Seventy
שִׁבְעִיםStrong’s H7657shivim (shiv-im)
Appears in 90 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shivim is the Hebrew word usually translated “seventy”. It appears in 90 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- Seventy
How it's translated
- seventy 67
- and seventy 23
- and the seventy 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 26
- Judges 10
- Genesis 8
- Ezra 8
- Exodus 7
- Nehemiah 5
20 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 9:24In contextSeventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
- Zechariah 1:12In contextThen the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
- Zechariah 7:5In contextSpeak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?
- Genesis 4:24If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
- Genesis 5:12And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:
- Genesis 5:31And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
All 90 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁבְעִים shivim · seventy
seventy
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “seventy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEV'ENTY, adjective
[Gr. ten.]
Seven times ten.
- “That he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem” Daniel 9:2
All definitions and other forms of “seventy”
SEV'ENTY, noun
The Septuagint or seventy translators of the Old Testament into the Greek language.
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.