SEVEN

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Old English seofon |Indo-european septm | Sanskrit SAPTA | Greek, Attic ‘EΠTA HEPTA | Latin SEPTEM | Italian sette | French sept | Spanish siete | Catalan and Provençal set | Portuguese setes | Romanian şapte | Rumansh siat | Sardinian sète | Old Germanic SIBUM | Dutch zeven | German sieben | Danish syv | Norwegian sju | Swedish sju | Icelandic sjö | Old Slavic SEDMI | Russian семь syem’ | Czech sedm | Slovenian sedem | Polish siedem | Old Chinese ts’yet | Chinese 七 qī |Ancient Egyptian sefekh | Akkadian sebe | Arabic سبعة sab’a | Hebrew שבעה sheh-vah | Maltese sebgha | Amharic sebat.

The number seven appears commonly in religion: There are 7 days of Creation in the Old Testament and God rested on the 7th day (the Sabbath). The number seven appears frequently in the bible and elsewhere including: seven years of plenty and seven years of famine in Pharaoh’s dream, seven days in the week, seven phases of the moon, seven ages in the life of man, seven divisions in the Lord’s Prayer, seven churches of Asia, Seven Graces, Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Senses and Seven Virtues. There were also seven heavens, seven planets, seven stars, seven notes in music, seven primary colors, seven sacraments of the Catholic Church, and Seven Ancient Wonders of the World which are:

  1. Great Pyramid of Giza
  2. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  3. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
  4. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
  5. Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
  6. Colossus of Rhodes
  7. Lighthouse of Alexandria

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