Satiety
שׇׂבְעָהStrong’s H7654sovah (sov-ah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sovah is the Hebrew word usually translated “satiety” and “satiety your”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.”
Meaning
- Satisfaction, satiety, one's fill
How it's translated
- to satiety 4
- satiety 1
- satiety your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Ezekiel 2
- Haggai 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 55:2Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
- Isaiah 56:11Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
- Ezekiel 16:28Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
- Ezekiel 39:19And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
- Haggai 1:6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Hebrew dictionary
שׇׂבְעָה sovah · satiety
satisfaction, satiety, one's fill
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “satiety” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SATI'ETY, noun
[Latin satietas. See Sate.]
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.