سَبْعَةٌ
1.
2.
أَخَذَهُ أَخْذَ سَبْعَةٍ: see سَبُعَةٌ.
3.
وَزْنَ سَبْعَةٍ means Of the weight of seven
مَثَاقِيل: (S, K:) one says, أَخَذْتُ مِنْهُ مِايءَةَ 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.]
4.
إِحْدَى 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.)
5.
السَّبْعُ
المَثَانِى
The Fátihah; [or first chapter of the Qur'an;] 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.]
6.
El-Farezdak says,
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.)وَكَيْفَ أَخَافُ النَّاسَ وَاللّٰهُ قَابِضٌعَلَى النَّاسِ وَالسَّبْعَيْنِ فِى رَاحَةِ اليَدِ
7.
See also أُسْبُوعٌ; last sentence.
8.
[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.
9.
Respecting a peculiar pronunciation of the people of El-Hijáz, and a case in which سَبْعَة is imperfectly decl., see ثَلَاثَةٌ. See also سِتَّةٌ.]
10.
سَبْعَةَ
عَشَرَ [indecl. in every case, meaning Seventeen,] is pronounced by some of the Arabs سَبْعَةَ عْشَرَ: and [the feminine] سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ, thus in the dialect of El- Hijáz [and of most of the Arabs], is pronounced سَبْعَ عَشِرَةَ in the dialect of Nejd. (S in article عشر.)
11.
See also سَبُعَةٌ, in two places.