Numbering
סְפָרStrong’s H5610sephar (se-phar)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sephar is the Hebrew word usually translated “census”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.”
Meaning
- Census, enumeration
How it's translated
- the census 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
סְפָר sephar · numbering
census, enumeration
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “numbering” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NUM'BERING, participle present
tense Counting; ascertaining the units of a multitutde or collection.
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.