שֹׂבַע
sova · fullness, being satisfied
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7648 · appears 8 times in the Bible
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sova (שֹׂבַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fullness, being satisfied”.
Fullness: eating until satisfied; also abundance.
How to say it
so·va
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
- Eating until wanting no more.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- full ×4
- after she was satisfied ×1
- fill ×1
- fullness ×1
- satisfying ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 16:3
The sons of Israel said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of YHWH in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full! But you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
- Leviticus 25:19
And the land will give its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live securely on it.
- Leviticus 26:5
Your threshing will reach to the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will reach to the sowing time; and you will eat your bread to the full and live securely in your land.
- Deuteronomy 23:24
When you go into the vineyard of your neighbor, you may eat grapes as your soul desires, until you are full, but into your container you shall not put any.
- Ruth 2:18
She picked it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. Then she brought out and gave her what she had left over after she was satisfied.
- Psalms 16:11
You will make known to me the path of life; fullness of joys with your face; delights at your right hand forever.
- Psalms 78:25
The bread of the strong each one ate; provisions he sent them to the full.
- Proverbs 13:25
The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked will lack.