Bible word study

Sheba (Strong’s H7651): Meaning in the Bible

Sheba (שֶׁבַע) is the Hebrew word numbered H7651 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number. In the King James Bible it is translated ( by) seven(-fold), -s, (-teen, -teenth), -th.

• Original wordשֶׁבַע
• Transliterationshebaʻ
• Pronunciationsheh'-bah
• Part of speechnoun (n)
• Strong’s numberH7651
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or (masculine) (שִׁבְעָה); from H7650; a primitive cardinal number;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Sheba appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Sheba (H7651) stands behind 388 English renderings in 342 verses across 27 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Genesis (57), Leviticus (46), Numbers (46).

How the King James Bible renders Sheba, by count

• seven353 of 388 (91 percent)
• seventh13 of 388 (3 percent)
• seventeen7 of 388 (2 percent)
• times6 of 388 (2 percent)
• seventeenth5 of 388 (1 percent)
• sevens2 of 388 (1 percent)

Three places to read Sheba

• Genesis 4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
• Numbers 2:26 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
• 2 Kings 16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Sheba in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

Related words