1. plenty, abundance, fullness — The masculine noun saba designating a state of plenty, abundance, or satiety -- the condition of having more than enough, particularly of food and material provision. This term appears predominantly in the Joseph narrative describing Egypt's seven years of plenty (Gen 41:29-34, 41:47, 41:53) and in wisdom literature about the satiety of the rich (Eccl 5:12) and the fullness of the righteous (Prov 3:10). All three sense clusters convey the same core meaning of abundance/fullness in different syntactic environments: with article or standalone (6x), with conjunctive waw (1x), and bare noun (1x). Multilingual evidence is uniform: Spanish 'abundancia/saciedad,' Arabic 'al-shiba/shiban,' Hindi 'bahutayat/tripti,' Korean 'pungyo/baebuleum/pungseongham,' Swahili 'wingi/kushiba/zitajaa tele.' No semantic distinction exists between the clusters. 8×
AR["الْ-شِّبَعُ","الْ-شِّبَعِ","شِبَعًا","شِبَعٌ","لِصَاحِبِهِ"]·ben["কিন্তু-তৃপ্তি","পরিতৃপ্তিতে","প্রাচুর্য","প্রাচুর্যের"]·DE["[והשבע]","der-Überfluss","schwor","Überfluss","Überflusses"]·EN["and-the-fullness","plenty","the-plenty","with-plenty"]·FR["et-והשבע","le-plenty","plenty","שבע"]·heb["ה-שבע","ו-ה-שבע","שבע","שובע"]·HI["और-तृप्ति","तृप्ति-से","बहुतायत","बहुतायत-के"]·ID["kelimpahan","kelimpahan-itu","tetapi-kekenyangan"]·IT["con-plenty","e-il-e-il-fullness","il-plenty","plenty"]·jav["kaluberan","kaluberan-punika","kanthi-kawaregan","lan-wareg"]·KO["그-풍요가","그-풍요의","그리고-배부름","풍성함-으로","풍요가"]·PT["a-fartura","de-fartura","e-a-saciedade","fartura"]·RU["а-сытость","изобилие","изобилием,","изобилия"]·ES["abundancia","de-abundancia","la-abundancia","y-la-saciedad"]·SW["lakini-kushiba-kwa","wingi","zitajaa-tele"]·TR["-bolluk","-bolluğun","bolluk","bollukla","ve-tokluk"]·urd["اور-پیٹ-بھرا","فراوانی","فراوانی-سے","فراوانی-وہ","فراوانی-کے"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† שָׂבָע n.m. Gn 41:29 plenty, satiety;—only abs. שׂ׳;— 1. plenty, of bread-stuffs Gn 41:29, 30, 31, 34, 47, 53 (E), Pr 3:10. 2. satiety, Ec 5:11.