שָׂבַעsâbaʻ
be sated, satisfied, surfeited
Pronunciation: saw-bah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7646
Meanings
Qal
1. be sated, (with food)
a. graze (Hosea 4:10; Isaiah 9:19; Deuteronomy 8:10)
2. more generally, be sated, have desire satisfied
b. be satisfied with, have one's fill of (Jeremiah 31:14; Psalms 17:15; Psalms 63:6)
3. have in excess, be surfeited with
b be weary of (Isaiah 1:11; Job 7:4; Proverbs 28:19)
Niph`al: sated (Job 31:31)
Pi`el: satisfy (Ezekiel 7:19; Psalms 90:14; Habakkuk 3:9)
Hiph`il
1.
a. satisfy (Jeremiah 5:7; Isaiah 58:11; Psalms 107:9)
2. enrich (Ezekiel 27:33)
3. sate, glut (Lamentations 3:15; Job 9:18)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 97 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 16:8 Then Moses added, “The Lord will give you meat to eat in the evening and bread to satisfy you in the morning, for he has heard all your complaints against him. What have we done? Yes, your complaints are against the Lord, not against us.”
- Exodus 16:12 “I have heard the Israelites’ complaints. Now tell them, ‘In the evening you will have meat to eat, and in the morning you will have all the bread you want. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’”
- Leviticus 26:26 I will destroy your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake bread for their families. They will ration your food by weight, and though you have food to eat, you will not be satisfied.
- Deuteronomy 6:11 The houses will be richly stocked with goods you did not produce. You will draw water from cisterns you did not dig, and you will eat from vineyards and olive trees you did not plant. When you have eaten your fill in this land,
- Deuteronomy 8:10 When you have eaten your fill, be sure to praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.
- Deuteronomy 8:12 For when you have become full and prosperous and have built fine homes to live in,
See every passage
- Exodus 16:8, 16:12
- Leviticus 26:26
- Deuteronomy 6:11, 8:10, 8:12, 11:15, 14:29, 26:12, 31:20
- Ruth 2:14
- 1 Chronicles 23:1
- 2 Chronicles 24:15, 31:10
- Nehemiah 9:25
- Job 7:4, 9:18, 19:22, 27:14, 31:31, 38:27
- Psalms 17:14, 17:15, 22:26, 37:19, 59:15, 63:5, 65:4, 78:29, 81:16, 88:3, 90:14, 91:16, 103:5, 104:13, 104:16, 104:28, 105:40, 107:9, 123:3, 123:4, 132:15, 145:16, 147:14
- Proverbs 1:31, 5:10, 12:11, 12:14, 14:14, 18:20, 20:13, 25:16, 25:17, 27:20, 28:19, 30:9, 30:15, 30:16, 30:22
- Ecclesiastes 1:8, 4:8, 5:10, 6:3
- Isaiah 1:11, 9:20, 44:16, 53:11, 58:10, 58:11, 66:11
- Jeremiah 5:7, 31:14, 44:17, 46:10, 50:10, 50:19
- Lamentations 3:15, 3:30, 5:6
- Ezekiel 7:19, 16:28, 16:29, 27:33, 32:4, 39:20
- Hosea 4:10, 13:6
- Joel 2:19, 2:26
- Amos 4:8
- Micah 6:14
- Habakkuk 2:5, 2:16
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).