sva · fullness, satisfying

What it means

sva (שׇׂבְעָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fullness, satisfying”.

Satisfaction, enough to eat: eating until one is full.

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. Eating until one wants no more.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• satisfaction ×3
• satisfied ×1
• satisfy ×1
• until you are full ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Isaiah×3
• Ezekiel×2
• Haggai×1

• Isaiah 23:18

  And her profit and her wages will be holy to YHWH; it will not be stored up nor hoarded; for for those who dwell before YHWH her profit will be for eating to satisfaction and for splendid clothing.

• Isaiah 55:2

  Why do you weigh out silver for what is not bread, and the fruit of your labor for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight itself in fatness.

• Isaiah 56:11

  And the dogs are strong of appetite, they do not know satisfaction; and they are shepherds who do not know how to understand; all of them have turned to their own way, each to his gain, without exception.

• Ezekiel 16:28

  And you prostituted yourself with the sons of Assyria, because you were never satisfied; you prostituted yourself with them, and still you were not satisfied.

• Ezekiel 39:19

  And you will eat fat until you are full, and drink blood until you are drunk, from my sacrifice that I have sacrificed for you.

• Haggai 1:6

  You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, and there is no satisfaction; you drink, and there is no drunkenness; you clothe yourselves, and there is no warmth for anyone; and the one who earns wages earns wages for a bag with holes.