To recount
סָפַרStrong’s H5608saphar (sa-phar)
Appears in 152 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saphar is the Hebrew word usually translated “scribe”, “recounted” and “recount”. It appears in 152 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.”
Meaning
- To count, recount, relate(Qal) · (Niphal) to be counted, be numbered · (Piel) to recount, rehearse, declare · (Pual) to be recounted, be rehearsed, be related
- Enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribeenumerator, muster-officer, secretary · learned man, scribe
How it's translated
- the scribe 35
- and he recounted 11
- recount 6
- it will be counted 5
- to recount 4
- recounting 4
- scribe of 4
- you will count 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 37
- Jeremiah 16
- 2 Kings 13
- Genesis 12
- 2 Chronicles 9
- Job 8
24 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 16:10And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
- Genesis 24:66And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
- Genesis 29:13And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister’s son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.
- Genesis 32:12And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
- Genesis 37:9And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
- Genesis 37:10And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
All 152 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
סָפַר saphar · to recount
v 1) to count, recount, relate 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to count (things) 1a2) to number, take account of, reckon 1b) (Niphal) to be counted, be numbered 1c) (Piel) to recount, rehearse, declare 1c1) to recount (something), rehearse 1c2) to talk 1c3) to count exactly or accurately 1d) (Pual) to be recounted, be rehearsed, be related
סֹפֵר sopher · secretary
1) enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe 1a) enumerator, muster-officer, secretary 1b) learned man, scribe Aramaic equivalent: sa.pher (סָפִר "scribe" H5613)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scribe” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCRIBE, noun
[Latin scriba, from scribo, to write; formed probably on the root of grave, scrape, scrub. The first writing was probably engraving on wood or stone.]
- In a general sense, a writer.
- A notary; a public writer.
- In ecclesiastical meetings and associations in America, a secretary or clerk; one who records the transactions of an ecclesiastical body.
- In Scripture and the Jewish history, a clerk or secretary to the king.
All definitions and other forms of “scribe”
- An officer who enrolled or kept the rolls of the army, and called over the names and reviewed them. 2 Chronicles 24:112 Kings 25:19
- A writer and a doctor of the law; a man of learning; one skilled in the law; one who read and explained the law to the people.
SCRIBE, verb transitive
To mark by a model or rule; to mark so as to fit one piece to another; a term used by carpenters and joiners.
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.