Strong's Hebrew · H7651

שֶׁבַע

shebaʻ · sheh'-bah

Definitionseven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
Derivationor (masculine) (שִׁבְעָה); from H7650 (שָׁבַע); a primitive cardinal number;
KJV usage([phrase] by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare H7658 (שִׁבְעָנָה).
Occurrences395 in the KJV · 346 verses

שֶׁבַע in Scripture

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;
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