can someone tell me about the number seven as in the number seven being the number of completion?

Question

i hope someone can help me with this, i need some infromation about the number seven being the number of completion in bibical terms.

Answer 1

God’s work of creation was both complete and perfect, and it was completed in seven days. All of mankind’s existence was related to God’s creative activity. The seven-day week reflected God’s first creative activity. The Sabbath was that day of rest following the workweek, reflective of God’s rest (Gen. 1:1-2:4). Israelites were to remember the land also and give it a sabbath, permitting it to lie fallow in the seventh year (Lev. 25:2-7). Seven was also important in cultic matters beyond the Sabbath: major festivals such as Passover and Tabernacles lasted seven days as did wedding festivals (Judg. 14:12,17). In Pharaoh’s dream the seven good years followed by seven years of famine (Gen. 41:1-36) represented a complete cycle of plenty and famine. Jacob worked a complete cycle of years for Rachel; then, when he was given Leah instead, he worked an additional cycle of seven (Gen. 29:15-30).

A major Hebrew word for making an oath or swearing, shaba, was closely related to the word “seven,” sheba. The original meaning of “swear an oath” may have been “to declare seven times” or “to bind oneself by seven things.”
A similar use of the number seven can be seen in the NT. The seven churches (Rev. 2-3) perhaps symbolized all the churches by their number. Jesus taught that forgiveness is not to be limited, even to a full number or complete number of instances. We are to forgive, not merely seven times (already a generous number of forgivenesses) but 70 times seven (limitless forgiveness, beyond keeping count) (Matt. 18:21-22).

As the last example shows, multiples of seven frequently had symbolic meaning. The year of Jubilee came after the completion of every 49 years. In the year of Jubilee all Jewish bondslaves were released and land which had been sold reverted to its former owner (Lev. 25:8-55). Another multiple of seven used in the Bible is 70. Seventy elders are mentioned (Exod. 24:1,9). Jesus sent out the 70 (Luke 10:1-17). Seventy years is specified as the length of the exile (Jer. 25:12, 29:10; Dan. 9: 2). The messianic kingdom was to be inaugurated after a period of 70 weeks of years had passed (Dan. 9:24).

Answer 2

The number was significant in a number of ancient societies and is an example of what is called "cross-contamination" in anthropology. The ancient Hebrews lived in close proximity with other cultures (ie the Babylonians) and believed many of the same things. The number 7 was important to the ancient cultures because to the naked eye, one could see the first 5 planets and the sun and the moon. The ancient Israelites shared that belief and took it a step further. They combined the holy number 4, which represented a perfect world, and added 3, which represented perfect divinity, and got the number 7 which represents the completeness of God. As the oral traditions began to be written down and eventually become the Old and New Testament, the number 7 would go on to represent/describe other important occurrences(or future occurrences). Even in our modern times, people have taken the number 7, from the Bible and made it significant in our general culture (a modern form of cross-contamination). That is why so many people wanted to get married on or have a birth date of 7-7-77 or 7-7-07. Dena

Answer 3

There are several ideas about the number 7 out there. I will share a couple of them.

One is that on the 7th day, God rested, and the 7th day completed the 1st week.

Another is more mathematical in nature.

The Bible teaches the three persons of the Godhead--Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

The Biblical writers also made many mentions of the "ends" or "corners" of the earth--east, west, north, south.

If you take the number three from Heaven, and the number four from earth, it adds up to seven.

If you multiply them, it come out to 12, another big number in scripture.

Answer 4

Seven is the number used is scripture extensively representing perfection or completion. It was used primarily in
the apocalyptic writings; Ezekiel, Daniel and Revelation signifying such. Apocalyptic literature was written in signs and symbols to veil the meaning
of the message from certain enemies but readily understood by the people of God.

Answer 5

Seven is used frequently in the Scriptures to signify completeness. At times it has reference to bringing a work toward completion. Or it can refer to the complete cycle of things as established or allowed by God. By completing his work toward the earth in six creative days and resting on the seventh day, Jehovah set the pattern for the whole Sabbath arrangement, from the seven-day week to the Jubilee year that followed the seven-times-seven–year cycle. The Festival of Unleavened Bread and the Festival of Booths were each seven days long. Seven appears often in connection with the Levitical rules for offerings and for cleansings.

Multiples of seven are used in a similar sense of completeness. Seventy (ten times seven) is employed prophetically in the “seventy weeks” of Daniel’s prophecy dealing with Messiah’s coming. Jerusalem and Judah lay desolate 70 years, because of disobedience to God, “until the land had paid off [completely] its sabbaths.

Seventy-seven, a repetition of seven in a number, was equivalent to saying “indefinitely” or “without limit.” Jesus counsels Christians to forgive their brothers to that extent. (Mt 18:21, 22) Since God had ruled that anyone killing Cain, the murderer, must “suffer vengeance seven times,” Lamech, who apparently killed a man in self-defense, said: “If seven times Cain is to be avenged, then Lamech seventy times and seven.”

Answer 6

In Genesis, God told Noah to take 7 pairs of "clean" animals onto the ark. The unclean animals 1 pair. Don't know if that is the answer but interesting.....

Answer 7

http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_o/bl_simmons_seven.htm

Answer 8

im sorry but i cant help u with this crap i dont even know wat that means and wat is bibical tesrms