Definition

seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number

Etymology

or (masculine) (שִׁבְעָה); from H7650 (שָׁבַע); a primitive cardinal number;

Word family

• שָׁבַע shâbaʻ

How the KJV renders it

• ( by) seven(-fold)
• -s
• (-teen
• -teenth)
• -th
• times). Compare H7658 (שִׁבְעָנָה)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.