Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7659
שִׁבְעָתַיִם
shibathayimshib-aw-thah'-yim
sevenfold
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shibʻâthayim
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7659is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7659
seven-times
The King James renders it: seven(-fold, 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
shibathayim is rendered "sevenfold". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:15“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
Genesis 4:15שִׁבְעָתַ֖יִם
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
- sevenfold6
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 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- שִׁבְעָתַ֖יִם2
- שִׁ֭בְעָתַיִם1
- שִׁבְעָתַ֔יִם1
- שִׁבְעָתָ֑יִם1
- שִׁבְעָתָֽיִם׃1
The grammar of each form
- number (cardinal) · feminine dual4HAcfda
- noun · feminine dual2HNcfda
Genesis
two uses
“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
- שִׁבְעָתַ֖יִםshivatayimnumber (cardinal) · feminine dualtagged: sevenfold
If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
- שִׁבְעָתַ֖יִםshivatayimnumber (cardinal) · feminine dualtagged: sevenfold
Psalms
two uses
The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
- שִׁבְעָתָֽיִם׃shivatayimnoun · feminine dualtagged: sevenfold
Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
- שִׁ֭בְעָתַיִםshivatayimnoun · feminine dualtagged: sevenfold
Proverbs
one use
Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.
- שִׁבְעָתָ֑יִםshivatayimnumber (cardinal) · feminine dualtagged: sevenfold
Isaiah
one use
The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
- שִׁבְעָתַ֔יִםshivatayimnumber (cardinal) · feminine dualtagged: sevenfold
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.