Seventy Times Seven

 The words seventy times seven in Hebrew is ‘ shibim שבעים u shaba ושבע ‘ and the word ‘Shaba שבע H7650’ also means ‘swear or oath’

It can be rendered as ‘oaths and oath’ and is an intertwined Shemitah (7 x 7 ) rendered as 70 x 7 which depict a period pointing to a captivity and the release from the captivity. 

Yahuah in His wisdom wove the creation to be subject to cycles of Shemitah to be released in the Yobel/Jubilee when all captives return to their homes, lands return to their respective owners, a double Shabbath is observed in the 49th and 50th year.

Yahuah promises in Lev 25: 20-22

20 “And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’

21 I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.

22 When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.”

Hence, in a 50 year jubilee, the 48th year corresponding to the Shemitah cycle after 42 years ie. 6th year ( verse 21) Yahuah says that He would command His blessing so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. And, when you shall sow in the eight year (verse 22) ie. The 51st year which is year 1 of  a new cycle after the entire Shemitah  , you shall eat some of the old crop until the 9th year ie. The 52nd  year or 2nd year of the new Shemitah cycle when the fruits of the 8th year start to show up. In Leviticus 25:22, the phrase “eighth year” is not referring to the Jubilee year (Year 50) itself, but to the eighth year after the last Sabbath year in the regular 7-year cycle, coz if the eighth year is the 50th year which is a jubilee, how can one sow in that year as the text says? The 49th and 50th year falls in the purview of the 7th year rests.

Even though Year 50 is the Jubilee, it is not counted as the “8th year” after the Sabbath year ending at 42 ( 6 x 7) — the count resumes after Jubilee.

Yahuah bound Himself with an oath of oaths to deliver His people from being captive to the Shemitah of the land because YasharEL missed observing 70 Shemitah’s of the land causing a 70 years captivity 70 x 7 =490 cycles of actual Shemitah disobedience and thus Daniel was given the 70 weeks prophecy 

Gen 4:23  And Lemeḵ said to his wives, “Aḏah and Tsillah, hear my voice! Wives of Lemeḵ, listen to my words! For I have killed a man for wounding me, even a young man for hurting me.

Gen 4:24  “For Qayin is avenged sevenfold/שבעתים , and Lemeḵ seventy-sevenfold.” (שנעים ושבע ).

70 times 7:

Gen 4:14  “See, You have driven me from the face of the ground today, and I am hidden/sathar סתר H5641 from Your face. I shall be a fugitive/ nua ניע H5128 and a wanderer on the earth, and it shall be that anyone who finds me kills me.”

Gen 4:15  And יהוה said to him, “Well, if anyone kills Qayin, vengeance is taken on him sevenfold/.שׁבעתים shibathyam H7659 ” And יהוה set up a sign/auth אות H226 for Qayin, lest anyone finding him strikes him.

We need to understand why Yahuah placed a sign /auth אות H226 on Qayin? 

From Qayin’s own words we understand that Yahuah drove Him away from His face and now he would be as a fugitive/nua נוע H5128 (as one on a flight or moving away or dispersed) for he would be concealed/sathar סתר H5641 or hid or absent from the face of Yahuah, and those finding/matsa מצא H4672 (from Motsa מוצא H4161 which means what uncleanliness comes forth from a man), would now know that he is now absent from Yahuah and cannot participate in the annual minchah offering. That’s why Yahudah or Jude calls his way as ‘The way of Qayin’ Jude 1:11. Qayin would now be as one of the fallen ones and his dispersed brothers would now know the uncleanliness manifested through him and a banishment from the face of Yahuah as he wouldn’t go up to the place of the Summit (where the mikphad altar was) to sacrifice henceforth. 

That’s why Yahuah placed a sign marker on him, lest anyone finding (his banishment) him should kill him. This was a permission granted to him to allow him in the fallen state of his heart to stand as a representative of a fleshly way which doesn’t have a signatory slaughter offering as Hebel whom he killed had, and he himself had before he killed his brother. True repentance after his minchah being looked away or not gazed at by Yahuah would have given him an opportunity to do it the right way the second time. But because his works were evil, he killed his brother Hebel. Hence, the sign marker placed on him allowed him to continue in his unclean path he chose for himself and be hid or concealed that those finding his path to be abominable should not kill him or vengeance would be taken on him sevenfold/ shibathyam שבעתים or x 7 times and number 7 is associated with Shemitah oaths.

There were two Lemech’s, one from Qayin’s lineage and another from Seth’s lineage who was the father of Noah.

The one who said if Qayin is avenged sevenfold Lamech will be avenged seventy sevenfold was from Qayin’s lineage mentioned Genesis 4:17–24

Gen 4:17  And Qayin knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Ḥanoḵ. And he built a city, and called the name of the city after the name of his son, Ḥanoḵ.

Gen 4:18  And to Ḥanoḵ was born Iraḏ. And Iraḏ brought forth Meḥuya’ěl, and Meḥuya’ěl brought forth Methusa’ěl, and Methusa’ěl brought forth Lemeḵ.

Gen 4:19  And Lemeḵ took for himself two wives, the name of one was Aḏah, and the name of the second was Tsillah.

He was the first recorded polygamist (having two wives ), his two wives names were Adah and Tsillah.

He killed two men a) a man for wounding him and b) a young man for hurting him.

Lamech, Son of Methushael of Qayin lineage Found in: Genesis 4:17–24

Adam → Cain → Enoch → Irad → Mehujael → Methushael → Lamech

The other Lamech, Son of Methuselah Genesis 5:25–31 from Seth lineage

Adam → Seth → Enosh → Kenan → Mahalalel → Jared → Enoch → Methuselah → Lamech

This Lamech was father of Noah who lived for 777 years.

Gen 5:31  So all the days of Lemeḵ were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died. 

777 is clearly a triple repetition of the sacred number 7, often associated in Scripture with completion, divine order, or fullness.

The Lamech from Qayin’s lineage age of death is not recorded but his solidarity to the false worship system of way of Qayin and  being part of the fallen ones being absent from Yahuah and in an unclean state being a double murderer boasts in a seventy/שבעתים H7657 seven/shibah שבע H7651 vengeance if found out and killed. 

Torah later made provision of cities of refuge where the one who killed anyone by not lying in wait (unintentionally ) could flee to if he killed someone. We know Qayin was a murderer and killed his brother Hebel intentionally. Hence, if Lemech from Qayin’s lineage affirms that if Qayin would be avenged sevenfold, Lamech would be avenged seventy times seven or seventy sevenfold, he was identifying himself in the Way of Qayin. 

The seventy times seven shows 

70 × 7 = 490

Here, 490 symbolizes escalated vengeance, showing how far violence and sin had progressed from Qayin.

Daniel 9:24 – Seventy Weeks Prophecy (490 Years)

Dan 9:24  “Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and for your set-apart city, to put an end to the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover crookedness, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Set-apart. 

70 weeks × 7 days = 490 days → Symbolically understood as 490 years

Here, 490 represents Elohim’s  redemptive timeline to:

• Finish transgression

• Make an end of sins

• Bring in everlasting righteousness

• Seal up vision and prophecy

• Anoint the Most Holy

So where Lamech used 490 to symbolize unlimited vengeance, Elohim uses 490 in Daniel to symbolize the full measure of judgment, mercy, atonement, and restoration.

Mat 18:21  Then Kěpha came to Him and said, “Master, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”

Mat 18:22  יהושע said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. (שבעתים ושבע)

Yahusha reverses Lamech’s number of vengeance into a number of forgiveness, drawing on the Daniel 9 context. He signals that Elohim waited patiently for 490 years to deal with sin and bring salvation to His people in humility when He Himself began by taking the judgments and the oaths of the people on Himself.

Lamech from Seth’s lineage was the one Elohim showed mercy and recorded in his age 

Right after Lamech (777) dies, Noah is 595 years old, and the Flood comes when Noah is 600 (Genesis 7:6) which is 5 years after Lemech’s death. Number 5 shows the transition of the Torah of life crossing over the flood (denoting wrath) through Noah which means ‘Rest’

Gen 5:28  And Lemeḵ lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and brought forth a son,

Gen 5:29  and called his name Noaḥ, saying, “This one does comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which יהוה has cursed.”

Lemech למך H3929 means ‘powerful’

Noah נח H5146 means ‘rest’ 

This genealogy is in Genesis 5 and leads to Noah.

Here’s the line:

1. Adam

2. Seth

3. Enosh

4. Kenan

5. Mahalalel

6. Jared

7. Enoch (the righteous one who walked with Elohim and mentioned as 7th from Adam as a marker of a righteous seed -Jude 1:14).

8. Methuselah

9. Lamech

10. Noah

So, in Seth’s lineage Lamech is the 9th from Adam, and Noah is the 10th. The 9th powerful transitions to the 10th completeness of rest.

Genealogy from Adam to Lamech (Qayin’s line):

1. Adam

2. Qayin (Adam’s first son who killed Hebel)

3. Enoch (Qayin’s son—not to be confused with the righteous Enoch in Seth’s line)

4. Irad

5. Mehujael

6. Methushael

7. Lamech

So, Lamech is the 7th from Adam in Cain’s genealogy. And as the 7th sits here as a figure of judgment for not falling in line with Yahusha’s Shemitah but being part of the carnal Shemitah known as ‘way of Qayin’.

The Lamech in Seth’s lineage is at number 9

Lev 25:22 – “You shall sow in the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in you shall eat of the old store.”

We saw the blessing of Yahuah would prevail over the land if Shemitah was observed in its eternal purpose, that He would bless YasharEL in the sixth year (48th year) and while they would sow in the eighth year (51st year ie. A new Shemitah cycle), they would be still eating of the old fruit in the 9th year which corresponds to the 52nd year ie. 2nd year or a New Shemitah cycle until the fruits of what was sown in the 8th year start coming in, in the 9th year. 

It begins from the end of a Shemitah where Jude speaks of Enoch (Jude 1:14) the 7th from Adam, making the announcement of the coming of Yahusha. 

Jud 1:14  And Ḥanoḵ, the seventh from Aḏam, also prophesied of these, saying, “See, יהוה comes with His myriads of set-apart ones,

Jud 1:15  to execute judgment on all, to punish all who are wicked among them concerning all their wicked works which they have committed in a wicked way, and concerning all the harsh words which wicked sinners have spoken against Him.”

Enoch חנוך H2585 means ‘dedicated’

Number 8th in Seth’s lineage is Methuselah who lived the longest among all mankind, ie. 969 years. Methuselah in Hebrew means ‘And his death will bring’ 

9th is Lamech whose name means powerful 

10th is Noah whose name means ‘rest’ 

‘Dedicated, his death will bring the powerful rest’ (7—8—9—10)

Sequential Flow: 7 → 8 → 9 → 10

Number	Meaning	Symbolic Flow
7	Completion,	Elohim’s cycle finishes. Yahusha rose from the dead, marking end or completion of death. Dedication of the altar and the body temple.
8	New beginning	New creation starts. Shemen (the anointing oil)
9	Fruitfulness, maturity	Result of the new life (fruits of the Ruach. A righteous behaviour rooted in Torah of life (from milk to solid meat).
10	Law, structure, accountability of the Renewed Covenant	Full expression of divine order in the human realm in its full force of completeness which brings the Rest.

Lamech died at 777 years which is again a marker placed as the Adon said “As in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of Adam” Matt 24:37

His lifespan shows the 7,000th year (the eternal rest Shabbath), the 7th day of the 7th month. 

7th Day of the 7th Month?

The layer 

• 7th day → Sabbath rest

• 7th month in the Hebrew calendar = Tishrei, the concluding fall feasts month.

777 = culmination of all “sevens”, it fits the symbolic 7000th year, or final Sabbath — the end of time as we know it and the entrance into Elohim’s complete rest.

Finally number 9 in scripture snapshot

Symbolism	Explanation
Finality	Completion of cycles; Yahusha’s death at the 9th hour
Judgment	Often connected with judgment and justice (e.g., 9 plagues resulting in a decisive 10th, Day of Atonement)
Fruitfulness	Nine months of gestation pointing to a fullness of time ; nine fruits of the Spirit.