اسبع

, said of a party of men, It became seven: (S, K:) also, it became seventy. (M and L in article ثلث.)

Said of a man, it signifies He was, or became, one whose camels came to the water on the seventh day [counting the day of the next preceding watering as the first]. (S, K.)

اسبع لِامْرَأَتِهِ: see 2.

أَسْبَعَتْ She brought forth her seventh offspring. (TA in article بكر.)

اسبعهُ: see 2, first signification.

-A2- It (a road) abounded with سِبَاع [or animals of prey]. (TA.)

اسبع الرُّعْيَانُ The pastors had their beasts fallen upon by the سَبُع [or animal of prey]. (Yaakoob, S, K.)

-A3- اسبعهُ i. q. أَطْعَمَهُ السَّبُعَ [which may be rendered He gave him as food the animal of prey, or he gave him as food to the animal of prey; but it seems from what here follows that the former is meant]: (S, K:) in the “ Mufradát, ” [he gave him as food] the flesh of the سَبُع. (TA.)

-A4- He gave him, or delivered him, (namely, his son,) to the ظُوءُورَة [which means both nurse and nurses]. (S, K.)

He left him to himself; or left him without work, or occupation; namely, his slave; synonym أَهْمَلَهُ. (S, K.) [See مُسْبَعٌ.]