سَبْعَةٌ
Root: سبع
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سَبْعَةٌ
, sometimes pronounced
سَبَعَةٌ but some disallow this latter, and say that it is pl. of سَابِعٌ, [Seven;] a well-known number; and called one of the perfect numbers: fem. سَبْعٌ. You say, سَبْعَةُ رِجَالٍ [Seven men]: and سَبْعُ نِسْوَةٍ [seven women].
2 أَخَذَهُ أَخْذَ سَبْعَةٍ: see سَبُعَةٌ.
3 وَزْنَ سَبْعَةٍ means Of the weight of seven مَثَاقِيل: one says, أَخَذْتُ مِنْهُ مِائَةَ دِرْهَمٍ وَزْنَ سَبْعَةٍ, meaning [I took, or received, from him a hundred dirhems] every ten whereof were of the weight of seven mithkáls. [But see دِرْهَمٌ.]
4 إِحْدَى مِنْ سبْعٍ [lit. One of seven;] means
5 السَّبْعُ المَثَانِى The Fátihah; [or first chapter of the Kur-án;] because it consists of seven verses: or the long chapters from البَقَرَة to الأَعْراف [a mistake for الأَنْفَال]; as in the Mufradát: or, as in the L, to التَّوْبَة, reckoning التوبة and الانفال as one chapter, for which reason they are not separated by the بَسْمَلَة. [See also مَثْنًى.]
6 El-Farezdak says,
7 See also أُسْبُوعٌ; last sentence.
8 [سَبْعَةٌ is also used in a vague manner, as meaning Seven or more; or several; or many; as Bd says, in ix. 81, and as is indicated, though not plainly declared, in the TA. See 2: and see also سَبْعُونَ.
9 Respecting a peculiar pronunciation of the people of El-Hijáz, and a case in which سَبْعَة is imperfectly decl., see ثَلَاثَةٌ. See also سِتَّةٌ.]
10 سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ [indecl. in every case, meaning Seventeen,] is pronounced by some of the Arabs سَبْعَةَ عْشَرَ: and [the fem.] سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ, thus in the dial. of El- Hijáz [and of most of the Arabs], is pronounced سَبْعَ عَشِرَةَ in the dial. of Nejd. (S in art. عشر.)
def.2 See also سَبُعَةٌ, in two places.
2 أَخَذَهُ أَخْذَ سَبْعَةٍ: see سَبُعَةٌ.
3 وَزْنَ سَبْعَةٍ means Of the weight of seven مَثَاقِيل: one says, أَخَذْتُ مِنْهُ مِائَةَ دِرْهَمٍ وَزْنَ سَبْعَةٍ, meaning [I took, or received, from him a hundred dirhems] every ten whereof were of the weight of seven mithkáls. [But see دِرْهَمٌ.]
4 إِحْدَى مِنْ سبْعٍ [lit. One of seven;] means
5 السَّبْعُ المَثَانِى The Fátihah; [or first chapter of the Kur-án;] because it consists of seven verses: or the long chapters from البَقَرَة to الأَعْراف [a mistake for الأَنْفَال]; as in the Mufradát: or, as in the L, to التَّوْبَة, reckoning التوبة and الانفال as one chapter, for which reason they are not separated by the بَسْمَلَة. [See also مَثْنًى.]
6 El-Farezdak says,
meaning [And how should I fear men when God is comprehending mankind and] the seven heavens and seven earths [in the palm of the hand?].وَكَيْفَ أَخَافُ النَّاسَ وَٱللّٰهُ قَابِضٌ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَالسَّبْعَيْنِ فِى رَاحَةِ اليَدِ
7 See also أُسْبُوعٌ; last sentence.
8 [سَبْعَةٌ is also used in a vague manner, as meaning Seven or more; or several; or many; as Bd says, in ix. 81, and as is indicated, though not plainly declared, in the TA. See 2: and see also سَبْعُونَ.
9 Respecting a peculiar pronunciation of the people of El-Hijáz, and a case in which سَبْعَة is imperfectly decl., see ثَلَاثَةٌ. See also سِتَّةٌ.]
10 سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ [indecl. in every case, meaning Seventeen,] is pronounced by some of the Arabs سَبْعَةَ عْشَرَ: and [the fem.] سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ, thus in the dial. of El- Hijáz [and of most of the Arabs], is pronounced سَبْعَ عَشِرَةَ in the dial. of Nejd. (S in art. عشر.)
def.2 See also سَبُعَةٌ, in two places.
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