Number
מִסְפָּרStrong’s H4557mispar (mis-par)
Appears in 129 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mispar is the Hebrew word usually translated “number of”, “number” and “number their”. It appears in 129 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- Number, talenumber · recounting, relation
How it's translated
- number of 33
- by number of 25
- number 23
- number their 8
- by number their 7
- by number 7
- a number 6
- to number of 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 33
- 1 Chronicles 19
- Job 13
- Psalms 6
- Judges 5
- 2 Samuel 5
25 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 34:30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
- Genesis 41:49And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
- Exodus 16:16This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
- Exodus 23:26There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
- Leviticus 25:15According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
- Leviticus 25:16According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
All 129 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מִסְפָּר mispar · number
1) number, tale 1a) number 1a1) number 1a2) innumerable (with negative) 1a3) few, numerable (alone) 1a4) by count, in number, according to number (with prep) 1b) recounting, relation
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.