שבעא

Aramaic

Aramaic cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : שבעא (šaḇʿā)
    Ordinal : שביעאה (šəbhiʿaʾa)

Numeral

שַׁבְעָא • (šaḇʿā) m (feminine שְׁבַע (šəḇaʿ))

  1. seven (7)
    • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud. Shabbat, 74a-b:
      שָׁאנֵי תּוּרְמוֹסָא דְּשָׁלְקִי לֵיהּ שַׁבְעָא זִימְנֵי, וְאִי לָא שָׁקְלִי לֵיהּ מַסְרַח
      šånēi turmoså də-šålqi lēh šabhʿā zimnēi, wə-i lå šåqli lēh masraḥ
      Lupines are different because they are boiled seven times, and if they are not boiled they rot.

Descendants

  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܲܒ݂ܥܵܐ (šaḇˁā)

References

  • “šbˁ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Jastrow, Marcus (1903), “שְׁבַע”, in A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎[1], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons
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