Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H7651: שֶׁבַע

shebaʻ · pronounced sheh'-bah · “seven”

Definition

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

KJV translates it as: ([phrase] by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare H7658 (שִׁבְעָנָה).

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

Extended definition

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

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H7651 is translated

  • seven ×332
  • the seven ×20
  • seven- ×11
  • were seven ×8
  • are seven ×4
  • was seven ×4
  • sevenfold ×4
  • day seven ×3
  • the seven- ×2
  • seven children ×2
  • seven times ×2
  • seven of ×1

Bible verses with H7651 (shebaʻ)

Shebaʻ appears in 346 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

  • Genesis 4:24

    If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

  • Genesis 5:7

    And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Genesis 5:25

    And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:

  • Genesis 5:26

    And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

  • Genesis 5:31

    And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

  • Genesis 7:2

    Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

  • Genesis 7:3

    Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

  • Genesis 7:4

    For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

  • Genesis 7:10

    And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

  • Genesis 7:11

    In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

  • Genesis 8:4

    And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

  • Genesis 8:10

    And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

  • Genesis 8:12

    And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

  • Genesis 8:14

    And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

  • Genesis 11:21

    And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

  • Genesis 21:28

    And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

  • Genesis 21:29

    And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

  • Genesis 21:30

    And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

  • Genesis 23:1

    And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

  • Genesis 25:17

    And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

  • Genesis 29:18

    And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

  • Genesis 29:20

    And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

  • Genesis 29:27

    Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

  • Genesis 29:30

    And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

  • Genesis 31:23

    And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

All 346 references

Words derived from H7651