שִׁבְעִים
seventy
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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.
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H7657 appears — 90 distinct verses across 20 books. 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.
Genesis 8 verses
- Genesis 4:24 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp If Cain will be avenged seven times, Truly Lamech seventy-seven times."
- Genesis 5:12 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.
- Genesis 5:31 וְ/שִׁבְעִים֙ conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
- Genesis 11:26 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- Genesis 12:4 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֣ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
- Genesis 25:7 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
- Genesis 46:27 שִׁבְעִֽים adj Cardinal number bp The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
- Genesis 50:3 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Forty days were fulfilled for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for him for seventy days.
Exodus 7 verses
- Exodus 1:5 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp All the souls who came out of the Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
- Exodus 15:27 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֣ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
- Exodus 24:1 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.
- Exodus 24:9 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
- Exodus 38:25 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
- Exodus 38:28 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֔ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
- Exodus 38:29 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp The brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels.
Numbers 26 verses
- Numbers 1:27 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were sixty-four thousand six hundred.
- Numbers 2:4 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp His division, and those who were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
- Numbers 3:43 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
- Numbers 3:46 וְ/הַ/שִּׁבְעִ֖ים conj + ptcl def.art + Adjective Cardinal number bp For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel, who exceed the number of the Levites,
- Numbers 7:13 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
- Numbers 7:19 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp He offered for his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
- Numbers 7:25 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
- Numbers 7:31 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
- Numbers 7:37 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
- Numbers 7:43 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
- Numbers 7:49 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
- Numbers 7:55 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
- Numbers 7:61 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
- Numbers 7:67 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
- Numbers 7:73 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
- Numbers 7:79 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
- Numbers 7:85 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
- Numbers 11:16 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp Yahweh said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
- Numbers 11:24 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent.
- Numbers 11:25 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
- Numbers 26:22 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֛ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.
- Numbers 31:32 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
- Numbers 31:33 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֖ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp and seventy-two thousand oxen,
- Numbers 31:37 וְ/שִׁבְעִֽים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.
- Numbers 31:38 וְ/שִׁבְעִֽים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The oxen were thirty-six thousand; of which Yahweh's tribute was seventy-two.
- Numbers 33:9 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Judges 10 verses
- Judges 1:7 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
- Judges 8:14 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and the elders of it, seventy-seven men.
- Judges 8:30 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.
- Judges 9:2 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
- Judges 9:4 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp They gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.
- Judges 9:5 שִׁבְּעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp He went to his father's house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
- Judges 9:18 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp and you are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
- Judges 9:24 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
- Judges 9:56 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in killing his seventy brothers;
- Judges 12:14 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
1 Samuel 1 verse
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Kings 3 verses
- 2 Kings 10:1 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up [the sons of] Ahab, saying,
- 2 Kings 10:6 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If you be on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
- 2 Kings 10:7 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp It happened, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.
1 Chronicles 2 verses
- 1 Chronicles 21:5 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.
- 1 Chronicles 21:14 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
2 Chronicles 4 verses
- 2 Chronicles 2:2 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
- 2 Chronicles 2:18 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.
- 2 Chronicles 29:32 שִׁבְעִ֔ים adj Cardinal number bp The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: [for] as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
Ezra 8 verses
- Ezra 2:3 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
- Ezra 2:4 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
- Ezra 2:5 וְ/שִׁבְעִֽים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
- Ezra 2:36 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
- Ezra 2:40 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
- Ezra 8:7 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
- Ezra 8:14 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.
- Ezra 8:35 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp 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 5 verses
- Nehemiah 7:8 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֥ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
- Nehemiah 7:9 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
- Nehemiah 7:39 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
- Nehemiah 7:43 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.
- Nehemiah 11:19 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.
Esther 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 23:15 שִׁבְעִ֣ים שִׁבְעִ֤ים adj Cardinal number bp adj Cardinal number bp It shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it shall be to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute.
- Isaiah 23:17 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp It shall happen after the end of seventy years, that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.
Jeremiah 3 verses
- Jeremiah 25:11 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp This whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
- Jeremiah 25:12 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.
- Jeremiah 29:10 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 8:11 וְ/שִׁבְעִ֣ים conj + Adjective Cardinal number bp There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
- Ezekiel 41:12 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length of it ninety cubits.
Daniel 2 verses
- Daniel 9:2 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
- Daniel 9:24 שִׁבְעִ֜ים adj Cardinal number bp Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
Zechariah 2 verses
- Zechariah 1:12 שִׁבְעִ֥ים adj Cardinal number bp Then the angel of Yahweh replied, "O Yahweh of Hosts, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?"
- Zechariah 7:5 שִׁבְעִ֣ים adj Cardinal number bp "Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
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.
שבעים — transliterated shibʻîym — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “seventy.” Where the King James Version says “seventy,” newer translations reach for “were” (unfoldingWord Literal Text); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 90 verses — moderately common. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Numbers. Debuting at Genesis 4:24, it then recurs through the corpus. 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 H7657 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 →
- 90
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 90 distinct verses.
- 20 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 20 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #455
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 455 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 90 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 90 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 42 verses · 47%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 25 verses · 28%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 23 verses · 26%
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 2 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†: Seventy 50×, Threescore and ten 14×, Threescore and fifteen 3×
- American Standard Version†: Seventy 48×, Threescore and ten 12×, Them 3×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Seventy 38×, Weighing seventy 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Were 13×, Seventy 11×, And 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7657 across 92† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 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 H7657 across 91† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 19 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 H7657 across 57† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 33 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7657 across 42† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 48 further occurrences.
14 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 14 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.
שבעים I pl. seventy (irreg. pl. of שֶׁבַע Ges§ 97 f. R. 1)
- 1. without other no.:
- a. before n. s. year Gn 5:12 + 12 times, man Ju 9:2 Nu 11:25 + 7 times, shekel 7:13 + 11 times, other n. 5 times e.g. Genesis 5:12
- b. before n.pl. kings Ju 1:7, sons 8:30; 9:24; 2 K 10:1, brothers Ju 9:56, asses 12:14, palms Ex 15:27; Nu 33:9, males Ezr 8:7,14. e.g. Judges 1:7
- c. after n. coll. (בָּקָר) 2 Ch 29:32, n.pl. Dn 9:24. e.g. 2 Chronicles 29:32
- d. pred. Gn 46:27. e.g. Genesis 46:27
- e. n. om. Ex 24:1, 9 (man), Nu 7:85 (shekel), cf. Ju 9:4 e.g. Exodus 24:1
- 2. שׁ׳ אֶלֶף = 70,000 2 S 24:15 + 6 times. e.g. 2 Samuel 24:15
- 3. + other num.:
- a. + unit + n. s. Ju 8:14; n. om. 70 + 7 (times) Gn 4:24, cf. Ezr 2:40 = Ne 7:43, so 2 + 70 Nu 31:38; n.pl. + 70 + 7 Ezr 8:35; 5 years + 70 year Gn 12:4. e.g. Judges 8:14
- b. 5 + 70 × 1000 (man) Est 9:16, cf. Nu 2:4; 3:43; 26:32; 2 + 70 × 1000 31:33 (בָּקָר precedes); 70 man, 50 × 1000 man 1 S 6:19; 7 + 70 year + 7 × 100 year Gn 5:31; n. om. 3 + 70 + 200 Nu 3:46. e.g. Esther 9:16
- c. 70 foll. hundreds: 70 year + 5 years Gn 25:7, and (n. om.) 70 + 2 Ezr 2:3, 4 = Ne 7:8, 9, Ne 11:19; + 3 Ezr 2:36 Ne 7:39; 5 + 70 Ezr 2:5. e.g. Genesis 25:7
- d. 1000 + 7 × 100 + 5 + 70 shekel Ex 38:25 and (n. om.) v 28. e.g. Exodus 38:25
שבעים II m. שְׁבִיעִית f.97 adj. num. ord. seventh
- 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
I. n.pl. seventy (irreg. pl. of שֶׁבַע Ges§ 97 f. R. 1);—not decl.:—seventy (often as round no., cf. KöHast.DB number, 563 a):
I. 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 שבע (shebaʻ) (H7651) — seven.
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.
שִׁבְעָה
- , v. שֶׁבַע
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 17 distinct written forms H7657 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שִׁבְעִ֥ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 9:2 | 40 |
| שִׁבְעִ֣ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 1:5 | 20 |
| וְ/שִׁבְעִ֖ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Esther 9:16 | 6 |
| וְ/שִׁבְעִ֥ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 25:7 | 5 |
| וְ/שִׁבְעִ֛ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 38:25 | 4 |
| וְ/שִׁבְעִ֣ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 15:27 | 3 |
| וְ/שִׁבְעִֽים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Ezra 2:5 | 3 |
| בְּ/שִׁבְעִ֣ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Deuteronomy 10:22 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/שִּׁבְעִ֖ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Numbers 3:46 | 1 |
| וְ/שִׁבְעִ֔ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 38:28 | 1 |
| וְ/שִׁבְעִים֙ | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 5:31 | 1 |
| שִׁבְעִ֔ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 29:32 | 1 |
| שִׁבְעִ֜ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Daniel 9:24 | 1 |
| שִׁבְעִ֤ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 23:15 | 1 |
| שִׁבְעִ֪ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 90:10 | 1 |
| שִׁבְעִֽים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Genesis 46:27 | 1 |
| שִׁבְּעִ֥ים | Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute | Judges 9:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7657, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 2 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 81 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 90 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 1:5
- Numbers 1:27
- Deuteronomy 10:22
- Judges 1:7
- 1 Samuel 6:19
- 2 Samuel 24:15
- 1 Kings 5:15
- 2 Kings 10:1
- 1 Chronicles 21:5
- 2 Chronicles 2:2
- Ezra 2:3
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.
