seaven

Numeral

seven

1. A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight.
   • The cabbalism of the number seven is emphasized, for in hell seven judges at each of seven gates take one of these divine laws away from her.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175
2. Describing a group or set with seven elements.
   • 1 Now Iericho was straitly shut vp, because of the children of Israel: none went out, & none came in.
     2 And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, See, I haue giuen into thine hand Iericho, and the King thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
     3 And ye shall compasse the city, all yee men of warre, and goe round...1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 6:1–5

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