Job 1:2

“Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.”

Job 1:2 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Job 1:2, word by word

Sevenשִׁבְעָהshiva

seven

Seven, the number of fullness; also "seven times".

Where else “shiva” appears
sonsבָנִיםvanim

son

The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.

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and threeשָׁלוֹשׁshalosh

three

A quantity of three: three persons or things together.

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daughtersבָּנוֹתbanot

daughter

A girl or woman born of her parents, who belongs to her father's house.

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were bornיִּוָּלְדוּyivaldu

be born

To come into the world, to begin to live.

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The context

1There was a man in the land of Uz; Job was his name. That man was blameless and upright, fearing Elohim and turning away from evil.

2 · This verse (above)

3His livestock was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household of servants; and that man was greater than all the sons of the east.

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