Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7647
שָׂבָע
sabasaw-baw'
abundance
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sâbâʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7647is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7647
copiousness
The King James renders it: abundance, plenteous(-ness, -ly).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
saba is rendered "abundance". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Six of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 41:29Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,
Genesis 41:29שָׂבָ֥ע
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's eight uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the plenty5
- plenty2
- and the plenty1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַשָּׂבָ֑ע2
- הַשָּׂבָ֖ע1
- הַשָּׂבָע֙1
- הַשָּׂבָֽע׃1
- וְהַשָּׂבָע֙1
- שָׂבָ֥ע1
- שָׂבָ֑ע1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular5HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ncmsa
Genesis
six uses
Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,
- שָׂבָ֥עsava'noun · masculine singulartagged: plenty
but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.
- הַשָּׂבָ֖עhasava'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the plenty
The abundance in the land will not be remembered, since the famine that follows it will be so severe.
- הַשָּׂבָע֙hasava'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the plenty
Let Pharaoh take action and appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of the harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
- הַשָּׂבָֽע׃hasava'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the plenty
During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully.
- הַשָּׂבָ֑עhasava'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the plenty
When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,
- הַשָּׂבָ֑עhasava'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the plenty
Proverbs
one use
then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
- שָׂבָ֑עsava'noun · masculine singulartagged: plenty
Ecclesiastes
one use
The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.
- וְהַשָּׂבָע֙vehasava'conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the plenty
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.