Seventh
שְׁבִיעִיStrong’s H7637shevii (she-vi-i)
Appears in 94 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shevii is the Hebrew word usually translated “seventh” and “at the seventh”. It appears in 94 verses of the Old Testament.
“Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?”
Meaning
- Seventhordinal number
How it's translated
- seventh 84
- the seventh 8
- and in the seventh 2
- in the seventh 2
- and the seventh 1
- at the seventh 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 20
- Exodus 17
- Numbers 11
- 1 Chronicles 7
- Joshua 4
- 2 Chronicles 4
19 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 8:19In contextThus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
- Genesis 2:2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Genesis 2:3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
- Genesis 8:4And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
- Exodus 12:15Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Exodus 12:16And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
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Hebrew dictionary
שְׁבִיעִי shevii · seventh
1) seventh 1a) ordinal number
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “seventh” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEV'ENTH, adjective
- The ordinal of seven; the first after the sixth.“On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work which he had made” Genesis 2:2
- Containing or being one part in seven; as the seventh part.
All definitions and other forms of “seventh”
SEV'ENTH, noun
- The seventh part; one part in seven.
- In music, a dissonat interval or heptachord.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.