shivim · seventy

What it means

shivim (שִׁבְעִים) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “seventy”.

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. The number seventy.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Seventy, the number; it is the plural of שֶׁבַע, “seven” (H7651).

• The seventy persons of Jacob who came into Egypt Genesis 46:27
• The seventy elders Exodus 24:1Numbers 11:25
• “Seventy and seven” Genesis 4:24
• The seventy years of exile Jeremiah 25:11
• “Seventy weeks” Daniel 9:24

Historical and cultural background

The number appears at marked moments: the house of Jacob that came into Egypt “{were} seventy” (Genesis 46:27), Moses goes up with seventy of the elders (Exodus 24:1), Jeremiah announces that the nations “will serve the king of Babylon seventy years” (Jeremiah 25:11).

How we translate it

Always “seventy” (91 times), also inside compound numbers.

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×8
• Exodus×7
• Numbers×26
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×10
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Ezra×8
• Nehemiah×5
• Esther×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×2
• Daniel×2
• Zechariah×2

• Genesis 4:24

  If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy and seven fold.”

• Genesis 5:12

  And Kenan lived seventy years and fathered Mahalalel.

• Genesis 5:31

  And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years and he died.

• Genesis 11:26

  Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

• Genesis 12:4

  So Abram went, just as YHWH had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out from Haran.

• Genesis 25:7

  These are the days of the years of the life of Abraham which he lived: a hundred and seventy and five years.

• Genesis 46:27

  And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy.

• Genesis 50:3

  Forty days were completed for him, for so are completed the days of embalming; and the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

• Exodus 1:5

  All the persons who came out of the thigh of Jacob were seventy persons; and Joseph was in Egypt.

• Exodus 15:27

  They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; and they camped there by the water.

• Exodus 24:1

  To Moses he said, “Come up to YHWH, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and bow down from a distance.

• Exodus 24:9

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

• Exodus 38:25

  And the silver of those counted of the community was a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary:

• Exodus 38:28

  And with the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their tops and joined them with rods.

• Exodus 38:29

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

• Numbers 1:27

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

• Numbers 2:4

  and his army, those of them counted, are seventy-four thousand six hundred.

• Numbers 3:43

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

• Numbers 3:46

  And as the ransom for the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the sons of Israel who are in excess of the Levites,

• Numbers 7:13

  And his offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:19

  He presented his offering: one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:25

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:31

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:37

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:43

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:49

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:55

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:61

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:67

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:73

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:79

  His offering was one silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

• Numbers 7:85

  each silver plate weighing one hundred thirty shekels and each basin seventy; all the silver of the utensils was two thousand four hundred shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary;

• Numbers 11:16

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and their supervisors; and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

• Numbers 11:24

  So Moses went out and told the people the words of YHWH; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tent.

• Numbers 11:25

  And YHWH came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy men, the elders; and when the spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did not continue.

• Numbers 26:22

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

• Numbers 31:32

  The plunder, the rest of the booty that the people of the army had looted, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,

• Numbers 31:33

  seventy-two thousand cattle,

• Numbers 31:37

  and the tribute for YHWH from the sheep was six hundred seventy-five;

• Numbers 31:38

  and the cattle were thirty-six thousand, and their tribute for YHWH was seventy-two;

And 51 more times.