שִׁבְעִים
shiv.im
seventy
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# שִׁבְעִים (Shiv'im) — Seventy The Hebrew word *shiv'im* carries the straightforward numerical meaning of "seventy," appearing 91 times throughout the biblical text. This frequency of occurrence indicates that the number held practical importance in ancient Israelite life and literature, appearing regularly enough to warrant consistent documentation across different biblical books and genres. The high occurrence count (91 instances) suggests that seventy functioned as a significant number in biblical contexts—whether for literal enumeration of people, objects, or time periods, or for symbolic and traditional usage. The regularity with which this specific number appears in the scriptural record indicates it may have carried particular weight in Hebrew cultural or religious contexts, though the lexical data alone cannot specify those contextual meanings. The word's straightforward definition as a cardinal number indicates it served a basic mathematical function in the biblical language.
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Occurrences in Scripture
91 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs. All these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 36:21to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
Ezra 2:3The children of Parosh, two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
Ezra 2:4The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy-two.
Ezra 2:5The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy-five.
Ezra 2:36The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy-three.
Ezra 2:40The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
Ezra 8:7Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
Ezra 8:14Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.
Ezra 8:35The children of the captivity, who had come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve male goats for a sin offering. All this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
Nehemiah 7:8The children of Parosh: two thousand one hundred seventy-two.
Nehemiah 7:9The children of Shephatiah: three hundred seventy-two.
Nehemiah 7:39The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua: nine hundred seventy-three.
Nehemiah 7:43The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah: seventy-four.
Nehemiah 11:19Moreover the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were one hundred seventy-two.
Esther 9:16The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
Psalms 90:10The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
Isaiah 23:15It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.
Isaiah 23:15It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the prostitute.
Isaiah 23:17It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre. She will return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.
Jeremiah 25:11This whole land will be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
Jeremiah 25:12“It will happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,” says Yahweh, “for their iniquity. I will make the land of the Chaldeans desolate forever.
Jeremiah 29:10For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
Ezekiel 8:11Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up.
Ezekiel 41:12The building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.
Daniel 9:2in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
Daniel 9:24“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
Zechariah 1:12Then Yahweh’s angel replied, “O Yahweh of Armies, how long will you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had indignation these seventy years?”
Zechariah 7:5“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
Genesis 4:24If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”
Genesis 5:12Kenan lived seventy years, then became the father of Mahalalel.
Genesis 5:31All the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy-seven years, then he died.
Genesis 11:26Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 12:4So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Genesis 25:7These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
Genesis 46:27The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.
Genesis 50:3Forty days were used for him, for that is how many the days it takes to embalm. The Egyptians wept for Israel for seventy days.
Exodus 1:5All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
Exodus 15:27They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.
Exodus 24:1He said to Moses, “Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.
Exodus 24:9Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.
Exodus 38:25The silver of those who were counted of the congregation was one hundred talents and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:
Exodus 38:28From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
Exodus 38:29The bronze of the offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels.
Numbers 1:27those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
Numbers 2:4His division, and those who were counted of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
Numbers 3:43All the firstborn males according to the number of names from a month old and upward, of those who were counted of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
Numbers 3:46For the redemption of the two hundred seventy-three of the firstborn of the children of Israel who exceed the number of the Levites,
Numbers 7:13and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
Numbers 7:19He offered for his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;