שָׂבָע
sava · plenty
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7647 · appears 8 times in the Bible
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sava (שָׂבָע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “plenty”.
Having more than enough to eat.
How to say it
sa·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
- Having food to spare.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- abundance ×6
- fullness ×1
- plenty ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 41:29
Look, seven years are coming of great abundance in all the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:30
But after them seven years of famine will arise, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will consume the land.
- Genesis 41:31
The abundance will not be known in the land because of that famine afterward, for it will be very severe.
- Genesis 41:34
Let Pharaoh act, and appoint overseers over the land, and take a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.
- Genesis 41:47
In the seven years of abundance the land produced by handfuls.
- Genesis 41:53
The seven years of abundance that had been in the land of Egypt came to an end,
- Proverbs 3:10
and your barns will be filled with plenty, and your winepresses will burst with new wine.
- Ecclesiastes 5:12
Sweet is the sleep of the one who works, whether little or much he eats; but the fullness of the rich does not let him sleep.