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{{Short description|Integer number 7}}
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{{Infobox number
| number = 7
|number=7
| numeral = [[septenary]]
|numeral=[[septenary]]
| factorization = [[prime number|prime]]
|factorization=[[prime number|prime]]
| prime = 4th
|prime=4th
| divisor = 1, 7
|divisor=1, 7
| roman unicode =,
|roman =VII, vii
| greek prefix = [[wikt:hepta-|hepta-]]/[[wikt:hept-|hept-]]
|greek prefix=[[wikt:hepta-|hepta-]]/[[wikt:hept-|hept-]]
| latin prefix = [[wikt:septua-|septua-]]
|latin prefix=[[wikt:septua-|septua-]]
| lang1 = [[Greek numeral]]
|lang1=[[Greek numeral]]
| lang1 symbol = [[zeta|Z]], ζ
|lang1 symbol=[[zeta|Z]], ζ
| lang2 = [[Amharic language|Amharic]]
|lang2=[[Amharic language|Amharic]]
| lang2 symbol =
|lang2 symbol=፯
|lang3=[[Eastern Arabic numerals|Arabic]], [[Central Kurdish|Kurdish]], [[Persian language|Persian]]
| lang3 = [[Arabic]]
| lang3 symbol = {{resize|150%|٧}}
|lang3 symbol={{resize|150%|٧}}
| lang4 = [[Persian language|Persian]] & [[Central Kurdish|Kurdish]]
|lang4=[[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], [[Urdu numerals|Urdu]]
| lang4 symbol = {{resize|150%|٧}}
|lang4 symbol={{resize|150%|{{lang|ur|۷}}}}
| lang5 = [[Urdu]]
|lang5=[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| lang5 symbol = {{Urdu numeral|7|20}}
|lang5 symbol={{resize|150%|}}
| lang6 = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|lang6=[[Chinese numeral]]
| lang6 symbol = {{resize|150%|৭}}
|lang6 symbol=七,
| lang7 = [[Chinese numeral]]
|lang7=[[Devanāgarī]]
| lang7 symbol = 七(qi)
|lang7 symbol={{resize|150%|७}}
| lang8 = [[Devanāgarī]]
|lang8=[[Telugu language|Telugu]]
| lang8 symbol = {{resize|150%|}} (sat)
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| lang9 = [[Telugu language|Telugu]]
|lang9=[[Tamil language|Tamil]]
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|lang9 symbol={{resize|150%|}}
| lang10 = [[Tamil language|Tamil]]
|lang10=[[Hebrew (language)|Hebrew]]
| lang10 symbol = {{resize|150%|}}
|lang10 symbol={{resize|150%|ז}}
| lang11 = [[Hebrew (language)|Hebrew]]
|lang11=[[Khmer numerals|Khmer]]
| lang11 symbol = {{resize|150%|ז}} (Zayin)
|lang11 symbol=
| lang12 = [[Khmer numerals|Khmer]]
|lang12=[[Thai numerals|Thai]]
| lang12 symbol =
|lang12 symbol=
| lang13 = [[Thai numerals|Thai]]
|lang13=[[Kannada language|Kannada]]
| lang13 symbol =
|lang13 symbol={{resize|150%|೭}}
| lang14 = [[Saraiki dialect|Saraiki]]
|lang14=[[Malayalam language|Malayalam]]
| lang14 symbol = {{resize|150%|٧}}
|lang14 symbol=
|lang15=[[Armenian numerals|Armenian]]|lang15 symbol=Է|lang16=[[Babylonian cuneiform numerals|Babylonian numeral]]|lang16 symbol=𒐛|lang17=[[Egyptian numerals|Egyptian hieroglyph]]|lang17 symbol={{resize|200%|𓐀}}|lang19=[[Morse code]]|lang19 symbol={{resize|150%|_ _...}}}}
| lang15 = [[Kannada language|Kannada]]
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'''7''' ('''seven'''; {{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|ɛ|v|ə|n|}}) is the [[natural number]] following [[6]] and preceding [[8]].


'''7''' ('''seven''') is the [[natural number]] following [[6]] and preceding [[8]]. It is the only [[prime number]] preceding a [[cube (algebra)|cube]].
==Mathematics==
* Seven, the fourth [[prime number]], is not only a [[Mersenne prime]] (since {{nowrap|1=2{{sup|3}} − 1 = 7}}) but also a [[double Mersenne prime]] since the exponent, 3, is itself a Mersenne prime. It is also a [[Newman–Shanks–Williams prime]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oeis.org/A088165|title=Sloane's A088165 : NSW primes|last=|first=|date=|website=The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences|publisher=OEIS Foundation|access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref> a [[Woodall prime]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oeis.org/A050918|title=Sloane's A050918 : Woodall primes|last=|first=|date=|website=The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences|publisher=OEIS Foundation|access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref> a [[factorial prime]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oeis.org/A088054|title=Sloane's A088054 : Factorial primes|last=|first=|date=|website=The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences|publisher=OEIS Foundation|access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref> a [[lucky prime]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oeis.org/A031157|title=Sloane's A031157 : Numbers that are both lucky and prime|last=|first=|date=|website=The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences|publisher=OEIS Foundation|access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref> a [[happy number]] (happy prime),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oeis.org/A035497|title=Sloane's A035497 : Happy primes|last=|first=|date=|website=The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences|publisher=OEIS Foundation|access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref> a [[safe prime]] (the only Mersenne safe prime), and the fourth [[Heegner number]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oeis.org/A003173|title=Sloane's A003173 : Heegner numbers|last=|first=|date=|website=The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences|publisher=OEIS Foundation|access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref>
* Seven is the lowest natural number that cannot be represented as the sum of the squares of three integers. (See [[Lagrange's four-square theorem#Historical development]].)
* Seven is the [[aliquot sum]] of one number, the [[cubic number]] {{num|8}} and is the base of the 7-aliquot tree.
* ''n'' = 7 is the first natural number for which the next statement does not hold: "Two [[nilpotent]] [[endomorphism]]s from '''C'''<sup>''n''</sup> with the same [[minimal polynomial (linear algebra)|minimal polynomial]] and the same rank are similar."
* 7 is the only number ''D'' for which the equation {{nowrap|1=2{{sup|''n''}} − ''D'' = ''x''{{sup|2}}}} has more than two solutions for ''n'' and ''x'' natural. In particular, the equation {{nowrap|1=2{{sup|''n''}} − 7 = ''x''{{sup|2}}}} is known as the [[Ramanujan–Nagell equation]].
* 7 is the only dimension, besides the familiar 3, in which a vector [[cross product]] can [[seven-dimensional cross product|be defined]].
* 7 is the lowest [[dimension]] of a known [[exotic sphere]], although there may exist as yet unknown exotic smooth structures on the 4-dimensional sphere.
* [[999999 (number)|999,999]] divided by 7 is exactly [[142857 (number)|142,857]]. Therefore, when a [[vulgar fraction]] with 7 in the [[denominator]] is converted to a [[decimal]] expansion, the result has the same six-[[numerical digit|digit]] repeating sequence after the decimal point, but the sequence can start with any of those six digits.<ref>Bryan Bunch, ''[[The Kingdom of Infinite Number]]''. New York: W. H. Freeman & Company (2000): 82</ref> For example, 1/7&nbsp;=&nbsp;0.142857&nbsp;142857... and 2/7&nbsp;=&nbsp;0.285714&nbsp;285714....
:In fact, if one sorts the digits in the number 142857 in ascending order, 124578, it is possible to know from which of the digits the decimal part of the number is going to begin with. The remainder of dividing any number by 7 will give the position in the sequence 124578 that the decimal part of the resulting number will start. For example, 628 ÷ 7 = {{sfrac|89|5|7}}; here 5 is the remainder, and would correspond to number 7 in the ranking of the ascending sequence. So in this case, 628 ÷ 7 = 89.714285. Another example, 5238 ÷ 7 = {{sfrac|748|2|7}}, hence the remainder is 2, and this corresponds to number 2 in the sequence. In this case, 5238 ÷ 7 = 748.285714.
* A seven-sided shape is a [[heptagon]]. The regular ''n''-gons for ''n'' ≤ 6 can be constructed by [[compass and straightedge]] alone, but the regular heptagon cannot. [[Figurate number]]s representing heptagons (including seven) are called [[heptagonal number]]s. Seven is also a [[centered hexagonal number]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oeis.org/A003215|title=Sloane's A003215 : Hex (or centered hexagonal) numbers|last=|first=|date=|website=The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences|publisher=OEIS Foundation|access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref>
* Seven is the first integer reciprocal ([[multiplicative inverse]]) with infinitely repeating [[sexagesimal]] representation.
* There are seven [[frieze group]]s, the [[group (mathematics)|groups]] consisting of [[symmetry group|symmetries]] of the plane whose group of [[translation (mathematics)|translations]] is [[isomorphic]] to the group of [[integer]]s.
* There are seven fundamental types of [[catastrophe theory|catastrophes]].
[[File:Dice Distribution (bar).svg|thumb|Graph of the probability distribution of the sum of 2 six-sided dice]]
* When rolling two standard six-sided [[dice]], seven has a 6 in {{num|36}} (or {{sfrac|6}}) probability of being rolled (1–6, 6–1, 2–5, 5–2, 3–4, or 4–3), the greatest of any number.
* The [[Millennium Prize Problems]] are seven problems in [[mathematics]] that were stated by the [[Clay Mathematics Institute]] in 2000. Currently, six of the problems remain [[unsolved problems in mathematics|unsolved]].


As an early prime number in the series of [[positive integers]], the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in [[religion]], [[mythology]], [[superstition]] and [[philosophy]]. The seven [[classical planet]]s resulted in seven being the number of days in a week.<ref>[[Carl Benjamin Boyer|Carl B. Boyer]], ''A History of Mathematics'' (1968) p.52, 2nd edn.</ref> 7 is often considered [[luck]]y in [[Western culture]] and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in [[Vietnamese culture]], the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
===Numeral systems===

{| class="wikitable"
==Evolution of the Arabic digit==
|-

! [[Radix|Base]]
{{More citations needed section|date=May 2024}}
! [[Numeral system]]

!
[[File:SevenGlyph.svg|x50px|left]]
|-
For early [[Brahmi numerals]], 7 was written more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase {{angbr|J}} vertically inverted (ᒉ). The western Arab peoples' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arab peoples developed the digit from a form that looked something like 6 to one that looked like an uppercase V. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke form consisting of a horizontal upper stroke joined at its right to a stroke going down to the bottom left corner, a line that is slightly curved in some font variants. As is the case with the European digit, the [[Cham script#Numerals|Cham]] and [[Khmer script#Numerals|Khmer digit]] for 7 also evolved to look like their digit 1, though in a different way, so they were also concerned with making their 7 more different. For the Khmer this often involved adding a horizontal line to the top of the digit.<ref>Georges Ifrah, ''The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer'' transl. David Bellos et al. London: The Harvill Press (1998): 395, Fig. 24.67</ref> This is analogous to the horizontal stroke through the middle that is sometimes used in [[handwriting]] in the Western world but which is almost never used in [[computer fonts]]. This horizontal stroke is, however, important to distinguish the glyph for seven from the glyph for [[1 (number)|one]] in writing that uses a long upstroke in the glyph for 1. In some Greek dialects of the early 12th&nbsp;century the longer line diagonal was drawn in a rather semicircular transverse line.
| 2 || [[binary numeral system|binary]] || 111
[[File:Digital77.svg|left|x50px]]
|-
On [[seven-segment display]]s, 7 is the digit with the most common graphic variation (1, 6 and 9 also have variant glyphs). Most devices use three line segments, but devices made by some Japanese companies such as [[Sharp Corporation|Sharp]] and [[Casio]], as well as in the Koreas and Taiwan, 7 is written with four line segments because in those countries, 7 is written with a "hook" on the left, as ① in the following illustration. Further segments can give further variation. For example, [[Schindler Group|Schindler]] elevators in the United States and Canada installed or modernized from the late 1990s onwards usually use a sixteen segment display and show the digit 7 in a manner more similar to that of handwriting.
| 3 || [[ternary numeral system|ternary]] || 21
[[File:sevens.svg|left|x50px]]
|-
While the shape of the character for the digit 7 has an [[ascender (typography)|ascender]] in most modern [[typeface]]s, in typefaces with [[text figures]] the character usually has a [[descender]] (⁊), as, for example, in [[File:TextFigs078.svg|40px]].
| 4 || [[quaternary numeral system|quaternary]] || 13

|-
[[File:Hand Written 7.svg|left|x50px]]Most people in Continental Europe,<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Aamulehti: Opetushallitus harkitsee numero 7 viivan palauttamista |author=Eeva Törmänen |date=September 8, 2011 |journal=Tekniikka & Talous |url=http://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/viihde/aamulehti+opetushallitus+harkitsee+numero+7+viivan+palauttamista/a682831 |language=fi |access-date=September 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917083226/http://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/viihde/aamulehti+opetushallitus+harkitsee+numero+7+viivan+palauttamista/a682831 |archive-date=September 17, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Indonesia,{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} and some in Britain, Ireland, and Canada, as well as Latin America, write 7 with a line through the middle ({{strikethrough|7}}), sometimes with the top line crooked. The line through the middle is useful to clearly differentiate the digit from the digit one, as they can appear similar when written in certain styles of handwriting. This form is used in official handwriting rules for [[primary school]] in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, other Slavic countries,<ref>[http://www.adu.by/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=858 "Education writing numerals in grade 1."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002092040/http://www.adu.by/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=858 |date=2008-10-02 }}(Russian)</ref> France,<ref>[http://www.pour-enfants.fr/jeux-imprimer/apprendre/les-chiffres/ecrire-les-chiffres.png "Example of teaching materials for pre-schoolers"](French)</ref> Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland,<ref>{{Cite journal |title="Nenosen seiska" teki paluun: Tiesitkö, mistä poikkiviiva on peräisin? |author=Elli Harju |date=August 6, 2015 |journal=Iltalehti |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/a/2015080620139397 |language=fi}}</ref> Romania, Germany, Greece,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ebooks.edu.gr/modules/document/file.php/DSDIM-A102/%CE%94%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%B1%CE%BA%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%20%CE%A0%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%AD%CF%84%CE%BF/%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%B2%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%BF%20%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%B8%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%AE/10-0007-02_Mathimatika_A-Dim_BM-1.pdf |title=Μαθηματικά Α' Δημοτικού |language=el |trans-title=Mathematics for the First Grade |publisher=Ministry of Education, Research, and Religions |access-date=May 7, 2018 |page=33}}</ref> and Hungary.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
| 5 || [[quinary]] || 12

|-
==In mathematics==
| 6 || [[senary]] || 11
Seven, the fourth prime number, is not only a [[Mersenne prime]] (since <math>2^3 - 1 = 7</math>) but also a [[double Mersenne prime]] since the exponent, 3, is itself a Mersenne prime.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Weisstein|first=Eric W.|title=Double Mersenne Number|url=https://mathworld.wolfram.com/DoubleMersenneNumber.html|access-date=2020-08-06|website=mathworld.wolfram.com}}</ref> It is also a [[Newman–Shanks–Williams prime]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://oeis.org/A088165 |title=Sloane's A088165 : NSW primes |website=The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences |publisher=OEIS Foundation |access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref> a [[Woodall prime]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://oeis.org/A050918 |title=Sloane's A050918 : Woodall primes |website=The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences |publisher=OEIS Foundation |access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref> a [[factorial prime]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://oeis.org/A088054 |title=Sloane's A088054 : Factorial primes |website=The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences |publisher=OEIS Foundation |access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref> a [[Harshad number]], a [[lucky prime]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://oeis.org/A031157 |title=Sloane's A031157 : Numbers that are both lucky and prime |website=The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences |publisher=OEIS Foundation |access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref> a [[happy number]] (happy prime),<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://oeis.org/A035497 |title=Sloane's A035497 : Happy primes |website=The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences |publisher=OEIS Foundation |access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref> a [[safe prime]] (the only {{vanchor|Mersenne safe prime}}), a [[Leyland number#Leyland number of the second kind|Leyland number of the second kind]]<ref>{{Cite OEIS|A045575|Leyland numbers of the second kind}}</ref> and [[Leyland number#Leyland number of the second kind|Leyland prime of the second kind]]<ref>{{Cite OEIS|A123206|Leyland prime numbers of the second kind}}</ref> {{nowrap|(<math>2^5-5^2</math>),}} and the fourth [[Heegner number]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://oeis.org/A003173 |title=Sloane's A003173 : Heegner numbers |website=The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences |publisher=OEIS Foundation |access-date=2016-06-01}}</ref> Seven is the lowest natural number that cannot be represented as the sum of the squares of three integers.
|-

| 7 || [[septenary]] || 10
A seven-sided shape is a [[heptagon]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weisstein |first=Eric W. |title=Heptagon |url=https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Heptagon.html |access-date=2020-08-25 |website=mathworld.wolfram.com}}</ref> The [[Regular polygon|regular]] ''n''-gons for ''n'' ⩽ 6 can be constructed by [[compass and straightedge]] alone, which makes the heptagon the first regular polygon that cannot be directly constructed with these simple tools.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weisstein |first=Eric W. |title=7 |url=https://mathworld.wolfram.com/7.html |access-date=2020-08-07 |website=mathworld.wolfram.com}}</ref>
|-

| colspan="2" | over 7 ([[octal]], [[decimal]], etc.)
7 is the only number ''D'' for which the equation {{nowrap|1=2{{sup|''n''}} − ''D'' = ''x''{{sup|2}}}} has more than two solutions for ''n'' and ''x'' [[Natural number|natural]]. In particular, the equation {{nowrap|1=2{{sup|''n''}} − 7 = ''x''{{sup|2}}}} is known as the [[Ramanujan–Nagell equation]]. 7 is one of seven numbers in the positive [[Quadratic form|definite quadratic]] [[integer matrix]] representative of all [[Parity (mathematics)|odd]] numbers: {1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 15, 33}.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Henri |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-49923-9 |title=Number Theory Volume I: Tools and Diophantine Equations |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-387-49922-2 |edition=1st |series=[[Graduate Texts in Mathematics]] |volume=239 |pages=312–314 |chapter=Consequences of the Hasse–Minkowski Theorem |doi=10.1007/978-0-387-49923-9 |oclc=493636622 |zbl=1119.11001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite OEIS|A116582|Numbers from Bhargava's 33 theorem.|access-date=2024-02-03}}</ref>
| 7

|}
There are 7 [[frieze group]]s in two dimensions, consisting of [[symmetry group|symmetries]] of the [[Plane (geometry)|plane]] whose group of [[Translation (geometry)|translations]] is [[isomorphic]] to the group of [[integer]]s.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Heyden |first1=Anders |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4yCqCAAAQBAJ&q=seven+frieze+groups&pg=PA661 |title=Computer Vision – ECCV 2002: 7th European Conference on Computer Vision, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 28–31, 2002. Proceedings. Part II |last2=Sparr |first2=Gunnar |last3=Nielsen |first3=Mads |last4=Johansen |first4=Peter |date=2003-08-02 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-540-47967-3 |pages=661 |quote=A frieze pattern can be classified into one of the 7 frieze groups...}}</ref> These are related to the [[17 (number)|17]] [[wallpaper group]]s whose transformations and [[Isometry|isometries]] repeat two-dimensional patterns in the plane.<ref>{{Cite book |author1=Grünbaum, Branko |author-link=Branko Grünbaum |author2=Shephard, G. C. |author2-link=G.C. Shephard |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_0716711931 |title=Tilings and Patterns |chapter=Section 1.4 Symmetry Groups of Tilings |publisher=W. H. Freeman and Company |location=New York |year=1987 |pages=40–45 |doi=10.2307/2323457 |jstor=2323457 |isbn=0-7167-1193-1 |oclc=13092426 |s2cid=119730123 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite OEIS |A004029 |Number of n-dimensional space groups. |access-date=2023-01-30 }}</ref>

A heptagon in [[Euclidean space]] is unable to generate [[uniform tiling]]s alongside other polygons, like the regular [[pentagon]]. However, it is one of fourteen polygons that can fill a [[Euclidean tilings by convex regular polygons#Plane-vertex tilings|plane-vertex tiling]], in its case only alongside a regular [[Equilateral triangle|triangle]] and a 42-sided polygon ([[:File:3.7.42 vertex.png|3.7.42]]).<ref>{{Cite journal |first1=Branko |last1=Grünbaum |author-link=Branko Grünbaum |first2=Geoffrey |last2=Shepard |author-link2=G.C. Shephard |title=Tilings by Regular Polygons |date=November 1977 |url=http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/images/upload_library/22/Allendoerfer/1978/0025570x.di021102.02p0230f.pdf |journal=[[Mathematics Magazine]] |volume=50 |issue=5 |publisher=Taylor & Francis, Ltd.|page=231 |doi=10.2307/2689529 |jstor=2689529 |s2cid=123776612 |zbl=0385.51006 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jardine |first=Kevin |url=http://gruze.org/tilings/3_7_42_shield|title=Shield - a 3.7.42 tiling |website=Imperfect Congruence |access-date=2023-01-09 }} 3.7.42 as a unit facet in an irregular tiling.</ref> This is also one of twenty-one such configurations from seventeen combinations of polygons, that features the largest and smallest polygons possible.<ref>{{Cite journal |first1=Branko |last1=Grünbaum |author-link=Branko Grünbaum |first2=Geoffrey |last2=Shepard |author-link2=G.C. Shephard |title=Tilings by Regular Polygons |date=November 1977 |url=http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/images/upload_library/22/Allendoerfer/1978/0025570x.di021102.02p0230f.pdf |journal=[[Mathematics Magazine]] |volume=50 |issue=5 |publisher=Taylor & Francis, Ltd.|pages=229–230 |doi=10.2307/2689529 |jstor=2689529 |s2cid=123776612 |zbl=0385.51006 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |first=Elmslie William |last=Dallas |author-link=Elmslie William Dallas |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y4BaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA134 |title=The Elements of Plane Practical Geometry |chapter=Part II. (VII): Of the Circle, with its Inscribed and Circumscribed Figures − Equal Division and the Construction of Polygons |publisher=John W. Parker & Son, West Strand |location=London |year=1855 |page=134 }}
:"...It will thus be found that, including the employment of the same figures, there are seventeen different combinations of regular polygons by which this may be effected; namely, —
:When three polygons are employed, there are ten ways; viz., [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 3 6 6 6.svg|6,6,6]] – [[:File:3.7.42 vertex.png|'''3.7.42''']] — [[:File:3.8.24 vertex.png|3,8,24]] – [[:File:3.9.18 vertex.png|3,9,18]] — [[:File:3.10.15 vertex.png|3,10,15]] — [[:File:Vertex type 3-12-12.svg|3,12,12]] — [[:File:4.5.20 vertex.png|4,5,20]] — [[:File:Vertex type 4-6-12.svg|4,6,12]] — [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 3 4 8 8.svg|4,8,8]] — [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 3 5 5 10.svg|5,5,10]].
:With four polygons there are four ways, viz., [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 4 4 4 4 4.svg|4,4,4,4]] — [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 4 3 3 4 12.svg|3,3,4,12]] — [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 4 3 3 6 6.svg|3,3,6,6]] — [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 4 3 4 4 6.svg|3,4,4,6]].
:With five polygons there are two ways, viz., [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 5 3 3 4 3 4.svg|3,3,3,4,4]] — [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 5 3 3 3 3 6.svg|3,3,3,3,6]].
:With six polygons one way — all equilateral triangles [ [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 6 3 3 3 3 3 3.svg|3.3.3.3.3.3]] ]."
Note: the only four other configurations from the same combinations of polygons are: [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 4 3 4 3 12.svg|3.4.3.12]], [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 4 3 6 3 6.svg|(3.6)<sup>2</sup>]], [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 4 3 4 6 4.svg|3.4.6.4]], and [[:File:Regular polygons meeting at vertex 5 3 3 4 3 4.svg|3.3.4.3.4]].</ref> Otherwise, for any regular ''n''-sided polygon, the maximum number of intersecting diagonals (other than through its center) is at most 7.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Poonen |first1=Bjorn |author1-link=Bjorn Poonen |last2=Rubinstein |first2=Michael |title=The Number of Intersection Points Made by the Diagonals of a Regular Polygon |url=https://math.mit.edu/~poonen/papers/ngon.pdf |journal=SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics |volume=11 |issue=1 |publisher=[[Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics]] |location=Philadelphia |year=1998 |pages=135–156 |doi=10.1137/S0895480195281246 |arxiv=math/9508209 |mr=1612877 |zbl=0913.51005 |s2cid=8673508 }}</ref>

In two dimensions, there are precisely seven [[Euclidean tilings by convex regular polygons#k-uniform tilings|7-uniform]] ''Krotenheerdt'' tilings, with no other such ''k''-uniform tilings for ''k'' > 7, and it is also the only ''k'' for which the count of ''Krotenheerdt'' tilings agrees with ''k''.<ref>{{Cite OEIS |A068600 |Number of n-uniform tilings having n different arrangements of polygons about their vertices. |access-date=2023-01-09 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |first1=Branko |last1=Grünbaum |author-link=Branko Grünbaum |first2=Geoffrey |last2=Shepard |author-link2=G.C. Shephard |title=Tilings by Regular Polygons |date=November 1977 |url=http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/images/upload_library/22/Allendoerfer/1978/0025570x.di021102.02p0230f.pdf |journal=[[Mathematics Magazine]] |volume=50 |issue=5 |publisher=Taylor & Francis, Ltd.|page=236 |doi=10.2307/2689529 |jstor=2689529 |s2cid=123776612 |zbl=0385.51006 }}</ref>

The [[Fano plane]], the smallest possible [[finite projective plane]], has 7 points and 7 lines arranged such that every line contains 3 points and 3 lines cross every point.<ref>{{Cite book |first1=Tomaž |last1=Pisanski |first2=Brigitte |last2=Servatius |author1-link=Tomaž Pisanski |author2-link=Brigitte Servatius |title=Configurations from a Graphical Viewpoint |chapter=Section 1.1: Hexagrammum Mysticum |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-0-8176-8364-1_5 |edition=1 |publisher=[[Birkhäuser]] |series=Birkhäuser Advanced Texts |location=Boston, MA |year=2013 |pages=5–6 |isbn=978-0-8176-8363-4 |oclc=811773514 |doi=10.1007/978-0-8176-8364-1 |zbl=1277.05001 }}</ref> This is related to other appearances of the number seven in relation to [[exceptional object]]s, like the fact that the [[octonion]]s contain seven distinct square roots of −1, [[seven-dimensional cross product|seven-dimensional vectors]] have a [[cross product]], and the number of [[equiangular lines]] possible in seven-dimensional space is anomalously large.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1f6b/ff1e992f60eb87b35c3ceed04272fb5cc298.pdf |title=Cross products of vectors in higher dimensional Euclidean spaces |first=William S. |last=Massey |author-link=William S. Massey |journal=The American Mathematical Monthly |volume=90 |issue=10 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis, Ltd]] |date=December 1983 |pages=697–701 |doi=10.2307/2323537 |jstor=2323537 |s2cid=43318100 |zbl=0532.55011 |access-date=2023-02-23 |archive-date=2021-02-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226011747/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1f6b/ff1e992f60eb87b35c3ceed04272fb5cc298.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Baez |first1=John C. |author-link=John Baez |url=http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/octonions/ |title=The Octonions |journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society |volume=39 |issue=2 |publisher=[[American Mathematical Society]] |pages=152–153 |year=2002 |doi=10.1090/S0273-0979-01-00934-X |mr=1886087|s2cid=586512 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Stacey |first=Blake C. |title=A First Course in the Sporadic SICs |date=2021 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-030-76104-2 |location=Cham, Switzerland |pages=2–4 |oclc=1253477267}}</ref>[[File:Dice Distribution (bar).svg|thumb|Graph of the probability distribution of the sum of two six-sided dice]]

The lowest known dimension for an [[exotic sphere]] is the seventh dimension.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Behrens |first1=M. |last2=Hill |first2=M. |last3=Hopkins |first3=M. J. |last4=Mahowald |first4=M. |date=2020 |title=Detecting exotic spheres in low dimensions using coker J |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1112/jlms.12301 |journal=Journal of the London Mathematical Society |publisher=[[London Mathematical Society]] |volume=101 |issue=3 |pages=1173 |arxiv=1708.06854 |doi=10.1112/jlms.12301 |mr=4111938 |s2cid=119170255 |zbl=1460.55017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite OEIS|A001676|Number of h-cobordism classes of smooth homotopy n-spheres.|access-date=2023-02-23}}</ref>

In [[hyperbolic space]], 7 is the highest dimension for non-simplex [[Coxeter–Dynkin diagram#Hypercompact Coxeter groups (Vinberg polytopes)|hypercompact ''Vinberg polytopes'']] of rank ''n + 4'' mirrors, where there is one unique figure with eleven [[Facet (geometry)|facets]]. On the other hand, such figures with rank ''n + 3'' mirrors exist in dimensions 4, 5, 6 and 8; ''not'' in 7.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Tumarkin |first1=Pavel |last2=Felikson |first2=Anna |url=https://www.ams.org/journals/mosc/2008-69-00/S0077-1554-08-00172-6/S0077-1554-08-00172-6.pdf |title=On ''d''-dimensional compact hyperbolic Coxeter polytopes with ''d + 4'' facets |journal=Transactions of the Moscow Mathematical Society |volume=69 |publisher=[[American Mathematical Society]] (Translation) |location=Providence, R.I. |year=2008 |pages=105–151 |doi= 10.1090/S0077-1554-08-00172-6 |doi-access=free |mr=2549446 |s2cid=37141102 |zbl=1208.52012 }}</ref>

There are seven fundamental types of [[catastrophe theory|catastrophes]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Antoni|first1=F. de|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3L_sCAAAQBAJ&q=seven+fundamental+types+of+catastrophes&pg=PA13|title=COMPSTAT: Proceedings in Computational Statistics, 7th Symposium held in Rome 1986|last2=Lauro|first2=N.|last3=Rizzi|first3=A.|date=2012-12-06|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-642-46890-2|pages=13|quote=...every catastrophe can be composed from the set of so called elementary catastrophes, which are of seven fundamental types.}}</ref>

When rolling two standard six-sided [[dice]], seven has a 1 in 6 probability of being rolled, the greatest of any number.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Weisstein|first=Eric W.|title=Dice|url=https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Dice.html|access-date=2020-08-25|website=mathworld.wolfram.com}}</ref> The opposite sides of a standard six-sided die always add to 7.


The [[Millennium Prize Problems]] are seven problems in [[mathematics]] that were stated by the [[Clay Mathematics Institute]] in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Millennium Problems {{!}} Clay Mathematics Institute |url=http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems |access-date=2020-08-25 |website=www.claymath.org}}</ref> Currently, six of the problems remain [[unsolved problems in mathematics|unsolved]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-12-15 |title=Poincaré Conjecture {{!}} Clay Mathematics Institute |url=http://www.claymath.org/millenium-problems/poincar%C3%A9-conjecture |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215120130/http://www.claymath.org/millenium-problems/poincar%C3%A9-conjecture |archive-date=2013-12-15 |access-date=2020-08-25}}</ref>
In quaternary, 7 is the smallest prime with a composite sum of digits.


===Basic calculations===
===Basic calculations===
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{{num|999,999}} divided by 7 is exactly {{num|142,857}}. Therefore, when a [[vulgar fraction]] with 7 in the [[denominator]] is converted to a [[decimal]] expansion, the result has the same six-[[numerical digit|digit]] repeating sequence after the decimal point, but the sequence can start with any of those six digits.<ref>Bryan Bunch, ''The Kingdom of Infinite Number''. New York: W. H. Freeman & Company (2000): 82</ref> In [[decimal]] representation, the [[Multiplicative inverse|reciprocal]] of 7 repeats six [[Numerical digit|digits]] (as 0.{{overline|142857}}),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wells |first=D. |url=https://archive.org/details/penguindictionar0000well_f3y1/mode/2up |title=The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |year=1987 |isbn=0-14-008029-5 |location=London |pages=171–174 |oclc=39262447 |url-access=registration |s2cid=118329153}}</ref><ref>{{Cite OEIS|A060283|Periodic part of decimal expansion of reciprocal of n-th prime (leading 0's moved to end).|access-date=2024-04-02}}</ref> whose sum when [[Cyclic number#Relation to repeating decimals|cycling]] back to [[1]] is equal to 28.
==Evolution of the glyph==
[[File:SevenGlyph.svg|x50px|right]]
In the beginning, various [[Hindu]]s wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an [[uppercase]] [[J]] vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the [[grapheme|character]] more rectilinear. The eastern [[Arab]]s developed the character from a 6-look-alike into an uppercase V-look-alike. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke character consisting of a horizontal upper line joined at its right to a line going down to the bottom left corner, a line that is slightly curved in some font variants. As is the case with the [[Europe]]an glyph, the Cham and Khmer glyph for 7 also evolved to look like their glyph for 1, though in a different way, so they were also concerned with making their 7 more different. For the Khmer this often involved adding a horizontal line above the glyph.<ref>Georges Ifrah, ''The Universal History of Numbers: From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer'' transl. David Bellos et al. London: The Harvill Press (1998): 395, Fig. 24.67</ref> This is analogous to the horizontal stroke through the middle that is sometimes used in handwriting in the Western world but which is almost never used in computer fonts. This horizontal stroke is, however, important to distinguish the glyph for seven from the glyph for [[1 (number)|one]] in writings that use a long upstroke in the glyph for 1. In some Greek dialects of early 12th century the longer line diagonal was drawn in a rather semicircular transverse line.
[[File:sevens.svg|right|x50px]]
[[File:Digital77.svg|left|x50px]]
On the [[seven-segment display]]s of pocket calculators and digital watches, 7 is the number with the most common glyph variation (1, 6 and 9 also have variant glyphs). Most calculators use three line segments, but on [[Sharp Corporation|Sharp]], [[Casio]], and a few other brands of calculators, 7 is written with four line segments because, in Japan, Korea and Taiwan 7 is written as ① in the illustration to the right.


==In science==
While the shape of the 7 character has an [[ascender (typography)|ascender]] in most modern [[typeface]]s, in typefaces with [[text figures]] the character usually has a [[descender]], as, for example, in [[File:TextFigs078.svg|40px]].
* Seven [[continent]]s
* [[Seven climes]]
* The neutral [[pH balance]]
* Number of notes in the [[diatonic scale]] of Western music
* Number of spots most commonly found on [[ladybug]]s
* Atomic number for [[nitrogen]]
* Number of [[diatomic molecule]]s
* Seven basic [[crystal systems]]
* Seven basic colours of the [[rainbow]]


===In psychology===
[[File:Hand Written 7.svg|left|x50px]] Most people in Continental Europe<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Aamulehti: Opetushallitus harkitsee numero 7 viivan palauttamista |author=Eeva Törmänen |date=September 8, 2011 |journal=Tekniikka & Talous |url=http://www.tekniikkatalous.fi/viihde/aamulehti+opetushallitus+harkitsee+numero+7+viivan+palauttamista/a682831 |language=Finnish }}</ref> and increasingly in the UK and Ireland as well as Latin America write 7 with a line in the middle ("<s>7</s>"), sometimes with the top line crooked. The line through the middle is useful to clearly differentiate the character from the [[1 (number)|number one]], as these can appear similar when written in certain styles of handwriting. This glyph is used in official handwriting rules for primary school in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, other Slavic countries,<ref>[http://www.adu.by/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=858 "Education writing numerals in grade 1."](Russian)</ref> as well as in France, Belgium, Finland,<ref>{{Cite journal |title= "Nenosen seiska" teki paluun: Tiesitkö, mistä poikkiviiva on peräisin? |author=Elli Harju |date=August 6, 2015 |journal=Iltalehti |url=http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/2015080620139397_uu.shtml |language=Finnish }}</ref> Romania, Germany and Hungary.<ref>[http://www.pour-enfants.fr/jeux-imprimer/apprendre/les-chiffres/ecrire-les-chiffres.png "Example of teaching materials for pre-schoolers"](French)</ref>{{failed verification|date=April 2016}}
* [[The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two|Seven, plus or minus two]] as a model of [[working memory]]
* Seven [[psychological types]] called the [[Seven Rays#In Theosophy|Seven Rays]] in the teachings of [[Alice A. Bailey]]
* In Western culture, seven is consistently listed as people's favorite number<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gonzalez |first1=Robbie |title=Why Do People Love The Number Seven? |url=https://gizmodo.com/why-do-people-love-the-number-seven-so-much-1666353786 |website=Gizmodo |date=4 December 2014 |access-date=20 February 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Bellos |first1=Alex |title=The World's Most Popular Numbers [Excerpt] |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/most-popular-numbers-grapes-of-math/ |website=Scientific American |access-date=20 February 2022}}</ref>
* When guessing numbers 1–10, the number 7 is most likely to be picked<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kubovy |first1=Michael |last2=Psotka |first2=Joseph |title=The predominance of seven and the apparent spontaneity of numerical choices. |journal=Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance |date=May 1976 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=291–294 |doi=10.1037/0096-1523.2.2.291 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232582800 |access-date=20 February 2022}}</ref>
* [[Seven-year itch (idiom)|Seven-year itch]], a term that suggests that happiness in a marriage declines after around seven years


==Classical antiquity==
==Automotive and transportation==
The [[Pythagoreans]] invested particular numbers with unique spiritual properties. The number seven was considered to be particularly interesting because it consisted of the union of the physical (number [[4]]) with the spiritual (number [[3]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/number-symbolism/7|title=Number symbolism – 7}}</ref> In Pythagorean [[numerology]] the number 7 means spirituality.
{{see also|List of highways numbered 7}}
* [[7 (New York City Subway service)]], a service of the New York City Subway
* [[BMW 7 Series]], a flagship range of luxury vehicles from German automobile manufacturer, [[BMW]].
* The [[Lotus Seven]], a sports car produced by Lotus
* Each airplane in Boeing's line of passenger jets is named with a 3-digit number beginning and ending in 7.


References from classical antiquity to the number seven include:
==Classical world==
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* [[Seven deadly sins]]
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* Seven [[Classical Planets]] ("7 Luminaires")
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* Seven [[Classical planets]] and the derivative [[Seven Heavens]]
* [[Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]]
* Seven [[metals of antiquity]]
* [[Names of the days of the week|Seven days in the week]]
* [[Names of the days of the week|Seven days in the week]]
* [[Rainbow|Seven colors in the rainbow]]
* [[Seven Seas]]
* [[Seven Seas]]
* [[Seven Continents]]
* [[Seven Sages of Greece|Seven Sages]]
* [[Seven against Thebes]]
* [[Seven against Thebes|Seven champions who fought Thebes]]
* [[Seven Kings of Rome]]
* [[Seven hills of Rome]] and [[Seven Kings of Rome]]
* [[Pleiades (Greek mythology)|Seven Sisters]], the daughters of [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]] also known as the [[Pleiades]]
* [[Seven Emperors]] (and period; [[Rome]], history)
** [[Julius Caesar]], [[Augustus]], [[Galba]], [[Hadrian]], [[Nerva]], [[Sallust]], [[Vespasian]]
* [[Seven hills of Istanbul]]
* [[Seven hills of Rome]]
* [[Seven Liberal Arts]]
* [[Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove]] in China
* [[Seven Sages of Greece]]
* [[Saptarishi]] Seven Sages concept in Ancient India
* ''[[Seven Wise Masters]]'', a cycle of medieval stories
* [[Seven Wonders of the ancient world]]
* 7 was considered a God number in ancient [[Egypt]]. The Pharaoh usually ordered things in groups of multiples of 7. For a time, 7 was not even used in writings for the people of Egypt.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mark|first1=Joshua|title=Pharaoh|url=https://www.ancient.eu/pharaoh/|website=Ancient History Encyclopedia|accessdate=25 January 2017}}</ref>
* 7 pure notes in the [[diatonic scale]]


==Commerce and business==
==Religion and mythology==
===Judaism===
* [[7-Eleven]] is the trading name of a chain of convenience stores based in the U.S.
* [[Seven 7 (clothing)|Seven Jeans]], also known as ''Seven '7' for all Mankind'', a brand of designer jeans.


{{Main|Significance of numbers in Judaism}}
==Food and beverages==
* [[7 Up]] is the name of a popular soft drink.


The number seven forms a widespread [[Typology (linguistics)|typological]] pattern within [[Hebrew scripture]], including:
==Media and entertainment==
* Seven days (more precisely [[yom]]) of Creation, leading to the seventh day or [[Biblical Sabbath|Sabbath]] (Genesis 1)
* Seven-fold vengeance visited on upon [[Cain]] for the killing of [[Abel]] (Genesis 4:15)
* Seven pairs of every clean animal loaded onto the ark by Noah (Genesis 7:2)
* Seven years of plenty and seven years of famine in Pharaoh's dream (Genesis 41)
* Seventh son of Jacob, [[Gad (son of Jacob)|Gad]], whose name means good luck (Genesis 46:16)
* Seven times bullock's blood is sprinkled before God (Leviticus 4:6)
* Seven nations God told the [[Israelite]]s they would displace when they entered the land of [[Israel]] (Deuteronomy 7:1)
* Seven days (de jure, but de facto eight days) of the [[Passover]] feast (Exodus 13:3–10)
* Seven-branched [[candelabrum]] or [[Menorah (Temple)|Menorah]] (Exodus 25)
* Seven [[Shofar|trumpets]] played by seven priests for seven days to bring down the walls of Jericho (Joshua 6:8)
* Seven things that are detestable to God (Proverbs 6:16–19)
* Seven Pillars of the [[House of Wisdom]] (Proverbs 9:1)
* Seven archangels in the deuterocanonical [[Book of Tobit]] (12:15)


References to the number seven in Jewish knowledge and practice include:
===Film===
* Seven divisions of the weekly readings or [[Torah reading|aliyah]] of the [[Torah]]
* Seven [[Aliyah (Torah)|aliyot]] on Shabbat
* Seven blessings recited under the [[Jewish view of marriage|chuppah]] during a Jewish wedding ceremony
* Seven days of festive meals for a Jewish bride and groom after their wedding, known as Sheva Berachot or Seven Blessings
* Seven [[Sukkot#Prayers|Ushpizzin]] prayers to the Jewish patriarchs during the holiday of [[Sukkot]]


===Christianity===
* [[Seven Arts Productions]]
Following the tradition of the [[Hebrew Bible]], the [[New Testament]] likewise uses the number seven as part of a [[Typology (linguistics)|typological]] pattern:
* [[Seven Arts Pictures]]
* [[Seven (1995 film)|Se7en]], also just called Seven is a 1995 movie about a serial killer basing his murders and victims on the seven deadly sins.


[[File:Schnorr von Carolsfeld Bibel in Bildern 1860 236.png|thumb|right|200px|Seven lampstands in ''The Vision of John on Patmos'' by [[Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld]], 1860]]
====Characters====
* [[James Bond]]'s secret agent number is 007
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' features a character named [[Seven of Nine]].
* The ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "[[Assignment: Earth]]" features a character named Gary Seven.

====Titles====
;Films
* ''[[Seven Chances]]'' (1925) starring [[Buster Keaton]]
* The [[Disney]] film [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' (1937)
* ''[[Seven Sinners (1940 film)|Seven Sinners]]'' (1940) directed by [[Tay Garnett]], starring [[Marlene Dietrich]]
* The musical film ''[[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (film)|Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]]'' (1954)
* The ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' (1954) by [[Akira Kurosawa]] starring [[Toshiro Mifune]]
* The [[Marilyn Monroe]] film ''[[The Seven Year Itch]]'' (1955) which is famous for her white dress billowing up from a grate
* The [[Sweden|Swedish]] film ''[[The Seventh Seal]]'' (1957) directed by [[Ingmar Bergman]]
* The American [[western (genre)|western film]] ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'' (1960) starring [[Yul Brynner]]
* "[[7 Faces of Dr. Lao]]" (1964) starring [[Tony Randall]].
* "[[Seven Days in May]]" (1964( starring [[Burt Lancaster]], [[Kirk Douglas]] and [[Fredric March]].
* ''[[The Seventh Sign]]'' (1988), directed by [[Carl Schultz]] and starring [[Jürgen Prochnow]] and [[Demi Moore]]
* ''[[Seven (1995 film)|Seven]]'' (1995) by [[David Fincher]] and starring [[Brad Pitt]] and [[Morgan Freeman]]
* ''[[Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)|Seven Years in Tibet]]'' (1997), directed by [[Jean-Jacques Annaud]]
* ''[[Seven Pounds]]'' (2008), starring [[Will Smith]]

===Games===
* [[Lotto Super 7]], a Canadian-lottery game that had its final drawing September 18, 2009.
* [[Sevens (card game)|Sevens]], a card game
* Seven is the sum of any two opposite sides on a standard six-sided [[dice]].
* In the game of craps, a dice roll of 7 on the come-out constitutes a “natural” and the Pass line wins immediately. However, if the shooter (dice thrower) rolls a 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 on the come-out roll, that number becomes his “point”. Now, the shooter must repeat his point before he throws a seven. If he repeats his point, the Pass line wins. If he rolls a seven, not only does the Pass line lose, the shooter loses control of the dice. This is called a “seven-out”.

====Video games====
* ''[[The 7th Guest]]'', produced by Trilobyte and released by Virgin Games in 1993, is an FMV-based puzzle horror video game.
* "The 7" are a group of deadly mercenaries that kidnap the protagonist's family in the video game ''[[Kane & Lynch: Dead Men]]''.
* In the ''[[Killer7]]'' game, the number of individual personalities serving Harman Smith as part of the group of assassins called the [[Killer7]]
* In ''[[999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors]]'', one of the characters goes by the code name "Seven".
* In the ''[[Fallen London]]'' story ''Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name'', the number 7 is a recurring theme.
* ''[[Mario Kart 7]]'', published by Nintendo and developed by Retro Studios, is a kart racing video game.

===Literature===
* ''[[As You Like It]]'' by [[William Shakespeare]]'s contains Shakespeare's [[All the world's a stage|7 Ages of Man]] theory.
* In ''[[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'', the novel by [[Toni Morrison]], the number seven seems to have recurring significance, Beloved has seven letters, 124 adds up to seven, each chapter begins on a number containing seven, and the second chapter contains seven parts.
* The original British version of [[Anthony Burgess]]' novel ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' is split into three sections of seven chapters.
* In the first of the three ''[[Deltora Quest (series)|Deltora Quest]]'' series of books by [[Emily Rodda]], the protagonist must collect the seven gems of the fabled Belt of Deltora: topaz, ruby, opal, lapis lazuli, emerald, amethyst, and diamond. Each of the seven gems are guarded by one of seven guardians located in one of the seven locations around Deltora: The Forests of Silence, Lake of Tears, City of the Rats, The Shifting Sands, Dread Mountain, Maze of the Beast, and Valley of the Lost.
* In the ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' series, there are 7 crystalline spheres known as the Dragon balls. Each Dragon ball has a certain number of stars on it displaying its respective number in the set.
* The manga ''[[Eureka Seven]]'', based on the anime series
* In ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' ([[Hokuto no Ken]]), the main character, [[Kenshiro]], is also known as "the man with seven wounds" for the seven scars on his body in the shape of the [[Big Dipper]].
* In the ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' manga series, the four beast gods each have seven warriors, the Genbu Seven, the Byakko Seven, the Seiryuu Seven, and the Suzaku Seven.
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series of novels by [[J.K. Rowling]], seven is said to be the most powerfully [[Magic (Harry Potter)|magical]] number. There are a number of references to seven in ''Harry Potter'': there are a total of seven books in the series; [[Ginny Weasley]] is the seventh child and only daughter of the Weasley family; [[Harry Potter (character)|Harry Potter]] was born in July, the seventh month of the year; Wizarding students must complete seven years of school at [[Hogwarts]]; There are seven secret passages leading out of [[Hogwarts]]; Seven is also the number on the back of [[Harry Potter's]] Quidditch robes ([[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)|''Prisoner of Azkaban'' movie]]). Professor Moody was also hidden in a chest with an underground cubby, which was locked with seven locks [[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]. In [[Quidditch]] each team consists of seven players. Chapter four of [[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Book 7]] is titled "The Seven Potters". Lord Voldemort planned on making six [[Horcruxes]] (objects containing parts of his soul), so that his soul would exist in seven parts, but made an extra one, making a total of seven Horcruxes.
* In the ''[[InuYasha]]'' series, the [[Shichinintai]] are, as their name says, a band of seven mercenaries.
* The Seven Rings of the [[Vongola Family]] in ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'': Sky, Storm, Rain, Sun, Thunder, Mist, and Cloud.
* In ''[[The Lost Years of Merlin]]'' series, a book is titled "The Seven Songs of Merlin"
* The character 7 (Nana) and the organization Septimal Moon in [[Loveless (manga)|''Loveless'' (manga)]]
* In the "[[Nana (manga)|Nana]]'' manga series, there are many recurrent instances of the number seven ("nana" is Japanese for "seven"), including the name of both main characters.
* Team 7 consists of the main characters in ''[[Naruto]]'': [[Naruto Uzumaki]], [[Sasuke Uchiha]], [[Kakashi Hatake]], and [[Sakura Haruno]]. Later in the series, [[List of Naruto characters|Sai]] joined team 7 after Sasuke left [[Konohagakure]].
* One of the Tailed Beasts, in the unnamed ''[[Naruto]]'' universe, which is the Seven-Tailed beast, and a giant [[Kabutomushi]], was revealed to be named ''Chōmei'', and the jinchuriki host to the young kunoichi Fū. Has six dragonfly like wings that makes up six of its tails, and a long stem that also makes up its actual tail.
* In the ''[[One Piece]]'' series, the [[Shichibukai]] (literally, "Seven Military Seas", known in the English versions as the "Seven Warlords of the Sea") are seven powerful pirates who [[privateer|work for the government]].
* ''The Saga of Seven Suns'', a series of seven novels by [[Kevin J. Anderson]].
* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[The Sandman (Vertigo)|Sandman]]'' series, there are 7 Endless: Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Despair, Desire and Delirium.
* ''[[The Secret Seven]]'', name of a children's adventure book by [[Enid Blyton]]
* In the ''[[Septimus Heap]]'' series, Septimus Is the seventh son of a seventh son, 7 is believed to be the most magykal number. There will also be 7 books in the series, along with many other things relating to the number 7.
* [[Aleksis Kivi]]'s "[[Seven Brothers]]", the most famous book of Finnish literature
* ''[[The Seven Dials Mystery]]'' by [[Agatha Christie]]
* ''[[The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People]]'', a book by [[Stephen Covey]]
* ''[[Seven Pillars of Wisdom]]'', a book written by [[T.E. Lawrence]]
* The book ''[[Seven Years in Tibet]]''
* The novel ''[[Seven Days in May]]'', written by Fletcher Knebel
* In ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', also a Tolkien work, there are seven Lords of the [[Vala (Middle-earth)|Valar]], and seven Ladies of the Valar; [[Fëanor]], a central character, has seven sons: [[Maedhros]], [[Maglor]], [[Celegorm]], [[Curufin]], [[Caranthir]], [[Amrod]], and [[Amras]].
* In George R.R. Martin's ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', seven gods, the Mother, the Father, the Warrior, the Crone, the Smith, the Maiden, and the Stranger, are worshipped in the land of [[Westeros]], which is made up of seven former kingdoms and often called the Seven Kingdoms. The Seven are the primary deities of Westeros.
* In [[W. E. B. Du Bois]]'s book ''[[The Souls of Black Folk]]'', he refers to "the Negro" as "the seventh son".
* In ''[[The Tales of Alvin Maker]]'', an alternate history fantasy series by [[Orson Scott Card]], seventh sons are imbued with special powers, referred to as "knacks", over the physical world. The powers of a seventh son of a seventh son, the birthright of the series' main character, Alvin Smith, are especially pronounced. Men who wield these powers to create are referred to as "Makers."
* In ''[[Toaru Majutsu no Index]]'', there are a total of seven Level 5 espers: Accelerator, Kakine Teitoku, Misaka Mikoto, Mugino Shizuri, Shokuhou Misaki, an unknown esper and Sogiita Gunha.
* In ''[[The Two Towers]]'', the second volume of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', the following poem appears: "Tall ships and tall kings/Three times three/What brought they from the foundered land/Over the flowing sea?/Seven stars and seven stones/And one white tree." The "foundered land" is [[Númenor]], and the "Seven Stars" are unknown, but they may refer to a constellation, the Sickle of the Valar. The Seven Stones are the ''[[palantír]]i'', the seeing-stones. The number seven was also significant to Dwarvish culture as portrayed by Tolkien: there were seven fathers of the Dwarves (as recounted in ''The Silmarillion'') and the [[Dwarf (Middle-earth)|Dwarves]] were later given seven rings by Sauron (according to ''The Lord of the Rings'').
* David Eastis authored two books about the popular number seven both with the title "7".
* Jackie Leo wrote "Seven".
* ''[[We are Seven]]'' by [[William Wordsworth]]
* In ''The Owl Keeper]]'', the owl keeper (by Christine Brodien-Jones) is said to be born on the 7th day of the 7th month at 7 past midnight.
* Marina or [[List of Lorien Legacies characters#Number Seven|Number Seven]] is a character in the book series ''[[The Lorien Legacies]]''.
* ''[[The Revenge of Seven]]'' by Pittacus Lore
* In Rick Riordan's series ''[[The Heroes of Olympus]]'' there are seven heroes of the Great Prophecy: Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Leo Valdez, Hazel Levesque, and Frank Zhang.

===Music===
* The number of notes in the traditional Western diatonic scale (major or minor)
* In music, the Roman numeral vii is the [[leading tone]] (vii{{music|dimdeg}}) or [[subtonic]] (VII) [[scale degree]], [[chord (music)|chord]] ([[leading-tone seventh chord]] or [[secondary leading-tone chord]]), or [[diatonic function]], when distinguished V = major and v = minor.
* The original diameter in inches of the 45rpm format [[gramophone record]].
* There are seven musicians in a [[septet]] or a septuor.
* There are seven basic ''swaras'' [''saptaswaras''] in Indian Carnatic music
* "[[7 (song)|7]]" is a song by Prince and The New Power Generation, from the 1992 [[Love Symbol Album]].
* ''7'' is a 2003 [[Enrique Iglesias]] album.
* 7 (Mick Thompson) is one of the guitarists for popular metal band Slipknot.
* ''[[Sweet 7]]'' is an album by Sugababes
* The number of [[dastgah]]s in Persian traditional music
* 'Seventh son of a Seventh son' is the 7th album of the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, brought out in 1988
* ''[[Sevens (album)|Sevens]]'' is the 7th album by Country singer [[Garth Brooks]], released in 1997, consisting of 14 songs(2 sets of 7).
* "Seven" is a song by Megadeth on their 1999 album Risk
* UK-based alt-rock band, ''Take The Seven'' (TTVII).
* "The Munificent Seven" is the appended parenthetical title for the song "Love Is Stronger Than Justice" on Sting's 1993 album Ten Summoner's Tales
* Seven is a song on David Bowie's album ''[[Hours (David Bowie album)|Hours]]''
* Seven days is a song of Sting in his album 'Ten Summoner's Tales
* [[Seven Swans]] is the name of the 2004 album by [[Sufjan Stevens]].

===Sports===
* In the [[National Hockey League|NHL]], [[Major League Baseball|MLB]], and [[National Basketball Association|NBA]], the maximum number of games played in a playoff series.
* The jersey number 7 has been retired by several [[Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada|North American sports]] teams in honor of past playing greats or other key figures:
** [[Major League Baseball]]
*** The [[Houston Astros]], for [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Hall of Famer]] [[Craig Biggio]].
*** The [[New York Yankees]], for Hall of Famer [[Mickey Mantle]].
** [[National Football League]]:
*** The [[Chicago Bears]], for [[Pro Football Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] player, coach, and owner [[George Halas]].
*** The [[Denver Broncos]], for Hall of Famer [[John Elway]].
*** The [[Detroit Lions]], for Hall of Famer [[Dutch Clark]].
*** The [[Los Angeles Rams]], for Hall of Famer [[Bob Waterfield]].
*** The [[New York Giants]], for Hall of Famer [[Mel Hein]].
** [[National Basketball Association]]
*** The [[Cleveland Cavaliers]], for [[Bingo Smith]].
*** The [[New Orleans Hornets]], for [[Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame|Hall of Famer]] [[Pete Maravich]]. He died in January 1988, before the franchise began as the Charlotte Hornets, but his number was retired based on his years in the city with the New Orleans Jazz.
*** The [[Phoenix Suns]], for [[Kevin Johnson]].
*** The [[Utah Jazz]], also for Maravich. He briefly played with the team while it was in Utah, and played five seasons with the team in its previous location of New Orleans.
** [[National Hockey League]]
*** The [[Boston Bruins]], for [[Hockey Hall of Fame|Hall of Famer]] [[Phil Esposito]].
*** The [[Buffalo Sabres]], for [[Rick Martin]].
*** The [[Dallas Stars]], for [[Neal Broten]].
*** The [[Detroit Red Wings]], for Hall of Famer [[Ted Lindsay]].
*** The [[Edmonton Oilers]], for Hall of Famer [[Paul Coffey]].
*** The [[Montreal Canadiens]], for Hall of Famer [[Howie Morenz]].
*** The [[New York Rangers]], for Hall of Famer [[Rod Gilbert]].
*** The [[Philadelphia Flyers]], for Hall of Famer [[Bill Barber]].
*** The [[Washington Capitals]], for [[Yvon Labre]].
*** The [[Toronto Maple Leafs]] have a policy of not retiring numbers unless the player honoured either died or suffered a career-ending incident while a member of the team. Other players whose numbers would otherwise be retired instead have their numbers enshrined by the team as "Honoured Numbers", which remain in circulation for future players. The number 7 is currently honoured for Hall of Famers [[King Clancy]] and [[Tim Horton]].

;Baseball
* In high school [[baseball]], a regulation game lasts seven [[innings]].
* In [[baseball]], the [[Seventh-inning stretch|7th Inning stretch]] attributed to the 27th U.S. President, William Howard Taft.
* In scoring [[baseball]], seven represents the [[left fielder]]'s position.

;Football and soccer
* In [[association football]], the right midfielder traditionally wears the number 7
* In [[American football|American]] and [[Canadian football]], a team scores 7 points by scoring a [[touchdown]] and kicking the [[extra point]].
* In [[American football|American]] and [[Canadian football]], the minimum number of players who, by rule, must be lined up at the line of scrimmage on offense (otherwise the team commits the foul of [[illegal formation]])

;Frisbee and Ultimate Frisbee
* In [[Ultimate (sport)|Ultimate Frisbee]], the number of players on the field for each team

;Handball
* In [[team handball]], the number of players on each team including the [[goalkeeper]]

;Motor sports
* In [[Formula 1]] the #7 is owned by 2007 World Champion [[Kimi Räikkönen]]
* In [[motorcycling]], the racing number for British World Champion [[Barry Sheene]]
* In [[NASCAR]]:
** In the [[Sprint Cup Series]], the #7 car is currently owned by [[Robby Gordon Motorsports]]. Team owner [[Robby Gordon]], plus other team drivers, race a part-time schedule in this car.
** In the [[Nationwide Series]], the #7 car is currently owned by [[JR Motorsports]]. [[Danica Patrick]], who began racing in that car late in the 2011 season, took over the full-time ride in the 2012 season.
* In the [[IndyCar Series]], the #7 car is currently owned by [[Andretti Autosport]]. Patirck drove full-time in this car through the 2011 season before moving to NASCAR.
* the Mini7 the longest single marque racing series, started in 1967.
;Rugby
:;Rugby league
::*The jersey number 7 is worn by the starting scrum-half/halfback in most competitions (but not in the European [[Super League]], which uses static squad numbering).
::*7, The number of consecutive State of Origin Series wins (2006-2012) by Queensland against New South Wales in Australia. The highest since the inception of the State of Origin Series concept which commenced in 1980.
:;Rugby union
::*The jersey number 7 is worn by the starting openside flanker. (Some teams use "left" and "right" flankers instead of "openside" and "blindside", with 7 being worn by the starting right flanker.)
::*A converted try is worth 7 points. This number is also significant because the [[Rugby union bonus points system|standard bonus points system]] used in most competitions awards 1 bonus point to a team that loses by 7 points or less.
::* The [[IRB Sevens World Series]], an annual competition for national teams in rugby union sevens (see below)
::* The [[Rugby World Cup Sevens]], the World Cup for the union version of Sevens
:;Cross-code
::* [[Rugby sevens]], a variant of union and league that contains only seven players per side instead of the standard 15 (union) or 13 (league)

;Softball
* A regulation game in [[softball]] consists of seven innings.

;Track and field
* In [[cross country running]], a team traditionally consists of seven athletes
* A [[heptathlon]] is a combined event of seven running, jumping and throwing disciplines for both men's and women's [[Athletics (sport)|athletics]].

;Water polo
* Each team is allowed to have a maximum of seven players, one of them a goalkeeper, in the playing area of the pool at any given time.

===Television===

====Networks and stations====
* The [[circle 7 logo]] used by numerous [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] network [[O&O]] stations in the U.S. (In the late 1940s, ABC arranged for its five original, founding O&O TV stations to broadcast on channel 7.)
* Maximum number of VHF broadcast channels available in any TV market in the United States of America; they are channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 in the [[New York-Newark SMSA|Greater New York City]] and [[Los Angeles-Long Beach SMSA]]s.
* [[ProSieben]] (''sieben'' being [[German language|German]] for seven), a television network in Germany
* [[Seven Network]], a television network in [[Australia]].
*[[Trans7]] (formerly TV7 before taken over by Trans Corporation), a television network in Indonesia.

====Programs====
* ''[[7 Days (New Zealand)|7 Days]]'', a comedy gameshow based on news stories from New Zealand.
* The name of a television show ''[[7th Heaven (TV series)|7th Heaven]]''.
* The name of a ''[[The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' cartoon episode, "[[7 Continents for 7 Koopas]]".
* ''[[Blake's 7]]'' was a [[BBC television drama|BBC]] [[science fiction]] series that ran from 1978 to 1981
* ''[[Eureka Seven]]'', a science fiction and romance anime.
* In ''[[Red Dwarf|Red Dwarf II]]'' episode "[[Parallel Universe (Red Dwarf)|Parallel Universe]]", [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]] forgets the number 7 in a countdown for the Holly Hop Drive. After [[Arnold Rimmer|Rimmer]] reminds him, he admits he has "a blind spot for sevens".
* Seven, an episodic character from the sitcom ''[[Married... with Children]]''.
* In the ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode "[[The Seven]]", Seven is the name [[George Costanza]] desires to give his first-born, having allegedly promised this to the [[widow]] of baseball great [[Mickey Mantle]] (whose uniform number was 7). George is enraged, however, when his fiance's cousin and spouse copy the idea and give the name to their child.
* ''[[Seven Days (TV series)|Seven Days]]'', a science fiction show about the NSA using time travel.
* The name of one of the monsters in the cartoon television show ''[[Seven Little Monsters (TV series)|Seven Little Monsters]]''.
* In ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', [[Seven of Nine]] (also called Seven for short) is one of the crewmembers
* The ''[[Ultra Series]]'' has two heroes with "Seven" in their name: Ultra Seven and [[Ultraman Neos|Ultra Seven-21]].
* ''[[Ultra Seven]]'', a television series aired in 1967, and the superhero of the same name. He is the honorary seventh member of the Ultra Garrison
* In [[House of Anubis]] (on Nickelodeon), the "chosen one" has to be born on 7/7 (July 7) at 7:00am.
* [[George Carlin]] in what is perhaps his best-known routine, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television".
* ''[[Lucky 7 (TV series)|Lucky 7]]'': Short-lived ABC TV series (premiered 2013) about seven people who win the lottery.
* The last episode of [[American Horror Story: Coven]] is named The Seven Wonders, after the seven great powers a witch should perform to become the leader or "Supreme" of the generation: Telekinesis, Concilium, Descensum, Divination, Transmutation, Vitalum Vitalis and Pyrokinesis.
* In the anime series ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters]]'', there are seven magical ancient Egyptian artefacts, known as the Millenium Items (Puzzle, Eye, Ring, Key, Scale, Rod and Necklace), which play a significant role in the storyline of the show throughout its duration.
* The number 7 is the racing number of [[Herbie]]'s girlfriend, Giselle, in the movie [[Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo]]

==Places==
* The traditional count of [[Basque Country (historical territory)|Basque provinces]] as expressed in the slogan ''[[Zazpiak Bat]]'', translates as "the seven [are] one" and refers to the seven Basque traditional provinces..
* The figurative number of [[seven seas|seas]]
* The Seven Virgins mountain range in [[Sri Lanka]], which was the scene of an [[air disaster]] on December 4, 1974, involving a DC-8 Series 55F passenger jetliner operated by the charter company [[Martinair]], which left 191 dead.
* [[The Sevens (stadium)|The Sevens]] (sometimes typeset as "7he Sevens"), a rugby union stadium in [[Dubai]], [[United Arab Emirates|UAE]] and home to the [[Dubai Sevens]] tournament

==Religion and mythology==

===Old Testament===
* Seven Hebrew words of Bereishit 1:1 / [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] 1:1 (28 letters).
[[File:Seven Days of Creation - 1765.jpg|thumb|200px|''Seven Days of Creation'' - 1765 book]]
The number seven in the seven days of Creation is [[Typology (linguistics)|typological]] and the number seven appears commonly elsewhere in the Bible. These include:
* Seven days of Creation (Genesis 1) e.g., [[God]] rested on and sanctified the seventh day ([[Biblical Sabbath|Sabbath]])
* Anyone who dares to kill [[Cain]] 'will suffer vengeance seven times over' (Genesis 4:15)
* [[Lamech (descendant of Cain)|Lamech]] in his "Song of the Sword" claims that 'if Cain shall be avenged sevenfold', he himself shall be 'seventy-sevenfold' (Genesis 4:24)
* [[Noah]] is commanded to bring seven pairs of every clean animal onto the ark (Genesis 7:2)
* Seven years of plenty and seven years of famine in Pharaoh's dream (Genesis 41)
* In regards to the sin sacrifice, the [[kohen|anointed priest]] was to sprinkle the bullock's blood seven times before the lord (Leviticus 4:6)
* Seven days of the feast of Passover (Exodus 13:3–10)
* Seven-day week and the pattern concerning distribution and use of [[manna]] (Exodus 16)
* The [[Menorah (Temple)|Menorah]] ({{lang-he|מנורה}}), is a seven-branched [[candelabrum]] lit by [[olive oil]] in the [[Tabernacle]] and the [[Temple in Jerusalem]] (Exodus 25)
* Seven year cycle around the years of Jubilee (Leviticus 25)
* Jericho's walls fall on the seventh day after seven priests with seven trumpets march around the city seven times (Joshua 6:8)
* King [[David]] had seven older brothers (1 Samuel 16)
* The child sneezed seven times after Elisha raised him from the dead (2 Kings 4:35)
* Seven things that are detestable to the LORD (Proverbs 6:16–19)
* Seven Pillars of the House of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1)
* The [[woman with seven sons]] in [[2 Maccabees]].


===New Testament===
* Seven loaves [[Feeding the multitude|multiplied into seven basketfuls]] of surplus (Matthew 15:32–37)
* Seven loaves [[Feeding the multitude|multiplied into seven basketfuls]] of surplus (Matthew 15:32–37)
* Seven [[demons]] were driven out of [[Mary Magdalene]] (Luke 8:2)
* Peter asked [[Jesus]] if he should forgive those who sinned against him up to 7 times; Jesus responded by saying to forgive them 'seventy times seven times', remembering so the curse of Cain and the song of Lamech in Genesis 4.<ref><sup>21</sup>Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, 'Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?' <sup>22</sup>Jesus answered, 'I tell you, not seven times, but seventy times seven.'</ref>
* [[Sayings of Jesus on the cross|Seven last sayings]] of Jesus on the cross
* Seven [[demons]] were driven out of [[Mary Magdelene]]. (Luke 8:2).
* The [[sayings of Jesus on the cross|seven last sayings]] of Jesus on the cross.
* Seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom (Acts 6:3)
* Seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom (Acts 6:3)
* In the [[Book of Revelation]], seven is a central figure of quantities: [[Seven Spirits of God]], [[Seven churches of Asia|Seven Churches]] (to which the book is addressed);
* [[Seven Spirits of God]], [[Seven churches of Asia|Seven Churches]] and [[Seven Seals]] in the [[Book of Revelation]]
* Seven of the following appear in Revelation: golden lampstands(1:12), stars(1:16), torches of fire(4:5) [[Seven Seals]](5:1), angels and their trumpets(8:2), last plagues(15:1), golden bowls(15:7), thunders(10:3), horns and eyes(5:6), diadems(12:3) and kings(17:10). See [[:Category:Seven in the Book of Revelation]].


Other sevens in Christian knowledge and practice include:
References to the number seven in Christian knowledge and practice include:
* The [[Works of Mercy|Seven Corporal Acts of Mercy]] and [[Works of Mercy|Seven Spiritual Acts of Mercy]] of Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other traditions
* The [[Seven deadly sins]]: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride
* [[Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit]]
* [[Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit]]
* [[Works of Mercy|Seven Corporal Acts of Mercy]] and [[Works of Mercy|Seven Spiritual Acts of Mercy]]
* The [[Seven Joys of the Virgin]] Mary, of Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other traditions
* [[Seven deadly sins]]: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride, and seven terraces of Mount [[Purgatory]]
* The Seven [[Sacraments]] in the Catholic faith (though some traditions assign a different number)
* [[Seven Virtues]]: chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, kindness, patience, and humility
* The [[Our Lady of Sorrows|Seven Sorrows of the Virgin]] Mary, of Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other traditions
* [[Seven Joys of the Virgin|Seven Joys]] and [[Our Lady of Sorrows|Seven Sorrows]] of the Virgin Mary
* There are seven [[suicide]]s mentioned in the Bible ([[Old Testament|OT]] and [[New Testament|NT]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bible.org/illus.php?topic_id=1510 |title=Sermon Illustrations |publisher=Bible.org |date= |accessdate=2012-09-07}}</ref>
* [[Seven Sleepers]] of Christian myth
* The seven terraces of Mount [[Purgatory]] (one per deadly sin)
* Seven [[Sacraments]] in the Catholic Church (though some traditions assign a different number)
* The [[Seven Virtues]]: chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, kindness, patience, and humility
* In the [[genealogy]] in the [[Gospel of Luke]], Jesus is 77th in a direct line
* The number of heads of the three beasts (7 × 10 × 7 + 7 × 10 × 10 + 7 × 10 = 1260) of the [[Book of Revelation]], and the [[seven seals]]

===Hinduism===
* The Sanskrit word ''sapta'' refers to number seven.
* Indian Music has "[[Saptak]] [[Swaras]]," seven octats (''sa re ga ma pa dha ni'') which are basics of music, using which hundreds of [[Rāga|Ragas]] are composed.
* Celestial group of seven stars (7 [[Classical Planets]]) are named as "[[Saptarshi|Sapta Rishi]]" based on the seven great saints.
* Seven Promises [Saptapadi], Seven Rounds in Hindu Wedding and Seven Reincarnation
* According to Hinduism, there are seven worlds in the universe, seven seas in the world and seven Rishies (seven gurus) called sapta rishis.
* Seven hills at tirumala also known as Yedu Kondalavadu [in Telugu], ezhu malaiyan [in Tamil] means Sevenhills God
* There are 7 [[Chakras]] in the basic model used in various eastern traditions and philosophies.


===Islam===
===Islam===
References to the number seven in Islamic knowledge and practice include:
* The number of [[ayat]] in [[sura]]t [[al-Fatiha]]
* Seven is the first number to be mentioned in [[Qur'an|Quran]]<ref>{{qref|2|29|pl=y}}</ref>
* The number of layers of the Earth in [[Islam]]ic religion is seven
* Seven [[ayat]] in [[Surah al-Fatiha]], the first chapter of the [[Qur'an|Quran]]
* The number of skies in [[Islam]]ic religion is seven
* Seven [[Tawaf|circumambulations]] of Muslim pilgrims around the [[Kaaba]] in [[Mecca]] during the [[Hajj]] and the [[Umrah]]
* The number of circumambulations ([[Tawaf]]) that are made around the [[Kaaba]]
* The number of walks between Al-Safa and Al-Marwah mountains—that is travelling back and forth—seven times during the ritual pilgrimages of Hajj and Umrah
* Seven walks between [[Al-Safa and Al-Marwah]] performed Muslim pilgrims during the [[Hajj]] and the [[Umrah]]
* Seven doors to [[Jahannam|hell]]
* The number of [[heaven]]s in [[Islam]]ic religion, i.e. levels in heaven.
* [[Seven Heavens#Islam|Seven heavens]] (plural of sky) mentioned in Quran <ref>{{qref|65|12|pl=y}}</ref>
* The number of hells in hell is also seven i.e. levels in hell.
* Night Journey to the Seventh Heaven, (reported ascension to heaven to meet God) [[Isra' and Mi'raj]] in [[Surat al-Isra'|Surah Al-Isra']].
* The number of doors to hell is seven (for heaven the number of doors is eight).
* Seventh day [[Naming ceremony#Islam|naming ceremony]] held for babies
* In Verse 12:46 (see [[Islamic view of Joseph]]) of the Quran, Joseph (Yusef) is asked to interpret the King's dream where seven fat cows were dreamt to have been devoured by seven skinny cows and seven green spikes, and others shrivelled.
*Seven [[Takbir]] at the first [[rak'a]] of the [[Eid prayers]]
* The number of the big sins or vices is seven which are from a [[Hadith]] of the prophet Mohamed : "Avoid the seven sins polytheism, witchcraft, the killing of the soul which Allah has forbidden except by right, consuming [[riba]], consuming the wealth of the orphan, to escape from the battles and slandering chaste women"
*Seven pebble is used during the ritual of [[Stoning of the Devil|throwing of the jamarāt]]
* A [[Naming ceremony#Islam|naming ceremony]] is held for babies on their seventh day of life
*Seven [[Islamic views on sin|sins]] that doom one to [[Hell]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=n.d. |title=Sunan an-Nasa'i 3671 |url=https://sunnah.com/nasai/30/61 |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=sunnah.com }}</ref>
*Seven [[Ajwa (date)|Ajwa]] [[Date palm|dates]] in the morning to avoid being poisoned or [[Islam and magic|bewitched]] that day<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-18 |title=IRSYAD HUKUM SIRI KE-347 : FADILAT MEMAKAN TUJUH BIJI KURMA, ADAKAH KHUSUS BUAT KURMA AJWAH MADINAH SAHAJA ATAU UMUM BUAT SEMUA JENIS KURMA? |url=https://muftiwp.gov.my/en/artikel/irsyad-fatwa/irsyad-fatwa-umum-cat/3898-irsyad-al-fatwa-siri-ke-347-fadilat-memakan-tujuh-biji-kurma-adakah-khusus-buat-kurma-ajwah-madinah-sahaja-atau-umum-buat-semua-jenis-kurma |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=muftiwp.gov.my |language=ms}}</ref>
*seven fat cows eaten up by seven skinny ones; and seven green ears of grain and seven others dry In the dream of the [[king of egypt]]<ref>{{qref|12|43|pl=y}}</ref>
*Seven types of [[Water in fiqh|mutlaq water]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-22 |title=Air Mutlak: Maksud, Jenis & Kegunaan |url=https://ecentral.my/air-mutlak/-mamak-layan-nasi-lemak |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=ecentral |language=ms}}</ref>
*Seven point of body during [[sujud]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-05-17 |title=AL-KAFI #1261: IS THE NOSE INCLUDED AS THE BODY PARTS OF SUJUD (PROSTRATION IN PRAYER)? |url=https://www.muftiwp.gov.my/en/artikel/al-kafi-li-al-fatawi/3408-al-kafi-1261-is-the-nose-included-as-the-body-parts-of-prostration-sujud?fbclid=IwAR0yaJ5CHLNOP6c0cDQs5LhAeF20mtRPhul4hJXXn_APCTpiFpL3fayAhhk |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=muftiwp.gov.my |language=en}}</ref>
*Seven line of sentence in [[adhan]]
*Seven stages of life <ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-11-27 |title=Seven Stages of Life in Islam |url=https://www.islamicity.org/7887/seven-stages-of-life-in-islam/ |access-date=2024-11-11 |website=islamicity }}</ref>
*The first hajj since the [[Hijrah]] at the 7th year of [[Islamic calendar|hijri calendar]]<ref>{{cite book|last= Wan Abdullah |first= Wan Ali Akbar |date=2018 |title= Kurikulum Standard Sekolah Menengah: 3 فنديدين إسلام تیغکتن • pendidikan Islam tingkatan 3
|trans-title= Secondary School Standard Curriculum: form 3 Islamic education • form 3 islamic education |url=https://online.anyflip.com/qmkj/yvrq/mobile/ |language=ms |publisher=kementerian pendidikan Malaysia (Malaysian Ministry of Education) |isbn=9789834920814}}</ref>
*The seventh month of [[Islamic calendar|Hijri calendar]] ([[Rajab]]) is one of the [[Sacred months|four scared month in Islam]]
* Seven enunciators of divine revelation (''nāṭiqs'') according to the celebrated [[Fatimid Caliphate|Fatimid]] [[Isma'ilism|Ismaili]] dignitary [[Nasir Khusraw]]<ref>{{Citation|title=Nāṣir-i Khusraw|date=2001|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780755610068.ch-008|work=An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia|pages=305–361 |publisher=I.B.Tauris|doi=10.5040/9780755610068.ch-008|isbn=978-1-84511-542-5|access-date=2020-11-17}}</ref>
* Seven layer of earth as mentioned in the Quran<ref>{{qref|65|12|pl=y}}</ref>
* Seven [[children of Muhammad]]<ref>{{Cite web |author=Ahmad jibriel Mohd Yusof |title=Anak nabi kita ada 7 orang |url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=_IwSlXivKMc&si=RP85NLHT4xbiNDDl |access-date=2024-11-11 |date=2015-03-24}}</ref>
* Seven years of abundance and seven of drought in Egypt during the time of [[Joseph in Islam|Yusuf]] (Joseph) as mentioned in the [[Quran]].<ref>{{qref|12|46|c=y}}</ref>


===Judaism===
===Hinduism===
References to the number seven in Hindu knowledge and practice include:
* ''Shiv`a'' (another pronunciation of the Hebrew word for 7—({{Hebrew Name 1|שבעה||"seven"}})), is the number of days of mourning. Hence, one ''sits Shiva''. As in [[Shiva (Judaism)]]
* Seven worlds in the universe and seven seas in the world in Hindu cosmology
* The weekly [[Torah]] portion is divided into seven ''[[Torah reading|aliyahs]]'', and seven Jewish men (or boys over the age of 13 who are considered men; Bar Mitzvah) are called up for the reading of these aliyahs during ''[[Shabbat]]'' morning services.
* Seven sages or [[Saptarishi]] and their seven wives or Sapta Matrka in [[Hinduism]]
* Seven blessings are recited under the ''[[Jewish view of marriage|chuppah]]'' during a Jewish wedding ceremony.
* Seven [[Chakras]] in eastern philosophy
* A Jewish bride and groom are feted with seven days of festive meals after their wedding, known as ''Sheva Berachot'' ("Seven Blessings").
* Seven stars in a constellation called "[[Saptarshi|Saptharishi]] Mandalam" in Indian astronomy
* The number of ''[[Sukkot#Prayers|Ushpizzin]]'' (also known as the "Seven Shepherds") who visit the ''sukkah'' during the holiday of [[Sukkot]]: [[Abraham]], [[Isaac]], [[Jacob]], [[Joseph (Hebrew Bible)|Joseph]], [[Moses]], [[Aaron]], and [[David]].
* Seven promises, or [[Saptapadi]], and seven circumambulations around a fire at Hindu weddings
* The number of nations God told the [[Israelite]]s they would displace when they entered the land of [[Israel]] (Deut. 7:1): the [[Biblical Hittites|Hittite]], the [[Girgashite]], the [[Amorite]], the [[Canaan]]ite, the [[Perizzite]], the [[Hivite]], and the [[Jebusite]].
* Seven virgin goddesses or [[Saptha Kannimar Padal|Saptha Kannimar]] worshipped in temples in [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rajarajan |first=R.K.K. |date=2020 |title=Peerless Manifestations of Devī. |url=https://www.academia.edu/44394046 |journal=Carcow Indological Studies (Cracow, Poland) |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=221–243 |doi=10.12797/CIS.22.2020.01.09 |s2cid=226326183 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rajarajan|first=R.K.K.|date=2020|title=Sempiternal "Pattiṉi": Archaic Goddess of the vēṅkai-tree to Avant-garde Acaṉāmpikai|url=https://www.academia.edu/43913587|journal=Studia Orientalia Electronica |volume=8|issue=1|pages=120–144|doi=10.23993/store.84803|s2cid=226373749|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* In [[Breslov (Hasidic dynasty)|Breslov]] tradition, the seven orifices of the face (2 eyes, 2 [[nostril]]s, 2 ears, and the mouth) are called "The Seven Candles."
*Seven hills at [[Tirumala]] known as Yedu Kondalavadu in [[Telugu language|Telugu]], or ezhu malaiyan in [[Tamil language|Tamil]], meaning "Sevenhills God"
* The 7 [[Sephirot]] of primary conscious emotion that are attributes of the creator.
* Seven steps taken by the [[Buddha]] at birth
* Seven divine ancestresses of humankind in [[Khasi people|Khasi]] mythology
* Seven octets or [[Saptak]] [[Swaras]] in Indian Music as the basis for [[Rāga|Ragas]] compositions
* [[Seven Social Sins]] listed by [[Mahatma Gandhi]]


=== [[Tao]]ism ===
===Eastern tradition===
Other references to the number seven in Eastern traditions include:
[[File:Shichi fukujin.jpg|The [[Seven Lucky Gods]] in [[Japanese mythology]]|thumb|300px|right]]
* [[Seven Lucky Gods]] or gods of good [[luck|fortune]] in [[Japanese mythology]]
* [[Seven-Branched Sword]] in Japanese mythology
* [[Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove]] in China
* Seven minor symbols of [[yin and yang|yang]] in Taoist [[yin-yang]]


===Other references===
* Nº of [[Ba Gua|Kan]] (010), [[Ba Xian|Li Tie Guai]], [[West]], [[Pilgrim]], [[Journey to the West]].
Other references to the number seven in traditions from around the world include:
* 7 [[Dragon Ball]]s, 7 Dragons ([[Goku]] 8º).
* Seven [[ROYGBIV|colors in a rainbow]]
* 7 [[Color]]s / 7th [[Wu Xing|Element]] ([[Qi]]):
* The number seven had mystical and religious significance in Mesopotamian culture by the 22nd century BCE at the latest. This was likely because in the Sumerian [[sexagesimal]] number system, dividing by seven was the first division which resulted in infinitely [[repeating fraction]]s.<ref>[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.6246.pdf The Origin of the Mystical Number Seven in Mesopotamian Culture: Division by Seven in the Sexagesimal Number System]</ref>
# Golden Star
* Seven palms in an Egyptian ''[[cubit|Sacred Cubit]]''
# White Clouds
* Seven ranks in [[Mithraism]]
# Blue (Heaven) Sky
* [[Seven hills of Istanbul]]
# B-lack (of Colors) Moon Empty Infinity Space / Earth (where grown Trees).
* Seven islands of [[Atlantis]]
# Green Wood
* Seven [[Cherokee]] clans
# Red (Hell) Fire
* Seven lives of cats in [[Iran]] and [[German language|German]] and [[Romance Languages|Romance]] language-speaking cultures<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1086220/number-symbolism/248164/7 |title=''Encyclopædia Britannica'' "Number Symbolism" |publisher=Britannica.com |access-date=2012-09-07}}</ref>
* 7th Sense of [[Knights of Zodiac]]
* Seven fingers on each hand, seven toes on each foot and seven pupils in each eye of the Irish epic hero [[Cúchulainn]]

* Seventh sons will be [[werewolf|werewolves]] in [[Galicia (Spain)|Galician]] folklore, or the son of a woman and a werewolf in other European folklores
===Astrology===
* [[Seventh son of a seventh son|Seventh sons of a seventh son]] will be magicians with special powers of healing and clairvoyance in some cultures, or vampires in others
* The number of daughters of [[Atlas (mythology)|Atlas]] in the [[Pleiades]] (also called the "[[Pleiades (Greek mythology)|Seven Sisters]]")
* Seven prominent [[Guaraní mythology#Seven legendary monsters|legendary monsters]] in [[Guaraní mythology]]
* The number of saints appearing in a constellation called "Saptharishi Mandalam" in Indian astronomy.
*Seven gateways traversed by [[Inanna]] during her descent into the [[underworld]]

* ''[[Seven Wise Masters]]'', a cycle of medieval stories
===Others===
* Seven sister [[goddess]]es or [[fates]] in [[Baltic mythology]] called the [[List of Lithuanian gods and mythological figures#Gods and goddesses|Deivės Valdytojos]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Klimka|first=Libertas|date=2012-03-01|title=Senosios baltų mitologijos ir religijos likimas|journal=Lituanistica|volume=58|issue=1|doi=10.6001/lituanistica.v58i1.2293|issn=0235-716X}}</ref>

* Seven legendary Cities of Gold, such as [[Quivira and Cíbola|Cibola]], that the Spanish thought existed in South America
;Deity, being, or character
* Seven years spent by [[Thomas the Rhymer]] in the faerie kingdom in the eponymous British folk tale
[[File:Shichi fukujin.jpg|The [[Seven Lucky Gods]] in [[Japanese mythology]]|thumb|400px|left]]
* Seven-year cycle in which the [[Queen of Elphame|Queen of the Fairies]] pays a tithe to [[Hell]] (or possibly [[Hel (location)|Hel]]) in the tale of [[Tam Lin]]
* The [[Seven Lucky Gods]] refer to the seven gods of good [[luck|fortune]] in [[Japanese mythology]].
* ''[[Seven Valleys]]'', a text by the Prophet-Founder [[Bahá'u'lláh]] in the Bahá'í faith
* The number of [[archangels]] according to some systems.
*Seven superuniverses in the cosmology of [[Urantia]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.urantia.org/study-master-universe/chapter-i-creative-thesis-perfection|title=Chapter I. The Creative Thesis of Perfection by William S. Sadler, Jr. – Urantia Book – Urantia Foundation|date=17 August 2011|website=urantia.org}}</ref>
* In Buddhism, [[Buddha]] walked 7 steps at his birth.
* Seven, the sacred number of [[Yemaya]]<ref>[http://santeriachurch.org/the-orishas/yemaya/ Yemaya]. Santeria Church of the Orishas. Retrieved 25 November 2022</ref>
* In [[Khasi people|Khasi]] mythology, the seven divine women who were left behind on earth and became the ancestresses of all humankind.
* Seven holes representing eyes (سبع عيون) in an Assyrian evil eye bead – though occasionally two, and sometimes nine <ref name="Ergil 2021">{{cite web | last=Ergil | first=Leyla Yvonne | title=Turkey's talisman superstitions: Evil eyes, pomegranates and more | website=Daily Sabah | date=2021-06-10 | url=https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/expat-corner/turkeys-talisman-superstitions-evil-eyes-pomegranates-and-more | access-date=2023-04-05}}</ref>
* The number of sleeping men in the Christian myth of the "[[Seven Sleepers]]."
* The number of sages in [[Hindu mythology]]; their wives are the deities referred to as the "Seven Mothers."
* In [[Iran]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1086220/number-symbolism/248164/7 |title='&#39;Encyclopædia Britannica'&#39; "Number Symbolism" |publisher=Britannica.com |date= |accessdate=2012-09-07}}</ref> [[German language|German]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], and other cultures that speak [[Romance Languages]], cats are said to have 7 lives as opposed to [[English language|English]], where cats are said to have 9 lives.
* In [[Irish mythology]], the epic hero [[Cúchulainn]] is associated with the number 7. He has 7 fingers on each hand, 7 toes on each foot, and 7 pupils in each eye. In the Irish epic [[Táin Bó Cúailnge]], Cúchulainn is 7 years old when he receives his first weapons and defeats the armies of the Ulaidh and his son [[Connla]] is 7 years old when he is slain by Cúchulainn in "The Death of Aife's Only Son."
* In [[Galicia (Spain)|Galician]] folklore, a seventh son will be a [[werewolf]]. In other folklores, after six daughters, the seventh child is to be a son and a werewolf. In other European folklores, the [[seventh son of a seventh son]] will be a child with special powers of healing and clairvoyant seeing, and in other cultures that [[seventh son of a seventh son]] would be a vampire.
* In [[Guaraní mythology]], the number of prominent [[Guaraní mythology#Seven legendary monsters|legendary monsters]].
* In the eponymous British folk tale, [[Thomas the Rhymer]] went to live in the faerie kingdom for 7 years.
* [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s list of the destructive Seven Blunders of the World that cause violence: Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, religion without sacrifice and politics without principle.
* The cosmogony of [[Urantia]]<ref>[http://www.urantia.org/study-master-universe/chapter-i-creative-thesis-perfection Urantia Fondation website]</ref> gives an explanation to the sacredness of the number 7 in some religions, including those based on a triple deity: 7 indeed is the number of all the possible combinations of three elements taken one by one, two by two, or by three. It therefore expresses all the associative possibilities of the three fundamental aspects of the absolute (Christian Trinity, for example, or Trimurti in Hinduism) which organizes the Creation. The seventh of these combinations being the one that combines the three aspects, 7 therefore also expresses spiritual achievement.
* In other traditions and teachings, seven is seen as the perfect number that holds creation and the universe together.<ref>Nunitus, Septem (2016). 777: Messages from the Elder Gods (777 Series Book 1). Elder Gods Press. p. 5. ASIN B01I0EUQGA</ref> From the 7 deadly sins to 7 chakras, 7 heavens and 7 planes of creation, this number holds great significance.
* Unconfirmed name of a mid level criminal organization headquartered in the state of [[Texas]].
;Place
* The number of main islands of mythological [[Atlantis]].
* The number of gateways traversed by [[Inanna]] during her descent into the [[underworld]].
* [[Quivira and Cíbola|Cibola]] was one of the legendary Seven Cities of Gold the Spanish thought existed.
* In the Bahá'í faith, the text ''[[Seven Valleys|The Seven Valleys]]'', by the Prophet-Founder [[Bahá'u'lláh]], relates the journey of the soul through the seven "valleys" of Search, Love, Knowledge, Unity, Contentment, Wonderment, and finally True Poverty and Absolute Nothingness.

;Scripture
* [[Circle Seven Koran]], the holy scripture of the Moorish Science Temple of America

;Thing, concept, or symbol
* The [[Seven-Branched Sword]] in Japanese mythology.
* The [[Theosophy|Theosophical]] teachings of [[Alice A. Bailey]] divide the human race into seven [[psychological types]] called the [[Seven Rays#In Theosophy|Seven Rays]], which she calls "the basis of [[New Age]] [[psychology]]".
* The minor symbol number of [[yin and yang|yang]] from the Taoist [[yin-yang]].
* The number of palms in an [[Egypt]]ian ''[[cubit|Sacred Cubit]]''.
* The number of ranks in [[Mithraism]].
* The number seven is of particular significance within [[Cherokee]] cosmology.
* Most likely to be chosen as a favorite number by people around the world.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bellos|first1=Alex|title='Seven' triumphs in poll to discover world’s favourite number|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2014/apr/08/seven-worlds-favourite-number-online-survey|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=9 February 2017|date=8 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Is seven your favorite number? We thought so. Here's what it says about you|url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-04-08/seven-your-favorite-number-we-thought-so-heres-what-it-says-about-you|accessdate=9 February 2017|work=Public Radio International|date=2014-04-08}}</ref>
;Time
* In British folklore, every 7 years the [[Queen of Elphame|Queen of the Fairies]] pays a tithe to [[Hell]] (or possibly [[Hel (location)|Hel]]) in the tale of [[Tam Lin]].

==Science==

===Astronomy===
* The number of celestial objects in the [[solar system]] visible to the naked eye from Earth – the [[Sun]], the [[Moon]] and the five classical [[naked eye planets]]: [[Mars]], [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]], [[Jupiter]], [[Venus]], and [[Saturn]].
* [[Messier object]] [[Ptolemy Cluster|M7]], a magnitude 3.5 [[open cluster]] in the constellation [[Scorpius]].
* The [[New General Catalogue]] [http://www.ngcic.org/ object] NGC 7, a 14th [[visual magnitude|magnitude]] spiral [[galaxy]] in the [[constellation]] [[Sculptor (constellation)|Sculptor]].
* The number of main stars in the asterism of the [[Big Dipper]] and the constellation of [[Orion (constellation)|Orion]].
* The [[Saros number|Saros]] [http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEsaros/SEsaros1-175.html number] of the [[solar eclipse]] series which began on April 8, 2590 BC and ended on May 16, 1310 BC. The duration of Saros series 2 was 1280.14 years, and it contained 72 solar eclipses.
* The [[Saros number|Saros]] [http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEsaros/LEsaros1-175.html number] of the [[lunar eclipse]] series which began on July 15, 2595 BC and ended on February 22, 1008 BC. The duration of Saros series 7 was 1586.6 years, and it contained 89 lunar eclipses.
* The Roman numeral VII stands for [[white dwarf]]s in the [[stellar classification|Yerkes spectral classification scheme]].
* The Roman numeral VII (usually) stands for the seventh-discovered satellite of a planet or minor planet (e.g., [[Jupiter VII]]).

===Biology===
* Almost all mammals have 7 [[cervical vertebrae]]
* The number of spots on a [[Coccinella septempunctata|seven-spot ladybird]]
* There are 7 types of [[virus]] according to the [[Baltimore classification]]

===Chemistry===
[[File:Heptane3D.png|200px|thumb|right|[[Heptane]] is an [[alkane]] with 7 [[carbon]] [[atom]]s per [[molecule]]]]
* A neutral [[pH]] value between [[acid]]ity and [[alkalinity]]
* The [[atomic number]] of [[nitrogen]]
* [[Heptane]] is an [[alkane]] with 7 carbon [[atom]]s in each [[molecule]]
[[File:Periodic Table overview (wide).svg|500px|The [[periodic table]] has 7 [[Period (periodic table)|rows]] of known elements]]
* The number of periods, or horizontal rows of [[chemical element|elements]], in the [[periodic table]]
* The number of [[electron shell|principal energy levels]] for [[electrons]] around the [[Atomic nucleus|nucleus]]
* The number of [[crystal systems]]: triclinic, monoclinic, orthorhombic, tetragonal, trigonal, hexagonal, and cubic.
* The number of crystal lattice systems: cubic (or isometric), hexagonal, tetragonal, rhombohedral, orthorhombic, monoclinic and triclinic.

===Physics===
[[File:Rainbow-diagram-ROYGBIV.svg|thumb|right|200px|Isaac Newton's 7 colors of the rainbow]]
* There are 7 [[SI base unit]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter2/2-1/#2-1-2 |title=SI brochure, The seven SI base units |accessdate=2009-09-11}}</ref> These are a coherent set of units defined to measure 7 basic physical properties: metre, kilogram, [[second]], [[ampere]], [[kelvin]], [[mole (unit)|mole]], [[candela]]. The 7 SI base units are used to define all other SI units, which are known as [[SI derived unit]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter2/2-2/2-2-1.html |title=SI brochure, SI derived units |accessdate=2009-09-11}}</ref>
* [[Isaac Newton]] identified [[Roy G. Biv|7 colors]] of the [[rainbow]] – [[red]], [[orange (color)|orange]], [[yellow]], [[green]], [[blue]], [[indigo]], and [[violet (color)|violet]]

===Psychology===
* [[The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two]]

==Software==
* 7 is the [[Telephone numbers in Russia|calling code of Russia]]. Only the [[North American Numbering Plan]] (+1) and [[Russia]] (+7) have a single-digit code.
* There are seven layers in the [[OSI model]].
* [[Windows 7]], one of the previous releases of [[Windows]] series of operating systems from [[Microsoft]].
* Video game developer [[Bungie]], famed for the ''[[Halo (series)|Halo]]'' series of games, often references the number seven in their products.

==Temporal, seasonal and holidays==
* The seven [[days]] of the [[week]]
* The Kulin people of [[Australia]] living near the Dandenong Ranges traditionally have seven seasons. Some of the Native Americans of [[Montana]] also have seven seasons: [[chinookan|chinook]] season, muddy spring, green summer, gold summer (or dry summer), "Indian" Summer, late fall, and cold winter.
* The [[Heptarchy]], from the ([[Greek language|Greek]] for ''seven realm''), is the name applied by historians to the period (500–850 CE) in [[History of England|English history]] after the [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] conquest of England, derived from the seven kingdoms of [[Northumbria]], [[Mercia]], [[East Anglia]], [[Kingdom of Essex|Essex]], [[Kingdom of Kent|Kent]], [[Kingdom of Sussex|Sussex]], and [[Wessex]], which eventually merged to become the [[Kingdom of England]] during the early 10th century.
* September was the seventh month in the ancient [[Roman calendar]], as its name indicates. After [[Julian calendar|the reform that led to the current order]], the seventh month is July.
* ''Septidi'' was the seventh day of the decade in the [[French Revolutionary Calendar]].
* The 7th glyph of the [[Maya Calendar]] is Blue Hand, it represents the days in creation and is associated with creative perfection. This is the glyph of the last day of their calendar that ends on December 21, 2012.


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* [[Diatonic scale]] (7 notes)
* [[Rainbow|Seven colors in the rainbow]]
* [[Seven continents]]
* [[Seven liberal arts]]
* [[Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]]
* Seven days of the [[Week]]
* [[Septenary|Septenary (numeral system)]]
* [[Septenary|Septenary (numeral system)]]
* [[Septenary (Theosophy)]]
* [[Seven climes]]
* [[Year Seven (School)]]
* [[Year Seven (School)]]
* [[Se7en (disambiguation)]]
* [[Se7en (disambiguation)]]
* [[Luck]]
* [[Sevens (disambiguation)]]
* [[One-seventh area triangle]]
* [[One-seventh area triangle]]
* [[Diatonic scale]]
* [[Z with stroke]] (Ƶ)
* [[List of highways numbered 7]]
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==References==
==References==
* Wells, D. ''[[The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers]]'' London: [[Penguin Group]] (1987): 70–71
* Wells, D. ''[[The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers]]'' London: [[Penguin Group]] (1987): 70–71

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* [http://www.betemunah.org/seven.html The Significance of The Number Seven by Hillel ben David (Greg Killian)]
* [http://www.angelfire.com/az/rainbowbridge/seven.html The Number Seven in the Holy Bible by Ed F. Vallowe]
* [http://www.biblewheel.com/topics/seven.asp The Bible Wheel: The Number Seven and Scripture]
* [http://www.numdic.com/7 The Number 7]
* [http://www.positiveintegers.org/7 The Positive Integer 7]
* [http://primes.utm.edu/curios/page.php/7.html Prime curiosities: 7]


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Cardinalseven
Ordinal7th
(seventh)
Numeral systemseptenary
Factorizationprime
Prime4th
Divisors1, 7
Greek numeralΖ´
Roman numeralVII, vii
Greek prefixhepta-/hept-
Latin prefixseptua-
Binary1112
Ternary213
Senary116
Octal78
Duodecimal712
Hexadecimal716
Greek numeralZ, ζ
Amharic
Arabic, Kurdish, Persian٧
Sindhi, Urdu۷
Bengali
Chinese numeral七, 柒
Devanāgarī
Telugu
Tamil
Hebrewז
Khmer
Thai
Kannada
Malayalam
ArmenianԷ
Babylonian numeral𒐛
Egyptian hieroglyph𓐀
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7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube.

As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week.[1] 7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky.[citation needed]

Evolution of the Arabic digit

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For early Brahmi numerals, 7 was written more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase ⟨J⟩ vertically inverted (ᒉ). The western Arab peoples' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arab peoples developed the digit from a form that looked something like 6 to one that looked like an uppercase V. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke form consisting of a horizontal upper stroke joined at its right to a stroke going down to the bottom left corner, a line that is slightly curved in some font variants. As is the case with the European digit, the Cham and Khmer digit for 7 also evolved to look like their digit 1, though in a different way, so they were also concerned with making their 7 more different. For the Khmer this often involved adding a horizontal line to the top of the digit.[2] This is analogous to the horizontal stroke through the middle that is sometimes used in handwriting in the Western world but which is almost never used in computer fonts. This horizontal stroke is, however, important to distinguish the glyph for seven from the glyph for one in writing that uses a long upstroke in the glyph for 1. In some Greek dialects of the early 12th century the longer line diagonal was drawn in a rather semicircular transverse line.

On seven-segment displays, 7 is the digit with the most common graphic variation (1, 6 and 9 also have variant glyphs). Most devices use three line segments, but devices made by some Japanese companies such as Sharp and Casio, as well as in the Koreas and Taiwan, 7 is written with four line segments because in those countries, 7 is written with a "hook" on the left, as ① in the following illustration. Further segments can give further variation. For example, Schindler elevators in the United States and Canada installed or modernized from the late 1990s onwards usually use a sixteen segment display and show the digit 7 in a manner more similar to that of handwriting.

While the shape of the character for the digit 7 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender (⁊), as, for example, in .

Most people in Continental Europe,[3] Indonesia,[citation needed] and some in Britain, Ireland, and Canada, as well as Latin America, write 7 with a line through the middle (7), sometimes with the top line crooked. The line through the middle is useful to clearly differentiate the digit from the digit one, as they can appear similar when written in certain styles of handwriting. This form is used in official handwriting rules for primary school in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, other Slavic countries,[4] France,[5] Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland,[6] Romania, Germany, Greece,[7] and Hungary.[citation needed]

In mathematics

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Seven, the fourth prime number, is not only a Mersenne prime (since ) but also a double Mersenne prime since the exponent, 3, is itself a Mersenne prime.[8] It is also a Newman–Shanks–Williams prime,[9] a Woodall prime,[10] a factorial prime,[11] a Harshad number, a lucky prime,[12] a happy number (happy prime),[13] a safe prime (the only Mersenne safe prime), a Leyland number of the second kind[14] and Leyland prime of the second kind[15] (), and the fourth Heegner number.[16] Seven is the lowest natural number that cannot be represented as the sum of the squares of three integers.

A seven-sided shape is a heptagon.[17] The regular n-gons for n ⩽ 6 can be constructed by compass and straightedge alone, which makes the heptagon the first regular polygon that cannot be directly constructed with these simple tools.[18]

7 is the only number D for which the equation 2nD = x2 has more than two solutions for n and x natural. In particular, the equation 2n − 7 = x2 is known as the Ramanujan–Nagell equation. 7 is one of seven numbers in the positive definite quadratic integer matrix representative of all odd numbers: {1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 15, 33}.[19][20]

There are 7 frieze groups in two dimensions, consisting of symmetries of the plane whose group of translations is isomorphic to the group of integers.[21] These are related to the 17 wallpaper groups whose transformations and isometries repeat two-dimensional patterns in the plane.[22][23]

A heptagon in Euclidean space is unable to generate uniform tilings alongside other polygons, like the regular pentagon. However, it is one of fourteen polygons that can fill a plane-vertex tiling, in its case only alongside a regular triangle and a 42-sided polygon (3.7.42).[24][25] This is also one of twenty-one such configurations from seventeen combinations of polygons, that features the largest and smallest polygons possible.[26][27] Otherwise, for any regular n-sided polygon, the maximum number of intersecting diagonals (other than through its center) is at most 7.[28]

In two dimensions, there are precisely seven 7-uniform Krotenheerdt tilings, with no other such k-uniform tilings for k > 7, and it is also the only k for which the count of Krotenheerdt tilings agrees with k.[29][30]

The Fano plane, the smallest possible finite projective plane, has 7 points and 7 lines arranged such that every line contains 3 points and 3 lines cross every point.[31] This is related to other appearances of the number seven in relation to exceptional objects, like the fact that the octonions contain seven distinct square roots of −1, seven-dimensional vectors have a cross product, and the number of equiangular lines possible in seven-dimensional space is anomalously large.[32][33][34]

Graph of the probability distribution of the sum of two six-sided dice

The lowest known dimension for an exotic sphere is the seventh dimension.[35][36]

In hyperbolic space, 7 is the highest dimension for non-simplex hypercompact Vinberg polytopes of rank n + 4 mirrors, where there is one unique figure with eleven facets. On the other hand, such figures with rank n + 3 mirrors exist in dimensions 4, 5, 6 and 8; not in 7.[37]

There are seven fundamental types of catastrophes.[38]

When rolling two standard six-sided dice, seven has a 1 in 6 probability of being rolled, the greatest of any number.[39] The opposite sides of a standard six-sided die always add to 7.

The Millennium Prize Problems are seven problems in mathematics that were stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000.[40] Currently, six of the problems remain unsolved.[41]

Basic calculations

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Multiplication 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 50 100 1000
7 × x 7 14 21 28 35 42 49 56 63 70 77 84 91 98 105 112 119 126 133 140 147 154 161 168 175 350 700 7000
Division 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
7 ÷ x 7 3.5 2.3 1.75 1.4 1.16 1 0.875 0.7 0.7 0.63 0.583 0.538461 0.5 0.46
x ÷ 7 0.142857 0.285714 0.428571 0.571428 0.714285 0.857142 1.142857 1.285714 1.428571 1.571428 1.714285 1.857142 2 2.142857
Exponentiation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
7x 7 49 343 2401 16807 117649 823543 5764801 40353607 282475249 1977326743 13841287201 96889010407
x7 1 128 2187 16384 78125 279936 823543 2097152 4782969 10000000 19487171 35831808 62748517

In decimal

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999,999 divided by 7 is exactly 142,857. Therefore, when a vulgar fraction with 7 in the denominator is converted to a decimal expansion, the result has the same six-digit repeating sequence after the decimal point, but the sequence can start with any of those six digits.[42] In decimal representation, the reciprocal of 7 repeats six digits (as 0.142857),[43][44] whose sum when cycling back to 1 is equal to 28.

In science

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In psychology

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Classical antiquity

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The Pythagoreans invested particular numbers with unique spiritual properties. The number seven was considered to be particularly interesting because it consisted of the union of the physical (number 4) with the spiritual (number 3).[48] In Pythagorean numerology the number 7 means spirituality.

References from classical antiquity to the number seven include:

Religion and mythology

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Judaism

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The number seven forms a widespread typological pattern within Hebrew scripture, including:

  • Seven days (more precisely yom) of Creation, leading to the seventh day or Sabbath (Genesis 1)
  • Seven-fold vengeance visited on upon Cain for the killing of Abel (Genesis 4:15)
  • Seven pairs of every clean animal loaded onto the ark by Noah (Genesis 7:2)
  • Seven years of plenty and seven years of famine in Pharaoh's dream (Genesis 41)
  • Seventh son of Jacob, Gad, whose name means good luck (Genesis 46:16)
  • Seven times bullock's blood is sprinkled before God (Leviticus 4:6)
  • Seven nations God told the Israelites they would displace when they entered the land of Israel (Deuteronomy 7:1)
  • Seven days (de jure, but de facto eight days) of the Passover feast (Exodus 13:3–10)
  • Seven-branched candelabrum or Menorah (Exodus 25)
  • Seven trumpets played by seven priests for seven days to bring down the walls of Jericho (Joshua 6:8)
  • Seven things that are detestable to God (Proverbs 6:16–19)
  • Seven Pillars of the House of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1)
  • Seven archangels in the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit (12:15)

References to the number seven in Jewish knowledge and practice include:

  • Seven divisions of the weekly readings or aliyah of the Torah
  • Seven aliyot on Shabbat
  • Seven blessings recited under the chuppah during a Jewish wedding ceremony
  • Seven days of festive meals for a Jewish bride and groom after their wedding, known as Sheva Berachot or Seven Blessings
  • Seven Ushpizzin prayers to the Jewish patriarchs during the holiday of Sukkot

Christianity

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Following the tradition of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament likewise uses the number seven as part of a typological pattern:

Seven lampstands in The Vision of John on Patmos by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1860

References to the number seven in Christian knowledge and practice include:

Islam

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References to the number seven in Islamic knowledge and practice include:

Hinduism

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References to the number seven in Hindu knowledge and practice include:

Eastern tradition

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Other references to the number seven in Eastern traditions include:

The Seven Lucky Gods in Japanese mythology

Other references

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Other references to the number seven in traditions from around the world include:

See also

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Notes

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    When three polygons are employed, there are ten ways; viz., 6,6,63.7.423,8,243,9,183,10,153,12,124,5,204,6,124,8,85,5,10.
    With four polygons there are four ways, viz., 4,4,4,43,3,4,123,3,6,63,4,4,6.
    With five polygons there are two ways, viz., 3,3,3,4,43,3,3,3,6.
    With six polygons one way — all equilateral triangles [ 3.3.3.3.3.3 ]."
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