Shiv'im is the Hebrew numeral seventy, the irregular plural of sheva' (seven). It counts elders (Exod 24:1), years of exile (Jer 25:11), prophetic weeks (Dan 9:24), and descendants (Gen 46:27). Like other multiples of seven, seventy often functions as a round number implying fullness or completeness — seventy elders represent the entire leadership, and Daniel's seventy weeks span the whole arc of redemptive history. Translations are uniform: Spanish 'setenta,' French 'soixante-dix,' German 'siebzig,' each simply expressing the numeral without interpretive variation.