Seven
שִׁבְעָהStrong’s H7655shivah (shiv-ah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shivah is the Aramaic word usually translated “seven”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.”
Meaning
- Seven
How it's translated
- and seven 4
- seven 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 5
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:16In contextLet his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
- Daniel 4:23In contextAnd whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;
- Daniel 4:25In contextThat they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
- Daniel 4:32In contextAnd they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
- Ezra 7:14Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;
Aramaic dictionary
שִׁבְעָה shivah · seven
seven Aramaic of she.va (שֶׁ֫בַע "seven" H7651)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “seven” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEVEN, adjective
sev'n [L. septem.] Four and three; one more than six or less than eight. Seven days constitute a week. We read in Scripture of seven years of plenty, and seven years of famine, seven trumpets, seven seals, seven vials, etc.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.