Sevenfold
שִׁבְעָתַיִםStrong’s H7659shivatayim (shiv-a-ta-yim)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shivatayim is the Hebrew word usually translated “sevenfold”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.”
Meaning
- Sevenfold, seven timessevenfold, seven times as much · seven times
How it's translated
- sevenfold 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 2
- Psalms 2
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 4:24If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
- Psalms 12:6The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
- Psalms 79:12And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
- Proverbs 6:31But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
- Isaiah 30:26Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁבְעָתַיִם shivatayim · sevenfold
1) sevenfold, seven times 1a) sevenfold, seven times as much 1b) seven times
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sevenfold” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEV'ENFOLD, adjective
[seven and fold.]
Repeated seven times; doubled seven times; increased to seven times the size or amount; as the sevenfold shield of Ajax; sevenfold rage.
All definitions and other forms of “sevenfold”
SEV'ENFOLD, adverb
Seven times as much or often.
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.