Word Study · Strong's H7659 · Hebrew
שִׁבְעָתַיִם
shibathayim
shib-aw-thah'-yim
Strong's 1890 spelling: shibʻâthayim
“seven-times”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
seven-times
Rendered in the KJV as
seven(-fold, times).
- 6occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 4 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 5inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 6 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 5
- שִׁבְעָתַ֖יִם2
- שִׁ֭בְעָתַיִם1
- שִׁבְעָתַ֔יִם1
- שִׁבְעָתָ֑יִם1
- שִׁבְעָתָֽיִם׃1
How it is rendered · 1
- sevenfold6
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- number (cardinal) · feminine dual4
- noun · feminine dual2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HAcfda · 4
- HNcfda · 2
All 6, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Genesis2 occurrences
- Genesis 4:15שִׁבְעָתַ֖יִםshivatayimnumber (cardinal) · feminine dual“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.here: sevenfold
- Genesis 4:24שִׁבְעָתַ֖יִםshivatayimnumber (cardinal) · feminine dualIf Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”here: sevenfold
Psalms2 occurrences
- Psalms 12:6שִׁבְעָתָֽיִם׃shivatayimnoun · feminine dualThe words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.here: sevenfold
- Psalms 79:12שִׁ֭בְעָתַיִםshivatayimnoun · feminine dualPay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.here: sevenfold