سَبْعِينَ seventy in Arabic
سَبْعِينَ is how you say “seventy” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَقَالَ ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ هِيَ إِلَى السَّبْعِينَ أَقْرَبُ مِنْهَا إِلَى السَّبْعِ
Ibn Abbas said: They are closer to seventy than to seven.
السَّبْعِينَ the seventy
A number-noun with 'the', 'the seventy', held in the (genitive) form by the 'to' before it. It is the higher figure the sins are said to approach.
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More example sentences
قَدْ وَافَيْتُ هَذَا الْمَوْضِعَ سَبْعِينَ مَرَّةً
I have come to this spot seventy times.
سَبْعِينَ seventy
A 'seventy' numeral that governs the noun it counts, fixing how that noun is shaped and cased. Arabic counting words push their counted noun into a particular form, here a single object-case noun standing for the plural idea.
فَأَصَابُوا مِّنَّا سَبْعِينَ،
So they struck seventy of us.
سَبْعِينَ seventy
The number 'seventy' standing as how many were struck, so it carries the object ending of the striking-verb. The tens take this special ending whether they act as object or follow a preposition.
أَرْبَعِينَ وَمِائَةً سَبْعِينَ أَسِيرًا
Two hundred and ten prisoners.
سَبْعِينَ seventy
The tens-number 'seventy' carrying the special tens ending, continuing the heaped-up count. It joins the earlier numbers to build the full figure before the counted noun.
وَسَبْعِينَ قَتِيلًا،
And seventy were killed.
وَسَبْعِينَ and seventy
A connector 'and' prefixed to the tens-number 'seventy', which carries the special tens ending; the 'and' adds this figure onto the previous count. So one word links and states the next number in the tally.
فَتَحْتُ لَكَ فِي ذَلِكَ سَبْعِينَ بَابًا مِنَ الْفَقْرِ
So I have opened for you in that seventy gates to poverty.
سبعين seventy
The number 'seventy', a round figure standing for a great many. As one of the higher tens, it leads its counted noun, and that noun follows in the singular object-style form, which is why the next word appears as a single 'gate' rather than a plural.