Strong's Hebrew · H7651

H7651 shebaʻ

שֶׁבַע

sheh'-bah

seven

shebaʻ appears 392 times in Scripture, including Genesis 4:24 and Exodus 29:30. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number

In the King James Version

( by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare H7658 (שִׁבְעָנָה).

Derivation

or (masculine) (שִׁבְעָה); from H7650 (שָׁבַע); a primitive cardinal number;

Appears 392 times in Scripture

Genesis 7:2

“You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;”

Genesis 7:3

“and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.”

Exodus 29:30

“The son who succeeds him as priest and enters the Tent of Meeting to minister in the Holy Place must wear them for seven days.”

Genesis 5:31

“So Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.”

Genesis 4:24

“If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.””

Genesis 5:26

“And after he had become the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.”

Genesis 5:25

“When Methuselah was 187 years old, he became the father of Lamech.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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Strong's concordance glosses from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0). Scripture quotations are from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain.

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