Hebrew noun · H7657
שִׁבְעִים
shibimshib-eem'
seventy
91 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shibʻîym
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7657is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 20 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7657
seventy
The King James renders it: seventy, threescore and ten ([phrase] -teen).
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
shibim is rendered "seventy". It stands 91 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty books.
- Twenty-six of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:24If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
Genesis 4:24שִׁבְעִ֥ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty-six of the word's ninety-one uses are in Numbers.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- seventy66
- and seventy23
- and the seventy1
- in seventy1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שִׁבֹּל | shibbol | stream | Uses19 |
| שִׁבְיָה | shibyah | captive | Uses9 |
| שִׁבְעָה | shibah | seven | Uses6 |
| שִׁבְעָתַיִם | shibathayim | sevenfold | Uses6 |
| שִׁבְרוֹן | shibron | breaking | Uses2 |
| שִׁבְעָנָה | shibanah | seven | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 91, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
19 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
- שִׁבְעִ֥ים40
- שִׁבְעִ֣ים19
- וְשִׁבְעִ֖ים6
- וְשִׁבְעִ֥ים5
- וְשִׁבְעִ֛ים4
- וְשִׁבְעִ֣ים3
- וְשִׁבְעִֽים׃2
- בְּשִׁבְעִ֣ים1
- וְהַשִּׁבְעִ֖ים1
- וְשִׁבְעִים֙1
- וְשִׁבְעִ֔ים1
- וְשִׁבְעִֽים׃ ס1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- number (cardinal) · masculine plural42HAcmpa
- noun · masculine plural24HNcmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine plural22HC/Acmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + number (cardinal) · masculine plural1HC/Td/Acmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
Genesis
eight uses
If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
So Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.
- וְשִׁבְעִים֙veshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
When Terah was 70 years old, he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֣יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
Abraham lived a total of 175 years.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֥יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.
- שִׁבְעִֽים׃ פshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Exodus
seven uses
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֣יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֖יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
- וְשִׁבְעִ֖יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
The silver from those numbered among the congregation totaled 100 talents and 1,775 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel—
- וְשִׁבְעִ֛יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֔יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
The bronze from the wave offering totaled 70 talents and 2,400 shekels.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Numbers
twenty-six uses
those registered to the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֛יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
The leader of the descendants of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab, and his division numbers 74,600.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֛יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
The total number of the firstborn males a month old or more, listed by name, was 22,273.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֖יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
To redeem the 273 firstborn Israelites who outnumber the Levites,
- וְהַשִּׁבְעִ֖יםvehashivimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and the seventy
His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
The offering he presented was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Each silver platter weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each silver bowl seventy shekels. The total weight of the silver articles was two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֖יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
So Moses went out and relayed to the people the words of the LORD, and he gathered seventy of the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but they never did so again.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
These were the clans of Judah, and their registration numbered 76,500.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֛יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
and this plunder remained from the spoils the soldiers had taken: 675,000 sheep,
- וְשִׁבְעִ֥יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
72,000 cattle,
- וְשִׁבְעִ֖יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
337,500 sheep, including a tribute to the LORD of 675,
- וְשִׁבְעִֽים׃veshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
36,000 cattle, including a tribute to the LORD of 72,
- וְשִׁבְעִֽים׃veshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
They set out from Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֥יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
Deuteronomy
one use
Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
- בְּשִׁבְעִ֣יםbeshivimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: in seventy
Judges
ten uses
Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
- שִׁבְעִ֣ים׀shivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
There he captured a young man of Succoth and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven leaders and elders of Succoth.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
“Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired some worthless and reckless men to follow him.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.
- שִׁבְּעִ֥יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother—
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
1 Samuel
one use
But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
2 Samuel
one use
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
1 Kings
one use
Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
2 Kings
three uses
Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
1 Chronicles
two uses
And Joab reported to David the total number of the troops. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, including 470,000 in Judah.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֥יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
2 Chronicles
four uses
So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
- שִׁבְעִ֔יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Ezra
eight uses
the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
the descendants of Arah, 775;
- וְשִׁבְעִֽים׃ סveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
The priests: The descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel (through the line of Hodaviah), 74.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
from the descendants of Elam, Jeshaiah son of Athaliah, and with him 70 men;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
and from the descendants of Bigvai, both Uthai and Zaccur, and with them 70 men.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Then the exiles who had returned from captivity sacrificed burnt offerings to the God of Israel: 12 bulls for all Israel, 96 rams, 77 lambs, and a sin offering of 12 male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Nehemiah
five uses
the descendants of Parosh, 2,172;
- וְשִׁבְעִ֥יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
the descendants of Shephatiah, 372;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the house of Jeshua), 973;
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua (through Kadmiel, through the line of Hodevah), 74.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their associates, who kept watch at the gates—172 men.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Esther
one use
The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֖יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
Psalms
one use
The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
- שִׁבְעִ֪יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Isaiah
three uses
At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
- שִׁבְעִ֤יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Jeremiah
three uses
And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Ezekiel
two uses
Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.
- וְשִׁבְעִ֣יםveshivimconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: and seventy
Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Daniel
two uses
in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- שִׁבְעִ֜יםshivimnumber (cardinal) · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
Zechariah
two uses
Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
- שִׁבְעִ֥יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
- שִׁבְעִ֣יםshivimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: seventy
The letters
Gematria 422· 982 mispar gadol
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.
