Seven
שִׁבְעָ֫נָהStrong’s H7658shivanah (shiv-a-nah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shivanah is the Hebrew word usually translated “seven”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“He had also seven sons and three daughters.”
Meaning
- Seven
How it's translated
- seven 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁבְעָ֫נָה shivanah · seven
seven
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.