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Seven

שִׁבְעָהStrong’s H7655

shivah (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.”
Daniel 3:19 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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.