שֶׁבַע sheva

Hebrew word for “seven” · Strong’s H7651 · used 394 times in 345 verses

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Meaning

1) seven (cardinal number); 1a) as ordinal number; 1b) in combination-17, 700 etc; Aramaic equivalent: shiv.ah (שִׁבְעָה "seven" H7655)

How it is translated

Glosses given for sheva in context, with how often each is used:

• seven 368
• seven- 13
• sevenfold 4
• day seven 3
• seven children 2
• seven times 2
• more than seven 1
• more than seven people 1

Where it is used

Also in 15 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 41 (22), Nehemiah 7 (11), Leviticus 23 (10), Ezra 2 (9), Leviticus 13 (8), Numbers 28 (7), Numbers 29 (7), Leviticus 14 (6), Genesis 7 (5), Deuteronomy 16 (5)

Forms

• שׁבע 127
• שׁבעת 107
• שׁבעה 58
• ושׁבע 34
• ושׁבעה 30
• ושׁבעת 9
• בשׁבעה 7
• לשׁבעת 6
• לשׁבעה 5
• בשׁבע 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with sheva more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 76
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 69
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 54
• חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 30
• עָשָׂר asar “ten” 31
• שְׁלֹשִׁים sheloshim “thirty” 26
• חַג chag “feast” 20
• פַּר par “bullock” 22
• מִן־ min “from” 35
• אַיִל ayil “ram” 22
• אֶחָד echad “one” 31
• אַרְבָּעִים arbaim “forty” 20

Key verses

The verses using sheva that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 12:15 — Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first…
• Deuteronomy 7:1 — When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the…
• Deuteronomy 15:9 — Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor…
• Deuteronomy 28:25 — The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed…
• Joshua 6:4 — And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall…
• Job 1:3 — His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household;…
• Job 42:8 — Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall…
• Proverbs 6:16 — These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
• Isaiah 30:26 — 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 the…
• Daniel 9:25 — Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks,…
• Micah 5:5 — And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven…
• Zechariah 3:9 — For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.