Abundance
שָׂבָעStrong’s H7647sava (sa-va)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sava is the Hebrew word usually translated “plenty”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:”
Meaning
- Plenty, satietyplenty (of breadstuffs) · satiety
How it's translated
- plenty 5
- the plenty 2
- and the plenty 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 6
- Proverbs 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 41:30And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
- Genesis 41:31And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
- Genesis 41:34Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
- Genesis 41:47And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
- Genesis 41:53And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.
- Proverbs 3:10So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂבָע sava · abundance
1) plenty, satiety 1a) plenty (of breadstuffs) 1b) satiety
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “abundance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ABUND'ANCE, noun
Great plenty; an overflowing quantity; ample sufficiency; in strictness applicable to quantity only; but customarily used of number, as an abundance of peasants.
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.