Biblica Analytica

שִׁבְעִים

shiv.im (H7657)

seventy

91 verses 20 books OT 90 / NT 0
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# שִׁבְעִים (Shiv'im) — Seventy The Hebrew word *shiv'im* carries the straightforward numerical meaning of "seventy," appearing 91 times throughout the biblical text. This frequency of occurrence indicates that the number held practical importance in ancient Israelite life and literature, appearing regularly enough to warrant consistent documentation across different biblical books and genres. The high occurrence count (91 instances) suggests that seventy functioned as a significant number in biblical contexts—whether for literal enumeration of people, objects, or time periods, or for symbolic and traditional usage. The regularity with which this specific number appears in the scriptural record indicates it may have carried particular weight in Hebrew cultural or religious contexts, though the lexical data alone cannot specify those contextual meanings. The word's straightforward definition as a cardinal number indicates it served a basic mathematical function in the biblical language.

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Genesis 4:24

If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”

Genesis 5:12

Kenan lived seventy years, then became the father of Mahalalel.

Genesis 5:31

All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.

Genesis 11:26

Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 12:4

So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Genesis 25:7

These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

Genesis 46:27

The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

Genesis 50:3

Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.

Exodus 1:5

All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

Exodus 15:27

They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.

Exodus 24:1

He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.

Exodus 24:9

Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

Exodus 38:25

The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:

Exodus 38:28

From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.

Exodus 38:29

The bronze of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels.

Numbers 1:27

those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Numbers 2:4

His division, and those who were counted of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Numbers 3:43

All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

Numbers 3:46

For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,

Numbers 7:13

and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7:19

He offered for his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7:25

gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7:31

gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7:37

gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7:43

gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7:49

gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7:55

gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7:61

gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7:67

gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7:73

gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7:79

gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;

Numbers 7:85

each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

Numbers 11:16

Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.

Numbers 11:24

Moses went out, and told the people Yahweh’s words; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them around the Tent.

Numbers 11:25

Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.

Numbers 26:22

These are the families of Judah according to those who were counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.

Numbers 31:32

Now the plunder, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

Numbers 31:33

seventy-two thousand head of cattle,

Numbers 31:37

and Yahweh’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred seventy-five.

Numbers 31:38

The cattle were thirty-six thousand, of which Yahweh’s tribute was seventy-two.

Numbers 33:9

They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim. In Elim, there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Judges 1:7

Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Judges 8:14

He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.

Judges 8:30

Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body, for he had many wives.

Judges 9:2

“Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”

Judges 9:4

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and reckless fellows who followed him.

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

Judges 9:18

and you have risen up against my father’s house today and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);

Judges 9:24

that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.

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