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Seventeen [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Seven and ten.

Seventeen [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years.

Seventeen [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The number greater by one than sixteen; the sum of ten and seven; seventeen units or objects.

2. A symbol denoting seventeen units, as 17, or xvii.

Seventeenth [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The ordinal of seventeen; the seventh after the tenth.

2. On the seventeenth day of the second month- all the fountains of the great deep were broken up. Genesis 7:11 .

Seventeenth [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others.

2. Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Seventeenth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The next in order after the sixteenth; one coming after sixteen others.

2. The quotient of a unit divided by seventeen; one of seventeen equal parts or divisions of one whole.

3. An interval of two octaves and a third.

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20 KJV and 12 BSB verses contain “Seventeen”

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 8:4

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 37:2

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

Genesis 47:28

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.

Judges 8:14

And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.

There he captured a young man of Succoth and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven leaders and elders of Succoth.

1 Kings 14:21

And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

1 Kings 22:51

Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.

In the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat’s reign over Judah, Ahaziah son of Ahab became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria two years.

2 Kings 13:1

In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.

In the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash son of Ahaziah over Judah, Jehoahaz son of Jehu became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria seventeen years.

2 Kings 16:1

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham became king of Judah.

1 Chronicles 7:11

All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.

Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. All these sons of Jediael were heads of their families, mighty men of valor; there were 17,200 fit for battle.

1 Chronicles 24:15

The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,

the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,

1 Chronicles 25:24

The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons, and his brothers—12 in all;

2 Chronicles 12:13

So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

Ezra 2:39

The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

and the descendants of Harim, 1,017.

Nehemiah 7:42

The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

and the descendants of Harim, 1,017.

Jeremiah 32:9

And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.

1 Esdras 4:52

And other ten talents yearly, to maintain the burnt offerings upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to offer seventeen:

1 Esdras 5:25

The sons of Phassaron, a thousand forty and seven: the sons of Carme, a thousand and seventeen.

Judith 1:13

Then he marched in battle array with his power against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth year, and he prevailed in his battle: for he overthrew all the power of Arphaxad, and all his horsemen, and all his chariots,

1 Maccabees 16:14

Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them; at which time he came down himself to Jericho with his sons, Mattathias and Judas, in the hundred threescore and seventeenth year, in the eleventh month, called Sabat: