The Treasury of Witchcraft says of the number seven: "this number, in occult rites, possessed mystic implications . . . POWERFUL: TRIPLE REPETITION is characteristic of magic ritual."
(Treasury of Witchcraft, p.23)
Strong's #6901: qabal (pronounced kaw-bal')
a primitive root; to admit, i.e. take (literally or figuratively):–choose, (take) hold, receive, (under-)take.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
qabal
1) to take, receive, be before
1a) (Piel)
1a1) to take, choose, receive
1a2) to accept
1a3) to accept, assume
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to show oppositeness
1b2) to correspond, receive one to the other
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 13 times:
Exodus 26:5: "is in the coupling of the second; that the loops (may take hold) one of another."
Exodus 36:12: "was in the coupling of the second: the loops (held) one curtain to another."
1 Chronicles 12:18: "thy God helpeth thee. Then David (received )them, and made them captains of the band."
1 Chronicles 21:11: "unto him, Thus saith the LORD, (Choose)"
2 Chronicles 29:16: "of the house of the LORD. And the Levites (took) it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron."
2 Chronicles 29:22: "So they killed the bullocks, and the priests (received) the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar:"
Ezra 8:30: " (So took) the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring"
Esther 4:4: "and to take away his sackcloth from (him: but he received) it not."
Esther 9:23: "And the Jews (undertook) to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai"
Esther 9:27: "The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all"
Job 2:10: "of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand"
Job 2:10: "at the hand of God, and (shall we not receive) evil? In all this"
Proverbs 19:20: "Hear counsel, (and receive) instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter"