שֹׂבַעsôbaʻ
satiety, abundance
Pronunciation: so'-bah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7648
Meanings
1. satiety (Ruth 2:18; Exodus 16:3; Leviticus 25:19)
2. satisfying abundance (Psalms 16:11)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 16:3 “If only the Lord had killed us back in Egypt,” they moaned. “There we sat around pots filled with meat and ate all the bread we wanted. But now you have brought us into this wilderness to starve us all to death.”
- Leviticus 25:19 Then the land will yield large crops, and you will eat your fill and live securely in it.
- Leviticus 26:5 Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain. You will eat your fill and live securely in your own land.
- Deuteronomy 23:24 “When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not carry any away in a basket.
- Ruth 2:18 She carried it back into town and showed it to her mother-in-law. Ruth also gave her the roasted grain that was left over from her meal.
- Psalms 16:11 You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever.
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).