What is the significance of the number seven in the bible?

Question

English homework...

Actually, what is the significance of the number seven anywhere...including the bible.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Seven is used frequently in the Scriptures to signify completeness.
The Festival of Unleavened Bread and the Festival of Booths were each seven days long. (Ex 34:18; Le 23:34)

God was long-suffering with Israel but warned them that if, despite his discipline, they ignored him, he would then chastise them “seven times,” thoroughly, for their sins.—Le 26:18, 21, 28.

The Israelites exercised full faith and obedience by marching for seven days around Jericho, encompassing it seven times on the seventh day, after which the city wall collapsed. (Jos 6:2-4, 15)
Elijah showed full faith in the efficacy of his prayer to God by commanding his servant up on Mount Carmel to go looking at the sky seven times before a rain cloud appeared. (1Ki 18:42-44)
Naaman the leper had to bathe seven times in the Jordan River.
The book of Revelation abounds with symbolic use of the number seven.

Answer 2

Seven is the number of completeness or fullness and is attributed to God, or God's signature if you wish. Thus you have seven days to make a week, you have seven colors of the rainbow which white light can be split into. You also have seven main tones that make up a musical scale. This leads to number 8 always indicating new beginnings.

Good luck on your assignment.

Answer 3

Biblical numerology is the study of numbers in the Bible. Two of the most commonly repeated numbers in the Bible are 7 and 40. The number 7 signifies completion or perfection (Genesis 7:2-4; Revelation 1:20). It is often called “God’s number” since He is the only One who is perfect and complete (Revelation 4:5; 5:1, 5-6).

Answer 4

The number 7 represents complete perfection.
There are 7 lampstands, with 7 lamps, in the Book of Revelations. There are a number of examples of 7...could go on all night.
In dice, 7 is lucky. That's the number everyone tries for.
There are 7 days in a week, the number of completeness. The 7th day is the day of rest; the Sabbath day.

Answer 5

The number 7 means perfection or completeness; a number representing earth crowned with heaven. (Rev. 1:4) Throughout Scripture numbers often have symbolic as well as literal meanings. In the book of Revelation the number 7 is especially prevalent, appearing more than 50 times.

Answer 6

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, God 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 “seven congregations” of Revelation.
The “seven heads” of the “wild beast” .
In historical sections of the Scriptures, seven frequently occurs to denote completeness, or doing a work completely. The Israelites exercised full faith and obedience by marching for seven days around Jericho, encompassing it seven times on the seventh day, after which the city wall collapsed. (Jos 6:2-4, 15)

Answer 7

In the Bible, seven is kind of God's favourite number. It repesents perfection and wholeness.

Answer 8

To God a day is as a thousand years and God created all things within 6 days and on the 7th day, He rested from all His labor; Hebrews 4:4. The number 6 is a symbol for a time when God had not FINISHED His work; thus 666. I think it interesting that according to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, the three six's in 666 is number 5516 and an obsol number 4742 is "as a cross". Three crosses. That is interesting. Jesus' last words were "IT IS FINISHED". God finished the work of salvation on that cross but men think that we must "let Him" save them. Man always must have a major part in things. I think that is why God created man last. Had God made man first, man would say, look what I made.

Answer 9

The people who wrote the bible weren't very creative so they just used a lot of numbers over like 7, 12, 10, 40, 3....

Answer 10

Today is born the seventh one
Born of woman the seventh son
And he in turn of a seventh son
He has the power to heal
He has the gift of the second sight
He is the chosen one
So it shall be written
So it shall be done

7th son of a 7th son
The seventh son of a seventh son is a concept from folklore regarding special powers given to, or held by, such a son. The number seven has a long history of mystical and religious associations: seven sleepers, seven-league boots, seven ages of man, seven hills of Rome, seven lucky gods of Japanese mythology, the Seven Sages, seven sisters, seven stars, seven wonders of the world, and so on. In this case, it refers to a man who is the seventh son of a man who is himself a seventh son. Also a cool Iron Maiden song.