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Lexicon :: Strong's H7651 - šeḇaʿ

Aa
שֶׁבַע
Transliteration
šeḇaʿ
Pronunciation
sheh'-bah
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2318

Strong’s Definitions

שֶׁבַע shebaʻ, sheh'-bah; or (masculine) (שִׁבְעָה shibʻâh); from H7650; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number:—(+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare H7658.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 394x

The KJV translates Strong's H7651 in the following manner: seven (355x), seventh (13x), seventeen (with H6240) (8x), seven times (6x), seventeenth (with H6240) (6x), seventeenth (5x), sevens (with H7657) (2x), seven men (1x), sevenfold (1x), seventeen (with H6235) (1x), seventeen (with H7657) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 394x
The KJV translates Strong's H7651 in the following manner: seven (355x), seventh (13x), seventeen (with H6240) (8x), seven times (6x), seventeenth (with H6240) (6x), seventeenth (5x), sevens (with H7657) (2x), seven men (1x), sevenfold (1x), seventeen (with H6235) (1x), seventeen (with H7657) (1x).

  1. seven (cardinal number)

    1. as ordinal number

    2. in combination - 17, 700 etc

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֶׁבַע shebaʻ, sheh'-bah; or (masculine) (שִׁבְעָה shibʻâh); from H7650; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number:—(+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare H7658.
STRONGS H7651: Abbreviations
I. שֶׁבַע, שִׁבְעָה 394 noun masculine and feminine seven (Late Hebrew id., MI16 שבעת Assyrian sibi, sibittu (DlGr. § 65, 6; s = שׁ), Arabic bdb098709, bdb098710, Sabean סבע HomChr 47, 124, Ethiopic bdb098711bdb098712Phoenician (Punic) שבע Nabataean שבע שבעה, Palmyrene שבעא שבעה; Aramaic שְׁבַע, שִׁבְעָא, bdb098713, bdb098714; on etymology compare LagBN 37 f.); — masculine (with noun feminine) absolute שֶׁבַע Genesis 41:2 + 115 times; construct שְׁבַע Genesis 5:26 + 47 times, especially P (15 times) and Chronicles (20 times), וּשֲׁבַע 1 Kings 14:21 feminine (with noun masculine) absolute שִׁבְעָה Genesis 4:24 + 100 times; constructשִׁבְעַת Genesis 7:10 + 120 times; suffix שְׁבַעְתָּם 2 Samuel 21:9 Qr (so Vrss and modern; see Dr; > Kt שִׁבְעָתַיִם; — seven:
1. without other number:
a. שֶׁבַע, before feminine plural noun Genesis 21:28 (J), Judges 16:13; Isaiah 4:1 + 80 times, especially שָׁנִים שׁ׳ Genesis 29:18 (E) + 32 times (but read שׁלוֺשׁ for שֶׁבַע 2 Samuel 24:13a, compare 2 Samuel 24:13b, 2 Samuel 24:13c, also Greek Version of the LXX and || 1 Chronicles 21:12; so Th We Dr Bu HPS Now), פְּעָמִים שׁ׳ Genesis 33:3 (J), Leviticus 4:6 (P) + 17 times; בָּאַמָּה רָחְבָּהּ שׁ׳ 1 Kings 6:6; after noun Ezekiel 40:20, 26; noun omitted Job 5:19; Proverbs 6:16, + (= מְּעָמִים שׁ׳) Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28 (H), Psalm 119:64; Proverbs 24:16.
b. שִׁבְעָה before masculine plural noun Numbers 23:1 (3 times in verse) (E) + 40 times + [H7658 Job 42:13 (read שׁ׳ for שִׁבְעָ֫נָה Ges§ 97c and most)]; + (distributive) וְשׁ׳ שׁ׳ Zechariah 4:2; after noun Genesis 7:4 (J), Exodus 25:37 (P) + 12 times (P Chronicles Daniel Proverbs); noun omitted 1 Samuel 2:5 + 9 times, including שׁ׳ as ordinal, see below; but read שְׂבָכָה for שִׁבְעָה 1 Kings 7:17 (twice in verse) Greek Version of the LXX Th Kmp Klo Benz Kit Bur; also שׁ׳ שׁ׳ distributive = 7 each Genesis 7:2, 3(J); as predicate Genesis 46:25 (P),
c. שִׁבְעַת, before plural noun Numbers 23:4 (E), Numbers 8:2 (P), Ezekiel 45:23 (twice in verse); Job 2:13 (twice in verse) + 97 times, incl יָמִים שׁ׳ Genesis 8:10 (J), + 88 times + Ezekiel 45:21 (read שִׁבְעַת for שְׁבֻעוֺת Vrss and modern),
d. = ordinal, שְׁנַת (הַ)שֶּׁבַע Deuteronomy 15:2; 2 Kings 12:2 + 3 times, בְּשִׁבְעָה לַחֹדֶשׁ Ezekiel 30:20, compare Ezekiel 45:20; לְשִׁבְעַת הַיָּמִים Genesis 7:10 (J), 1 Chronicles 9:25.
2.
†a. שְׁבַע עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה 17 years Genesis 37:2 + 3 times + 1 Kings 14:21, also as ordinal עֶשׂ׳ בִּשְׁנַת שׁ׳ 1 Kings 22:52, שָׁנָה עֶשׂ׳ בִּשְׁנַת שׁ׳ 2 Kings 16:1.
†b. שִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר (that is הַגּוֺרָל lot) 1 Chronicles 24:15; 1 Chronicles 25:24 (compare also, + other number, 1 Chronicles 7:11; Ezra 2:30; Nehemiah 7:42), + יוֺם 17th day Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:4; unusual is שְׁקָלִים וַעֲשָׂרָה הַכֶּסֶף שׁ׳ Jeremiah 32:9 7shekels and 10 the silver
3. שְׁבַע מֵאוֺת = 700 Judges 8:26 + 39 times (but Nehemiah 7:68 omitted by Masora Baer Gi which see).
4. שִׁבְעָה אֶלֶף = 7000 1 Kings 20:30 + 2 times; שִׁבְעַת אֲלָפִים = id. 1 Kings 20:15 + 15 times; 57,000 is 7x 50x 1000 Numbers 1:31; Numbers 2:8, 31.
5. שׁ׳ + other number:
a. שׁ׳ follows + 18 times:
(1) singular noun after שׁ׳ Judges 8:14; also (= ordinal number) Ezekiel 29:17 + 2 times, שְׁנַת שָׁנָה שְׁלשִׁים וָשׁ׳ 2 Kings 13:10, compare 2 Kings 15:1;
(2) plural noun before other number Ezra 8:35; Nehemiah 7:72;
(3) singular noun construct precedes בִּשְׁנַת עֶשְׂרִים וָשׁ׳ 1 Kings 16:10, 15 (ordinal);
(4) noun after each number Genesis 23:1; Genesis 25:17 (both P), etc.
b. שׁ׳ precedes + 10 times (P and Esther):
(1) noun singular after other number Genesis 8:14; Exodus 6:16, 20 + 3 times Esther;
(2) noun repeated Genesis 5:7; Genesis 11:21; Genesis 47:28, compare Genesis 5:25, 31.
c. 1000+17 Ezra 2:39 = Nehemiah 7:42 — שׁ׳ often with sacred significance: Genesis 21:28ff. (J), Exodus 37:23; Leviticus 4:6, 17; Leviticus 8:11; Leviticus 14:27 + (P); as round number Genesis 4:24 (song in J), Genesis 29:18ff; Genesis 31:23; Genesis 41:2ff (all E), etc.; on bowing + 7 times Genesis 33:3 (J; in great humility), compare WklTelAm. nos. 143, 230, 246 NeMar, 11 f.; all these probably originating with week of seven days; compare especially KöHast. DB NUMBER, 562 f., 565.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H7655.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:24; 4:24; 5:7; 5:25; 5:26; 5:31; 7:2; 7:3; 7:4; 7:10; 7:10; 7:11; 8:4; 8:10; 8:14; 11:21; 21:28; 21:28; 23:1; 25:17; 29:18; 29:18; 31:23; 33:3; 33:3; 37:2; 41:2; 41:2; 46:25; 47:28

Exodus

6:16; 6:20; 25:37; 37:23

Leviticus

4:6; 4:6; 4:17; 8:11; 14:27; 26:18; 26:21; 26:24; 26:28

Numbers

1:31; 2:8; 2:31; 8:2; 23:1; 23:4

Deuteronomy

15:2

Judges

8:14; 8:26; 16:13

1 Samuel

2:5

2 Samuel

21:9; 24:13; 24:13; 24:13

1 Kings

6:6; 7:17; 14:21; 14:21; 16:10; 16:15; 20:15; 20:30; 22:52

2 Kings

12:2; 13:10; 15:1; 16:1

1 Chronicles

7:11; 9:25; 21:12; 24:15; 25:24

Ezra

2:30; 2:39; 8:35

Nehemiah

7:42; 7:42; 7:68; 7:72

Job

2:13; 5:19

Psalms

119:64

Proverbs

6:16; 24:16

Isaiah

4:1

Jeremiah

32:9

Ezekiel

29:17; 30:20; 40:20; 40:26; 45:20; 45:21; 45:23

Zechariah

4:2

H7651

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Strong's Number H7651 matches the Hebrew שֶׁבַע (šeḇaʿ),
which occurs 394 times in 344 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 7 (Gen 4:24–Gen 46:25)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:24 -

If Cain is avenged sevenfold,

Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:7 - Then Seth lived 807 H7651 years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:25 -

And Methuselah lived 187 years and became the father of Lamech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:26 - Then Methuselah lived 782 H7651 years after he became the father of Lamech, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:31 - So all the days of Lamech were 777 H7651 years, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - “You shall take [fn]with you of every clean animal [fn]by sevens H7651, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean, two, a male and his female;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:3 - also of the birds of the [fn]sky, [fn]by sevens H7651, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:4 - “For after seven H7651 more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:10 - Now it happened after the seven H7651 days, that the water of the flood [fn]came upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:11 - In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth H7651 day of the month, on this day all the fountains of the great deep split open, and the [fn]floodgates of the sky were opened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:4 - In the seventh month, on the seventeenth H7651 day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:10 - Then he waited yet another seven H7651 days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:12 - Then he waited yet another seven H7651 days and sent out the dove; but it did not return to him again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:14 - In the second month, on the twenty-seventh H7651 day of the month, the earth was dry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:21 - and Reu lived 207 H7651 years after he became the father of Serug, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:28 - Then Abraham set seven H7651 ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven H7651 ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30 - He said, “You shall take these seven H7651 ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:1 -

And [fn]Sarah lived 127 H7651 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:17 - These are the years of the life of Ishmael, 137 H7651 years; and he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Now Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven H7651 years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - So Jacob served seven H7651 years for Rachel, and they were in his sight but a few days because of his love for her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:27 - “Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me for another seven H7651 years.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:30 - So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and indeed he loved Rachel more than Leah, and he served with [fn]Laban for another seven H7651 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:23 - so he took his [fn]relatives with him and pursued him a distance of seven H7651 days’ journey, and he overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:3 - But he himself passed on ahead of them and bowed down to the ground seven H7651 times, until he came near to his brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob.

Joseph, when seventeen H7651 years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back an evil report about them to their father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:2 - And behold, from the Nile there came up seven H7651 cows, sleek and [fn]fat; and they grazed in the reeds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:3 - Then behold, seven H7651 other cows came up after them from the Nile, [fn]ugly and [fn]thin, and they stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:4 - And the ugly and [fn]thin cows ate up the seven H7651 sleek and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5 - He again fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven H7651 ears of grain came up on a single stalk, plump and good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:6 - And behold, seven H7651 ears, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7 - And the thin ears swallowed up the seven H7651 plump and full ears. Then Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:18 - and behold, seven H7651 cows, [fn]fat and sleek came up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:19 - “And behold, seven H7651 other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and lean, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt, in regard to [fn]ugliness;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:20 - and the lean and ugly cows ate up the first seven H7651 fat cows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22 - “Then I saw also in my dream, and behold, seven H7651 ears, full and good, came up on a single stalk;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:23 - and behold, seven H7651 ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:24 - and the thin ears swallowed the seven H7651 good ears. So I told it to the [fn]magicians, but there was no one who could declare it to me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:26 - “The seven H7651 good cows are seven H7651 years; and the seven H7651 good ears are seven H7651 years; the [fn]dreams are one and the same.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:27 - “And the seven H7651 lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven H7651 years, and the seven H7651 lean ears scorched by the east wind will be seven H7651 years of famine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:29 - “Behold, seven H7651 years of great abundance are coming in all the land of Egypt;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:30 - and after them seven H7651 years of famine will arise, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will [fn]ravage the land,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:34 - “Let Pharaoh take action and appoint overseers over the land, and let him exact a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven H7651 years of abundance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:36 - “And let the food be appointed for the land for the seven H7651 years of famine which will happen in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not be cut off during the famine.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:47

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:47 - And during the seven H7651 years of plenty the land brought forth [fn]abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 - So he gathered all the food of these seven H7651 years which happened in the land of Egypt and placed the food in the cities; he placed in every city the food from its own surrounding fields.

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Then the seven H7651 years of plenty which had been in the land of Egypt came to an end,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - and the seven H7651 years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. So there was famine in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

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These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; there were seven H7651 persons in all.


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