seven
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
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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.