שָׂבָעsâbâʻ
plenty, satiety
Pronunciation: saw-baw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7647
Meanings
1 plenty (Genesis 41:29; Genesis 41:30; Genesis 41:31)
2. satiety (Ecclesiastes 5:11)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 41:29 The next seven years will be a period of great prosperity throughout the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:30 But afterward there will be seven years of famine so great that all the prosperity will be forgotten in Egypt. Famine will destroy the land.
- Genesis 41:31 This famine will be so severe that even the memory of the good years will be erased.
- Genesis 41:34 Then Pharaoh should appoint supervisors over the land and let them collect one-fifth of all the crops during the seven good years.
- Genesis 41:47 As predicted, for seven years the land produced bumper crops.
- Genesis 41:53 At last the seven years of bumper crops throughout the land of Egypt came to an end.
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).