Hebrew

Number

מִכְסָהStrong’s H4373

mikhsah (mikh-sah)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Mikhsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “number of” and “amount of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.”

Exodus 12:4 KJV

Meaning

Computationnumber · worth, valuation

How it's translated

by number of 1
amount of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Exodus 1
Leviticus 1

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Leviticus 27:23Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.

Hebrew dictionary

מִכְסָה mikhsah · number

1) computation 1a) number 1b) worth, valuation

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.