Hebrew noun (Aramaic, feminine) · H7655
שִׁבְעָה
shibahshib-aw'
seven
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shibʻâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7655is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7655
{seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number}
The King James renders it: seven (times).
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
shibah is rendered "seven". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 7:14You are sent by the king and his seven counselors to evaluate Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
You are sent by the king and his seven counselors to evaluate Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand.
Ezra 7:14וְשִׁבְעַ֤ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and seven4
- seven2
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שִׁבְעִים | shibim | seventy | Uses91 |
| שִׁבֹּל | shibbol | stream | Uses19 |
| שִׁבְיָה | shibyah | captive | Uses9 |
| שִׁבְעָתַיִם | shibathayim | sevenfold | Uses6 |
| שִׁבְרוֹן | shibron | breaking | Uses2 |
| שִׁבְעָנָה | shibanah | seven | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- וְשִׁבְעָ֥ה3
- וְשִׁבְעַ֤ת1
- שִׁבְעָ֔ה1
- שִׁבְעָ֥ה1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · feminine singular3AC/Acfsa
- number (cardinal) · feminine singular2AAcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1AC/Acfsc
Ezra
one use
You are sent by the king and his seven counselors to evaluate Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand.
- וְשִׁבְעַ֤תveshivatconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and seven
Daniel
five uses
At this, Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than usual,
- שִׁבְעָ֔הshivahnumber (cardinal) · feminine singulartagged: seven
Let his mind be changed from that of a man, and let him be given the mind of a beast till seven times pass him by.
- וְשִׁבְעָ֥הveshivahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · feminine singulartagged: and seven
And you, O king, saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying: ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and graze with the beasts of the field till seven times pass him by.’
- שִׁבְעָ֥הshivahnumber (cardinal) · feminine singulartagged: seven
You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.
- וְשִׁבְעָ֥הveshivahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · feminine singulartagged: and seven
You will be driven away from mankind to live with the beasts of the field, and you will feed on grass like an ox. And seven times will pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes.”
- וְשִׁבְעָ֥הveshivahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · feminine singulartagged: and seven
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.