Number
סְפֹרָהStrong’s H5615sephorah (se-pho-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sephorah is the Hebrew word usually translated “numbers”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.”
Meaning
- Number
How it's translated
- numbers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
סְפֹרָה sephorah · number
number
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.