Lexicon
שֶׁ֫בַע
she.va
H7651
H:N Hebrew

seven

394
Occurrences
27
Books
Hebrew
Language

she.va is the Hebrew numeral marking a total of seven in counts, periods, measurements, and numbered years.

The supplied verses show this numeral marking quantities and totals: groups of people and animals, units within larger numbers, spans of days, months, and years, measurements, and a numbered day or year. Its construct and absolute cardinal forms occur in these counting contexts without evidence for separate lexical senses.

Senses in use

  1. Numerical total in counts and measures · dominant

    The forms mark a quantity in varied clauses: in 1 Chronicles 15:26 the APB renders the sacrifice of "seven bulls and seven rams," while 1 Kings 6:6 gives a third story "seven cubits wide." They also specify periods and sequence: 1 Samuel 13:8 renders Saul's waiting "seven days," and 1 Kings 20:29 distinguishes "seven days" from "the seventh day."

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the numeral in expressions such as "seven days," "seven thousand," and "seven years," and sometimes uses "seventh" for a numbered point in a sequence. Those English forms only confirm the verse-level numerical setting.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture