעַ֤ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
- 1 Chronicles 19:18 שִׁבְעַ֤ת adj Cardinal number ms cs The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.
- 1 Chronicles 24:15 שִׁבְעָ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,
- 1 Chronicles 25:24 לְ/שִׁבְעָ֤ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve:
- 1 Chronicles 26:30 וּ/שְׁבַע conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, men of valor, one thousand seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Yahweh, and for the service of the king.
- 1 Chronicles 26:32 וּ/שְׁבַ֥ע conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs His brothers, men of valor, were two thousand seven hundred, heads of fathers' [houses], whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the affairs of the king.
- 1 Chronicles 29:4 וְ/שִׁבְעַ֨ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;
- 1 Chronicles 29:27 שֶׁ֣בַע adj Cardinal number fs The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three [years] reigned he in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 14 verses
- 2 Chronicles 7:8 שִׁבְעַ֤ת adj Cardinal number ms cs So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.
- 2 Chronicles 7:9 שִׁבְעַ֣ת שִׁבְעַ֥ת adj Cardinal number ms cs adj Cardinal number ms cs On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
- 2 Chronicles 12:13 וּֽ/שֲׁבַ֨ע conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
- 2 Chronicles 13:9 שִׁבְעָ֔ה adj Cardinal number ms Haven't you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests after the manner of the peoples of [other] lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of [those who are] no gods.
- 2 Chronicles 15:11 שְׁבַ֣ע שִׁבְעַ֥ת adj Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number ms cs They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
- 2 Chronicles 17:11 שִׁבְעַ֤ת וּ/שְׁבַ֣ע שִׁבְעַ֥ת וּ/שְׁבַ֥ע adj Cardinal number ms cs conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs adj Cardinal number ms cs conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred male goats.
- 2 Chronicles 24:1 שֶׁ֤בַע adj Cardinal number fs Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah, of Beersheba.
- 2 Chronicles 26:13 וְ/שִׁבְעַ֤ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
- 2 Chronicles 29:21 שִׁבְעָה֩ שִׁבְעָ֜ה שִׁבְעָ֗ה שִׁבְעָה֙ adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms They brought seven bulls, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven male goats, for a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. He commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 30:21 שִׁבְעַ֥ת adj Cardinal number ms cs The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, [singing] with loud instruments to Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 30:22 שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding [in the service] of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace-offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 30:23 שִׁבְעַ֥ת שִׁבְעַת adj Cardinal number ms cs adj Cardinal number ms cs The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept [other] seven days with gladness.
- 2 Chronicles 30:24 וְ/שִׁבְעַ֣ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
- 2 Chronicles 35:17 שִׁבְעַ֥ת adj Cardinal number ms cs The children of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.
Ezra 12 verses
- Ezra 2:5 שְׁבַ֥ע adj Cardinal number fs The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
- Ezra 2:9 שְׁבַ֥ע adj Cardinal number fs The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.
- Ezra 2:25 שְׁבַ֥ע adj Cardinal number fs The children of Kiriath Arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.
- Ezra 2:33 שְׁבַ֥ע adj Cardinal number fs The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-five.
- Ezra 2:38 וְ/שִׁבְעָֽה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
- Ezra 2:39 וְ/שִׁבְעָ֥ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms The children of Harim, one thousand seventeen.
- Ezra 2:65 שִׁבְעַ֣ת וְ/שִׁבְעָ֑ה adj Cardinal number ms cs conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.
- Ezra 2:66 שְׁבַ֥ע adj Cardinal number fs Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;
- Ezra 2:67 שְׁבַ֥ע adj Cardinal number fs their camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.
- Ezra 6:22 שִׁבְעַ֥ת adj Cardinal number ms cs and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
- Ezra 7:7 שֶׁ֖בַע adj Cardinal number fs There went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
- Ezra 8:35 וְ/שִׁבְעָ֔ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin-offering: all this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
Nehemiah 12 verses
- Nehemiah 7:14 שְׁבַ֥ע adj Cardinal number fs The children of Zaccai, seven hundred sixty.
- Nehemiah 7:18 וְ/שִׁבְעָֽה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms The children of Adonikam, six hundred sixty-seven.
- Nehemiah 7:19 וְ/שִׁבְעָֽה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms The children of Bigvai, two thousand sixty-seven.
- Nehemiah 7:29 שְׁבַ֥ע adj Cardinal number fs The men of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty-three.
- Nehemiah 7:37 שְׁבַ֥ע adj Cardinal number fs The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty-one.
- Nehemiah 7:41 וְ/שִׁבְעָֽה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms The children of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.
- Nehemiah 7:42 שִׁבְעָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms The children of Harim, one thousand [and] seventeen.
- Nehemiah 7:67 שִׁבְעַ֣ת וְ/שִׁבְעָ֑ה adj Cardinal number ms cs conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.
- Nehemiah 7:68 שְׁבַ֥ע adj Cardinal number fs Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;
- Nehemiah 7:69 שבע adj Cardinal number fs [their] camels, four hundred thirty-five; [their] donkeys, six thousand seven hundred twenty.
- Nehemiah 7:72 וְ/שִׁבְעָֽה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.
- Nehemiah 8:18 שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.
Esther 8 verses
- Esther 1:1 שֶׁ֛בַע adj Cardinal number fs Now it happened in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),
- Esther 1:5 שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs When these days were fulfilled, the king made a feast to all the people who were present in Shushan the palace, both great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.
- Esther 1:10 שִׁבְעַת֙ adj Cardinal number ms cs On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven chamberlains who ministered in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
- Esther 1:14 שִׁבְעַ֞ת adj Cardinal number ms cs and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom),
- Esther 2:9 שֶׁ֣בַע adj Cardinal number fs The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her things for her purification, with her portions, and the seven maidens who were meet to be given her out of the king's house: and he removed her and her maidens to the best place of the house of the women.
- Esther 2:16 שֶׁ֖בַע adj Cardinal number fs So Esther was taken to king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
- Esther 8:9 שֶׁ֣בַע adj Cardinal number fs Then were the king's scribes called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the three and twentieth [day] of it; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to the writing of it, and to every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
- Esther 9:30 שֶׁ֨בַע adj Cardinal number fs He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, [with] words of peace and truth,
Job 5 verses
- Job 1:2 שִׁבְעָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
- Job 1:3 שִֽׁבְעַ֨ת adj Cardinal number ms cs His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
- Job 2:13 שִׁבְעַ֥ת וְ/שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Job 5:19 וּ/בְ/שֶׁ֓בַע conj + prep + Adjective Cardinal number fs He will deliver you in six troubles; Yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
- Job 42:8 שִׁבְעָֽה וְ/שִׁבְעָ֨ה adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has."
Psalms 1 verse
Proverbs 5 verses
- Proverbs 6:16 וְ֝/שֶׁ֗בַע conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
- Proverbs 9:1 שִׁבְעָֽה adj Cardinal number ms Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.
- Proverbs 24:16 שֶׁ֨בַע adj Cardinal number fs For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
- Proverbs 26:16 מִ֝/שִּׁבְעָ֗ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who answer with discretion.
- Proverbs 26:25 שֶׁ֖בַע adj Cardinal number fs When his speech is charming, don't believe him; For there are seven abominations in his heart:
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Isaiah 3 verses
- Isaiah 4:1 שֶׁ֨בַע adj Cardinal number fs Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing: only let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach."
- Isaiah 11:15 לְ/שִׁבְעָ֣ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will strike it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals.
- Isaiah 30:26 שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
Jeremiah 7 verses
- Jeremiah 15:9 הַ/שִּׁבְעָ֗ה ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number ms She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit; her sun is gone down while it was yet day; she has been disappointed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 32:9 שִׁבְעָ֥ה adj Cardinal number ms I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
- Jeremiah 34:14 שֶׁ֣בַע adj Cardinal number fs At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.
- Jeremiah 52:25 וְ/שִׁבְעָ֨ה conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.
- Jeremiah 52:28 שֶׁ֕בַע adj Cardinal number fs This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;
- Jeremiah 52:30 שְׁבַ֥ע adj Cardinal number fs in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
- Jeremiah 52:31 וָ/שֶׁ֜בַע conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the [first] year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;
Ezekiel 16 verses
- Ezekiel 3:15 שִׁבְעַ֥ת adj Cardinal number ms cs Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
- Ezekiel 3:16 שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs It happened at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 29:17 וָ/שֶׁ֨בַע֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number fs It came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first [month], in the first [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 30:20 בְּ/שִׁבְעָ֣ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [month], in the seventh [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 39:9 שֶׁ֥בַע adj Cardinal number fs Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;
- Ezekiel 39:12 שִׁבְעָ֖ה adj Cardinal number ms Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.
- Ezekiel 39:14 שִׁבְעָֽה adj Cardinal number ms They shall set apart men of continual employment, who shall pass through the land, and, with those who pass through, those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
- Ezekiel 40:22 שֶׁ֨בַע֙ adj Cardinal number fs The windows of it, and the arches of it, and the palm trees of it, were after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by seven steps; and the arches of it were before them.
- Ezekiel 40:26 שִׁבְעָה֙ adj Cardinal number ms There were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches of it were before them; and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, on the posts of it.
- Ezekiel 41:3 שֶׁ֥בַע adj Cardinal number fs Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.
- Ezekiel 43:25 שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs Seven days shall you prepare every day a goat for a sin-offering: they shall also prepare a young bull, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
- Ezekiel 43:26 שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.
- Ezekiel 44:26 שִׁבְעַ֥ת adj Cardinal number ms cs After he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.
- Ezekiel 45:20 בְּ/שִׁבְעָ֣ה prep + Adjective Cardinal number ms So you shall do on the seventh [day] of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple: so shall you make atonement for the house.
- Ezekiel 45:23 וְ/שִׁבְעַ֨ת שִׁבְעַ֣ת וְ/שִׁבְעַ֨ת שִׁבְעַ֖ת conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs adj Cardinal number ms cs conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms cs adj Cardinal number ms cs The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin-offering.
- Ezekiel 45:25 שִׁבְעַ֣ת adj Cardinal number ms cs In the seventh [month], in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; according to the sin-offering, according to the burnt offering, and according to the meal-offering, and according to the oil.
Daniel 1 verse
Micah 1 verse
Zechariah 3 verses
- Zechariah 3:9 שִׁבְעָ֣ה adj Cardinal number ms For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the engraving of it,' says Yahweh of Hosts, 'and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
- Zechariah 4:2 וְ/שִׁבְעָ֤ה שִׁבְעָ֤ה וְ/שִׁבְעָה֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms adj Cardinal number ms conj + Adjective Cardinal number ms He said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I have seen, and, behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;
- Zechariah 4:10 שִׁבְעָה adj Cardinal number ms Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of Yahweh, which run back and forth through the whole earth."
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At its core, שבע (shebaʻ) means “seven.” First canonically at Genesis 4:24, it enters the text early. It appears 345 verses across 27 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its common vocabulary. Carrying more than one sense, it rewards its full sense range. It shares a root with שבע, שבוע and שבועה. Dig into 345-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7651 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 →
- 345
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 345 distinct verses.
- 27 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 27 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #128
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 128 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 345 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 345 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 165 verses · 48%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 99 verses · 29%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 81 verses · 23%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 4 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Seven 280×, Seventh 12×, Were seven 8×
- American Standard Version†: Seven 265×, Seventh 11×, Were seven 9×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Seven 234×, Seventh 9×, Seventeenth 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Seven 254×, Were 23×, And 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7651 across 388† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 32 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 6 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7651 across 389† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 49 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 H7651 across 311† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 27 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 80 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7651 across 355† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 18 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 58 further occurrences.
15 senses and sub-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 15 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.
שבע I f. seven (NH id., MI16 שבעת
- 1. without other num.:
- a. שֶׁבַע, before n.fpl. Gn 21:28 (J), Ju 16:13; Is 4:1 + 80 times, especially שׁ׳ שָׁנִים Gn 29:18 (E) + 32 times (but read שׁלוֹשׁ for שֶׁבַע 2 S 24:13a, cf. v b, c, also 𝔊 and ‖ 1 Ch 21:12; so Th We Dr Bu HPS Now), שׁ׳ פְּעָמִים Gn 33:3 (J), Lv 4:6 (P) + 17 times; שׁ׳ בָּאַמָּה רָחְבָּתּ 1 K 6:6; after noun Ez 40:20, 26; n. om. Jb 5:19; Pr 6:16, + (= שׁ׳ פְּעָמִים) Lv 26:18, 21, 24, 28 (H), ψ 119:164 Pr 24:16. e.g. Genesis 21:28
- b. שִׁבְעָה, before n.mpl. Nu 23:1(×3) (E) + 40 times + Jb 42:13 (read שׁ׳ for שִׁבְעָ֫נָה Ges§ 97 c and most); + (distrib.) שׁ׳ וְשׁ׳ Zc 4:2; after n. Gn 7:4 (J), Ex 25:37 (P) + 12 times (P Ch Dn Pr); n. om. 1 S 2:5 + 9 times, incl. שׁ׳ as ordinal, v. infr.; but read שְׂבָכָה for שִׁבְעָה 1 K 7:17(×2) 𝔊 Th Kmp Klo Benz Kit Bur; also שׁ׳ שׁ׳ distrib. = 7 each Gn 7:2, 3 (J); as pred. Gn 46:25 (P). e.g. Numbers 23:1
- c. שִׁבְעַת, before n.pl. Nu 23:4 (E), 8:2 (P), Ez 45:23(×2); Jb 2:13(×2) + 97 times, incl. שׁ׳ יָמִים Gn 8:10 (J), + 88 times + Ez 45:21 (read שִׁבְעַת for שְׁבֻעוֹת, Vrss and mod.). e.g. Numbers 23:4
- d. = ordinal, שְׁנַת (הַ)שֶּׁבַע Dt 15:9; 2 K 12:2 + 3 times, בְּשִׁבְעָה לַחֹדֶשׁ Ez 30:20, cf. 45:20; לְשִׁבְעַת הַיָּמִים Gn 7:10 (J), 1 Ch 9:25. e.g. Deuteronomy 15:9
- 2.
- a. שְׁבַע עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה 17 years Gn 37:2 + 3 times + 1 K 14:21 (וּשְׁבַע וגו׳), also as ordin. בִּשְׁנַת שׁ׳ עֶשׂ׳ 1 K 22:52, בִּשְׁנַת שׁ׳ עֶשׂ׳ שָׁנָה 2 K 16:1. e.g. Genesis 37:2
- b. שִׁבְעָה עֶשָׂר (sc. הַגּוֹרָל lot) 1 Ch 24:15; 25:24 (cf. also, + other num., 7:11 Ezr 2:39 Ne 7:42), + יוֹם 17th day Gn 7:11; 8:4; unusual is שׁ׳ שְׁקָלִים וַעֲשָׂרָה הַכֶּסֶף Je 32:9 7 shekels and 10 the silver. e.g. 1 Chronicles 24:15
- 3. שְׁבַע מֵאוֹת = 700 Ju 8:26 + 39 times (but Ne 7:68 om. Mass. Baer Gi q.v.). e.g. Judges 8:26
- 4. שִׁבְעָה אֶלֶף = 7000 1 K 20:30 + 2 times; שִׁבְעַת אֲלָפִים = id. 1 K 20:15 + 15 times; 57,000 is 7 + 50 × 1000 Nu 1:31; 2:8, 31. e.g. 1 Kings 20:30
- 5. שׁ׳ + other num.:
- a. שׁ׳ follows 18 times: (1) n. s. after שׁ׳ Ju 8:14; also, (= ord. num.) Ez 29:17 + 2 times, שְׁנַת שְׁלשִׁים וָשׁ׳ שָׁנָה 2 K 13:10, cf. 15:1; (2) n.pl. before other num. Ezr 8:35; Ne 7:[72], 71; (3) n. s. cstr. precedes בִּשְׁנַת עֶשְׂרִים רָשׁ׳ 1 K 16:10, 15 (ordin.); (4) n. after each num. Gn 23:1; 25:17 (both P), etc. e.g. Judges 8:14
- b. שׁ׳ precedes 10 times (P and Est): (1) n. s. after other num. Gn 8:14; Ex 6:16, 20 + 3 times Est; (2) n. repeated Gn 5:7; 11:21; 47:28, cf. 5:25, 31 e.g. Genesis 8:14
- c. 1000 + 17 Ezr 2:39 = Ne 7:42.—שׁ׳ often c. sacred signif.: Gn 21:28 ff. (J), Ex 37:23 Lv 4:6, 17; 8:11; 14:27 + (P); as round number Gn 4:24 (song in J), 29:18 ff.; 31:23; 41:2 ff. (all E), etc.; on bowing 7 times 33:3 (J; in great humility), cf. WklTelAm. nos. 143, 230, 246 NeMar. 11 f.; all these prob. originating with week of seven days; cf. especially KöHast.DB number, 562 f., 565. e.g. Ezra 2:39
שבע II
- 1. in Benj., בֶּן־בִּכְרִי 2 S 20:1, 2, 6, 7, 10, 13, 21, 22; Σαβεε. e.g. 2 Samuel 20:1
- 2. in Gad 1 Ch 5:13; Σεβεε, A Σωβαφε, 𝔊L Σαβεε. e.g. 1 Chronicles 5:13
שבע III si vera l. n.pr.loc. in Simeon, בְּאֵר־שֶׁבַע וְשֶׁבַע Jos 19
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
I. n.m. et f. seven (NH id., MI16 שבעת; Assyrian sibi, sibittu (DlGr. § 65, 6; s = שׁ), Arabic سَبْعٌ, سَبْعَةٌ Sab. סבע HomChr 47, 124, Ethiopic ሰብዑ: ሰብዐቱ: Ph. (Pun.) שבע, Nab. שבע, שבעה, Palm. שבעא, שבעה; Aramaic שִׁבְעָא,שְׁבַע, ܫܒܰܥ, ܫܰܒܥܳܐ; on etym. cf. LagBN 37 f.);—m. (c. n.f.) abs. שֶׁבַע Gn 41:2 + 115 times; cstr. שְׁבַע 5:26 + 47 times, especially P (15 times) and Chr (20 times), וּשֲׁבַע 1 K 14:21. f. (c. n.m.) abs. שִׁבְעָה Gn 4:24 + 100 times; cstr. שִׁבְעַת 7:10 + 120 times; sf. שְׁבַעְתָּם 2 S 21:9 Qr (so Vrss and mod.; v. Dr; > Kt שִׁבְעָתַיִם);—seven:
I. si vera l. n.pr.loc. in Simeon, בְּאֵר־שֶׁבַע וְשֶׁבַע Jos 19:2; Σαμαα, 𝔊L Σαβε; prob. del. וְשׁ׳ Di al. (om. ‖ 1 Ch 4:23).—בְּאֵר שׁ׳ v. p. 92a.
II. v. in cpds. אֱלִישֶׁבַע, (בַּת־שֶׁבַע), יְהוֹשֶׁבַע.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שבע (shâbaʻ) (H7650) — to swear.
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.
שֶׁבַע
- (b. h.) seven. Snh. V, 1, v. חֲקִירָה. Ib. 3 בש׳ (sub שעות) at seven hours of the day. Ab. V, 7. Lam. R. introd. (R. Josh. 2) ש׳ מש׳ seven times seven; a. v. fr.—בנות ש׳, ברת ש׳, v. בַּת I a. בְּרַת I.—Esp. שִׁבְעָה (sub. ימים) Shib ah, the seven days of mourning for a near relative. M. Kat. 20ᵃ, v. שְׁלֹשָׁה; a. fr.—Y. M. Kat. III, 82ᶜ; v. שָׁמַר.—Pl. שִׁבְעִים seventy. Snh. V, 5 עד ש׳ ואחד (add to the members of the court,) until they number seventy-one. Ab. Zar. 11ᵇ אחת לש׳ שנה once every seventy years; a. v. fr.
שְׁבַע
- Targ. Gen. V, 7. Ib. IV, 24 (O. ed. Vien. שִׁבְעָה). Ib. XXIX, 27. Targ. Y. II, Num. XI, 26 שׁוֹבְעָתֵי; a. fr.—Y. Kil. IV, beg. 29ᵃ חמש שורין מן שו׳ שו׳ five rows of seven trees each. Y. Sabb. I, 3ᶜ bot. אלו שגזרו … שובעה אינון those laws which they decreed by majority of votes, were seven; a. fr.—Pl. שַׁבְעִין, שִׁבְ׳, שׁוּבְ׳ seventy. Targ. Gen. V, 12; a. fr.
שָׁבַע
- , Nif. נִשְׁבַּע (b. h.) to be sworn, to swear. Shebu. III, 6 נ׳ לבטל וכ׳ if a person swears that he will omit to perform a commandment. Ib. VI, 4 אין נִשְׁבָּעִין על וכ׳ no oath is imposed in refutation of a claim of a deaf and mute, or of an insane person, or of a minor, nor do we administer an oath to a (claimant) minor, אבל נשבעין לקטן וכ׳ but you must make oath when suing a minor or the sacred treasury. Ib. 7 ומי נ׳ מי … שמא יִשָּׁבַע זה וכ׳ which of them is first admitted to an oath? He with whom the (lost) pledge was deposited, lest this one (the debtor) swear (to the value of the pledge), and the other produce the pledge (and prove him a perjurer). Ib. VII, 1 כל הנשבעין שבתורה נשבעין וכ׳ all those bound to swear according to Biblical law swear and are free from payment, but the following swear and receive (are awarded their claim). Ib. 32ᵇ ואינו יכול לִישָּׁבֵעַ, v. שְׁבוּעָה; a. fr.
- to adjure; to impose, administer an oath. Ib. IV, 3 אמרו אין אנו … מַשְׁבִּיעַ אני עליכם וכ׳ if they say, we know no testimony in thy case, (and he says,) I adjure you, and they say, Amen: they are guilty (if they could testify). Ib. ה׳ עליהן … חוץ וכ׳ if he adjured them five times out of court, and coming before court they confess (that they know testimony), they are acquitted. Ib. VIII, 2 מַשְׁבִּיעֲךָ אני וכ׳ I adjure thee, and he says, Amen. Ib. 29ᵃ; 39ᵃ, a. e. וכשמַשְׁבִּיעִין אותו … אנו משביעין אותך וכ׳ and when the court administers an oath to him, they say to him, know that we cause thee to swear not in thy sense, but in the sense of God and in the sense of the court; a. fr.—Part. pass. מוּשְׁבָּע; pl. מוּשְׁבָּעִין. Ib. 31ᵃ מ׳ מפי עצמו one who is sworn on his own demand (in his own case); מ׳ מפי אחרים one who is sworn on other people’s demands (as a supposed witness that claims ignorance). Ib. III, 6 הרשות שאינו מ׳ עליה מהר סיני a religiously indifferent act, on which he is not sworn from Mount Sinai; מצוה שהוא מ׳ וכ׳ a religious act on which he is sworn &c. Ib. 21ᵇ; 22ᵇ, v. סִינַי; a. fr.
שְׁבַע II
- Ithpa. אִשְׁתַּבַּע, Ithpe. אִשְׁתְּבַע, אִישְּׁבַע as preced. Nif. Targ. Lev. V, 22; 24. Targ. Jer. V, 2; a. fr.— Shebu. 29ᵃ ודילמא … וכי קא מִשְׁתַּבַּע אדעתא דיריה א׳ perhaps that man saw a huge bird and called it gamla (camel), and when he swore (that he saw a camel fly in the air), he swore in his sense. Ib. דכי קא משתבע … קא משתבע so that when he swears (that he has paid the money), he swears to the truth in his sense (having given him tokens, v. אִיסְקוּנְדְּרֵי). Ib. 32ᵇ אי … הוה מִשְׁתַּבַּעְנָא וכ if thou hadst come and testified for me, I should have been assigned an oath and received my claim; מי יימר דמִשְׁתַּבְּעַת who can say that thou wouldst have made oath? Ib. לִישְׁתַּבַּע shall he be admitted to an oath? Ib. 26ᵃ ואנא בשיקרא אִישְׁתַּבְּעִי and have I sworn falsely?; a. fr.
- as preced. Hif. Targ. Y. II, Ex. XIII, 19 [read:] מִשְׁבָּע אַשְׁבַּע. Targ. Cant. II, 7. Targ. Cant. II, 4; a. e.—Shebu. 36ᵃ אַשְׁבְּעִינְהוּ ולייטינהו he made them swear, and also pronounced a curse upon them. Ib. 41ᵃ לא מַשְׁבְּעִינָן ליה we do not put him to an oath; a. fr.
שָׂבֵעַ I
- next w.) sated, filled, satisfied. Gitt. 56ᵃ יוצא כשהוא ש׳, v. רָעֵב I. Lev. R. s. 34 לשְׂבֵעוֹ וכ׳, v. רָעֵב I; a. fr.—Pl. שְׂבֵעִים, שְׂבֵעִין, שְׂבֵי׳. Joma 74ᵇ סומין … ואינו ש׳ blind persons eat and are not satisfied. Taan. 10ᵇ אל תראו עצמיכם בפני בני עשו … כאילו אתם ש׳ Ms. M. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) make no show of your plenty before the sons of Esau or of Ishmael, lest they envy you; Yalk. Gen. 148; a. e.—Fem. שְׂבֵעָה, שְׂבֵי׳. Y. Ab. Zar. III, 42ᶜ top the Lord allows the righteous in this world to see their (future) reward, ונפשם ש׳ וכ׳ and they feel satisfied and go to sleep; a. e.—Pl. שְׂבֵעוֹת, שְׂבֵי׳. Midr. Sam. ch. XIII (ref. to I Sam. IX, 12, sq.) וכל האורך הזה … ולא היו ש׳ ממנו why this lengthy speech? It intimates that they looked at the beauty of Saul and could not see enough of it; a. e. e.g. 1 Samuel 9:12
שָׂבֵעַ II
- to be filled, to have plenty, be satisfied. Sabb. 113ᵇ (ref. to Ruth II, 14) ותאכל בעולם הזה ותִשְׂבַּע וכ׳ she (Israel) will eat in this world, will have plenty in the Messianic days, and leave over for the hereafter. Succ. 52ᵇ, v. רָעֵב II; a. e. e.g. Ruth 2:14
- to satisfy. Gen. R. s. 76, end כדי להַשְׂבִּיעַ עיניו וכ׳ in order to satisfy the eyes of the wicked man. Y. Keth. V, 30ᵇ הִשְׂבִּיעָתוֹ; Succ. l. c. מַשְׂבִּיעוֹ, v. רָעֵב II. Snh. 100ᵃ; a. fr.—Ib. 29ᵇ אדם עשוי שלא להשביע את עצמו man is wont not to declare himself wealthy (to disclaim wealth, by saying that he is in debt, even if he is not); כשם שאדם … שלא להשביע את בניו as man is wont to disclaim wealth for himself, so is he likely to disclaim it for his heirs (therefore an ante-mortem confession of indebtedness does not establish a claim against heirs).
- same.—Part. pass. מְשׂוּבָּע. Lev. R. s. 29 (play on השביעי, Lev. XXIII, 24) שהוא מש׳ בכל וכ׳ a month which is plentiful in every thing &c. e.g. Leviticus 23:24
- to be satiated, sick. Num. R. s. 14 עתיד להִשְׂתַּבּעַ, v. סִיג I.
שְׂבַע
- , to be satisfied, saturated. Targ. O. Ex. XVI, 8 למִיסְבַּע ed. Berl. (ed. Amst. למִישְׂ׳); Y. למִשְׂבּוֹעַ. Targ. Ps. CIV, 16 (Ms. ס׳); a. fr.—Part. שְׂבִיעַ, שְׂבַע, סְ׳; f. שָׂבְעָא, סָ׳. Targ. Prov. XXX, 22 דשביע ed. Lag. (Ms. דסביע; ed. Wil. דיִשְׂבַּע). Targ. Job XLII, 17. Targ. Gen. XXV, 8. Targ. Prov. XXVII, 7; a. fr.—Pesik. R. s. 16; Pesik. Eth Korb., p. 57ᵇ, a. e., v. רְוֵי; a. e.
- ; Af. אַשְׂבַּע, אַסְ׳ to satisfy. Targ. Ps. XC, 14. Ib. CVII, 9; a. fr.—Taan. 24ᵃ רחמנא לִישַׂבְּעָךְ … דאַשְׂבְּעָן ברך the Lord satisfy thee, as thy son has satisfied us. Yoma 79ᵇ שַׂבּוּעֵי מְשַׂבְּעא is enough to satisfy the appetite. Gitt. 70ᵃ תמרי מְשַׂבְּעַן וכ׳ dates satisfy, heat &c.; Keth. 10ᵇ; a. e.
- (cmp. צָבָה) to be swollen. Esth. R. to III, 14 א׳ קרסוליה (omitted in Yalk. ib. 1056) his ankle was swollen.
שָׂבָע
- , v. שׂוֹבַע, שׂוֹבְעָא, a. סִבְעָא.
שׂוֹבַע
- plenty, satiation. Ber. 55ᵃ שלשה דברים … רעב וש׳ וכ׳ three things does the Lord himself announce: famine, plenty, and a good leader. Tosef. Pes. V, 3 חגיגה … פסח נאכל בש׳ (Var. על הש׳) the pilgrim’s sacrifice … must be eaten first, so that the Passover offering be eaten after the appetite is satisfied; Y. ib. VI, 33ᶜ לָשׂבַע; Bab. ib. 70ᵃ על השבע. Gen. R. s. 91 שני השָ׳ the years of plenty. Snh. 97ᵃ ש׳ ואינו ש׳ plenty and no plenty (partial plenty); ש׳ גדול general plenty; a. fr.
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Forms in the corpus
The 90 distinct written forms H7651 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.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 30 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7651, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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- שבעה shibʻâh H7655 seven
- שבעים shibʻîym H7657 seventy
- שבענה shibʻânâh H7658 seven
- שבעתים shibʻâthayim H7659 sevenfold
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Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 320 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 345 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 4:24
- Exodus 2:16
- Leviticus 4:6
- Numbers 1:31
- Deuteronomy 7:1
- Joshua 6:6
- Judges 6:1
- Ruth 4:15
- 1 Samuel 2:5
- 2 Samuel 2:11
- 1 Kings 2:11
- 2 Kings 3:9
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