سبع

سَبْعَةٌ ذ , (S, K,) sometimes pronounced ↓ سَبَعَةٌ but some disallow this latter, and say that it is pl. of سَابِعٌ, (K,) [ Seven; ] a well-known number; and called one of the perfect numbers: (TA:) fem. سَبْعٌ. (S, K.) You say, سَبْعَةُ رِجَالٍ [ Seven men ]: and سَبْعُ نِسْوَةٍ [ seven women ]. (S, K.) ― -b2- أَخَذَهُ أَخْذَ سَبْعَةٍ: see سَبُعَةٌ. ― -b3- وَزْنَ سَبْعَةٍ means Of the weight of seven مَثَاقِيل: (S, K:) 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. (TA.) [But see دِرْهَمٌ.] ― -b4- اـِحْدَى مِنْ سبْعٍ [lit. One of seven; ] means (assumed tropical:) a great, momentous, or difficult, thing, or affair: (Sh, K: *) an affair difficult to decide: perhaps as being likened to one of the seven nights in which God sent the punishment upon [the tribe of] 'Ád: or, as some say, the seven years [of famine in the days] of Joseph. (Sh, TA.) ― -b5- 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. (TA.) [See also مَثْنًى.] ― -b6- El-Farezdak says, وَكَيْفَ أَخَافُ النَّاسَ وَا@للّٰهُ قَابِضٌ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَالسَّبْعَيْنِ فِى رَاحَةِ اليَدِ 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? ]. (K.) ― -b7- See also أُسْبُوعٌ; last sentence. ― -b8- [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. ― -b9- Respecting a peculiar pronunciation of the people of El-Hijáz, and a case in which سَبْعَة is imperfectly decl., see ثَلَاثَةٌ. See also سِتَّةٌ.] ― -b10- 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.) -A2- See also سَبُعَةٌ, in two places.