Fullness
שִׂבְעָהStrong’s H7653sivah (siv-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sivah is the Hebrew word usually translated “surfeit of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”
Meaning
- Satisfaction, satiety, one's fill
How it's translated
- surfeit of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
שִׂבְעָה sivah · fullness
satisfaction, satiety, one's fill
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fullness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FULL'NESS, noun
[from full.]
- The state of being filled, so as to leave no part vacant.
- The state of abounding or being in great plenty; abundance.
- Completeness; the state of a thing in which nothing is wanted; perfection.
- Repletion; satiety; as from intemperance.
All definitions
- Repletion of vessels; as fullness of blood.
- Plenty; wealth; affluence.
- Struggling perturbation; swelling; as the fullness of the heart.
- Largeness; extent.
- Loudness; force of sound, such as fills the ear.
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.