Number
ἀριθμόςStrong’s G0706arithmos
Appears in 14 verses of the New Testament
In short
Arithmos is the Greek word usually translated “number”. It appears in 14 verses of the New Testament.
“Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.”
Meaning
Usually translated “number”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- number 16
- in number 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 6
- Acts 5
- Luke 1
- John 1
- Romans 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- John 6:10And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
- Acts 4:4Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
- Acts 5:36For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.
- Acts 6:7And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
- Acts 11:21And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
- Acts 16:5And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.
Greek dictionary
ἀριθμός arithmos · number
ἀριθμός, -οῦ, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for מִסְפָּר ;] number, a number: Luk.22:3, Jhn.6:10, Act.4:4 5:36 6:7 11:21 16:5, Rom.9:27, Rev.5:11 7:4 9:16 13:17-18 15:2 20:8 (for exx. of mystical use in π., see MM, see word).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “number” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NUM'BER, noun
[Probably the radical sense is to speak, name or tell, as our word tell, in the other dialects, is to number number may be allied to name, as the Spaniards use nombre for name, and the French word written with the same letters, is number ]
- The designation of a unit reference to other units, or in reckoning, counting, enumerating; as, one is the first number; a simple number
- An assemblage of two or more units.
- More than one; many.
- Multitude.
All definitions and other forms of “number”
- In poetry, measure; the order and quantity of syllables constituting feet, which render verse musical to the ear.
- Poetry; verse.
- In grammar, the difference of termination or form of a word, to express unity or plurality.
- In mathematics, number is variously distinguished. cardinal numbers are those which express the amount of units; as 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.
NUM'BER, verb transitive
- To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of any sum, collection or multitude.“If a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered” Genesis 13:16
- To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.“He was numbered with the transgressors” Isaiah 53:12
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.