Strong's Hebrew · H7651

שֶׁבַע

shebaʻ · sheh'-bah

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

Definition

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

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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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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