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# שָׂבָע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7647

**plenty** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

plenty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7647/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂבָע: n.m. plenty, satiety [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7647/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 41:29 plenty, satiety;—only abs. שׂ׳;— plenty, of bread-stuffs Gn 41:29, 30, 31, 34, 47, 53 (E), Pr 3:10. satiety, Ec 5:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: plenty (8).

## In the verses

[Genesis 41:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.41.29/#tree)

הִנֵּ֛ה שֶׁ֥בַע שָׁנִ֖ים בָּא֑וֹת שָׂבָ֥ע גָּד֖וֹל בְּכָל־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* there! seven years \[are\].about.to.come plenty great \[will be\].in.all the.land of.Egypt

*JPS 1917:* Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.

[Proverbs 3:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.3.10/#tree)

וְיִמָּלְא֣וּ אֲסָמֶ֣יךָ שָׂבָ֑ע וְ֝תִיר֗וֹשׁ יְקָבֶ֥יךָ יִפְרֹֽצוּ׃פ

*Word for word:* so that.they.may.be.filled barns your plenty and new.wine wine-vats your they.will.burst.open

*JPS 1917:* So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy vats shall overflow with new wine.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7647.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7647/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).