sava · be satisfied

What it means

sava (שָׂבַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be satisfied”.

Be filled, be satisfied.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To eat until one wants no more.
2. To have plenty, be fed up.
3. To give another all they need: YHWH gives good in plenty.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To be satisfied, to be filled with food or with something else; in the causative form, to satisfy. BDB: to sate, to fill to satisfaction, literally or figuratively. From the same root is שָׂבֵעַ, “satisfied”.

• Eating until satisfied Exodus 16:12Ruth 2:14
• “You will eat and be satisfied, and you shall bless YHWH” Deuteronomy 8:10
• YHWH satisfies: “who satisfies with good your ornament” Psalms 103:5
• “I will be satisfied, when I awake, with your form” Psalms 17:15Isaiah 53:11
• What is never satisfied Proverbs 30:15

How we translate it

“Satisfied” 61 times, “filled” 13, “satisfy” 10, “sated” 6, “full” 2…: “satisfy” serves for nearly every use, the figurative ones too; “filled” when it is food (Exodus 16:12).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• satisfied ×61
• filled ×13
• satisfy ×10
• sated ×6
• full ×2
• I have had enough ×1
• fills me ×1
• he satisfies you ×1
• we had plenty ×1
• who satisfies ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×7
• Ruth×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×6
• Psalms×23
• Proverbs×18
• Ecclesiastes×4
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×6
• Lamentations×3
• Ezekiel×6
• Hosea×3
• Joel×2
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×2

• Exodus 16:8

  Moses said, “This will happen when YHWH gives you in the evening meat to eat and bread in the morning to the full, because YHWH has heard your grumblings that you grumble against him. As for us, what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against YHWH.”

• Exodus 16:12

  “I have heard the grumblings of the sons of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread; and you shall know that I am YHWH your Elohim.’ ”

• Leviticus 26:26

  When I break for you the staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and give back your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

• Deuteronomy 6:11

  houses full of all good things that you did not fill, cisterns dug that you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant— and you eat and are satisfied,

• Deuteronomy 8:10

  You will eat and be satisfied, and you shall bless YHWH your Elohim for the good land that he has given you.

• Deuteronomy 8:12

  lest you eat and are satisfied, and build good houses and live in them,

• Deuteronomy 11:15

  I will give grass in your field for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied.

• Deuteronomy 14:29

  And the Levite shall come, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the resident alien, the orphan, and the widow who are within your gates, and they shall eat and be satisfied, so that YHWH your Elohim may bless you in all the work of your hand that you do.

• Deuteronomy 26:12

  When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, and have given it to the Levite, to the resident alien, to the orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be satisfied,

• Deuteronomy 31:20

  For I will bring them into the land that I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they will eat and be satisfied and grow fat, and they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.

• Ruth 2:14

  At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come over here and eat some of the bread and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he handed her roasted grain; she ate, was satisfied, and had some left over.

• 1 Chronicles 23:1

  When David was old and satisfied with days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 24:15

  Jehoiada grew old and was satisfied with days, and he died; he was a hundred and thirty years old when he died.

• 2 Chronicles 31:10

  Azariah the head priest of the house of Zadok spoke to him and said, “Since they began to bring the contribution into the house of YHWH, we have eaten and been satisfied and much has been left over, for YHWH has blessed his people; and what is left is this abundance.”

• Nehemiah 9:25

  And they captured fortified cities and fertile ground, and they possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug, vineyards and olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance; and they ate and were satisfied and grew fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

• Job 7:4

  When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the evening stretches on, and I am sated with tossing until twilight.

• Job 9:18

  He does not allow me to get back my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

• Job 19:22

  Why do you pursue me like El, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

• Job 27:14

  if his sons multiply, it is for the sword; and his offshoots will not be satisfied with bread.

• Job 31:31

  if the men of my tent did not say, ‘Who can find one not filled with his meat?’

• Job 38:27

  to satisfy the desolation and ruin, and to make sprout the shoots of grass?

• Psalms 17:14

  from men, by your hand, YHWH, from men of the world, whose share is in life; and with what you have stored up you fill their belly; the sons are satisfied and leave their remainder to their little ones.

• Psalms 17:15

  As for me, in righteousness I will see your face; I will be satisfied, when I awake, with your form.

• Psalms 22:26

  The humble will eat and be satisfied; those who seek him will praise YHWH. May your heart live forever.

• Psalms 37:19

  They will not be ashamed in the time of evil, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

• Psalms 59:15

  They wander about to eat; if they are not satisfied, they spend the night.

• Psalms 63:5

  As with fat and richness my soul will be satisfied, and with lips of joyful shouts my mouth will praise you,

• Psalms 65:4

  Happy is the one you choose and bring near; he will dwell in your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple.

• Psalms 78:29

  And they ate and were filled greatly, and what they craved he brought them.

• Psalms 81:16

  And he would feed him with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.

• Psalms 88:3

  For my soul is sated with troubles, and my life has reached Sheol.

• Psalms 90:14

  Satisfy us in the morning with your loyal love, and we will shout for joy and rejoice all our days.

• Psalms 91:16

  With length of days I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation.”

• Psalms 103:5

  who satisfies with good your ornament, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

• Psalms 104:13

  He waters the mountains from his upper rooms; with the fruit of your works the earth is satisfied.

• Psalms 104:16

  The trees of YHWH are satisfied, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted,

• Psalms 104:28

  You give to them, they gather it up; you open your hand, they are satisfied with good.

• Psalms 105:40

  They asked, and he brought quail, and with bread of heaven he satisfied them.

• Psalms 107:9

  For he has satisfied the longing soul, and the hungry soul he has filled with good.

• Psalms 123:3

  Show us favor, YHWH, show us favor, for we are greatly sated with contempt.

And 57 more times.