מִסְפָּר (mis.par) means “number” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: mis-pawr' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
מִסְפָּר · mis.par · 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
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from H5608 (סָפַר); a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration
KJV glosses: [phrase] abundance, account, [idiom] all, [idiom] few, (in-) finite, (certain) number(-ed), tale, telling, [phrase] time.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| according to the number | 14 |
| counting | 13 |
| number | 10 |
| the number | 8 |
| and the number | 4 |
| in number | 4 |
| during the few | 3 |
| as numerous | 2 |
| is the list | 2 |
| one for each | 2 |
| only a few | 2 |
| the total | 2 |
| their number | 2 |
| this is the count | 2 |
| a few | 1 |
| a given number of | 1 |
| account | 1 |
| also corresponded to the number | 1 |
| and more | 1 |
| and the length | 1 |
| and the total number | 1 |
| and were counted off | 1 |
| are as many | 1 |
| as recorded | 1 |
| based on the number | 1 |
| be counted | 1 |
| be few | 1 |
| be numbered | 1 |
| by number | 1 |
| count them | 1 |
| determined by the number | 1 |
| during the | 1 |
| for only a few | 1 |
| for the number | 1 |
| in all | 1 |
| in any | 1 |
| in keeping with the | 1 |
| in the census | 1 |
| in the numbers | 1 |
| limit | 1 |
| listed | 1 |
| listing | 1 |
| many | 1 |
| measure | 1 |
| or number | 1 |
| so few | 1 |
| strands of hair | 1 |
| the numbers | 1 |
| they numbered | 1 |
| this is the list | 1 |
| vvv | 1 |
| was the inventory | 1 |
| was verified by number | 1 |
| were counted | 1 |
| were numbered | 1 |
| when the number | 1 |
| with the number | 1 |
| yet the number | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| according to the number | 20 |
| the number | 19 |
| according to their number | 9 |
| and the number | 6 |
| by number | 6 |
| without number | 6 |
| in number | 5 |
| to the number | 5 |
| all | 3 |
| innumerable | 3 |
| of them according to the number | 3 |
| according unto the number | 2 |
| and the time | 2 |
| number | 2 |
| the sum | 2 |
| a few | 1 |
| after the number | 1 |
| after their number | 1 |
| and that without number | 1 |
| and their number | 1 |
| and without number | 1 |
| any number | 1 |
| be few | 1 |
| by a certain number | 1 |
| by tale | 1 |
| by the number | 1 |
| for innumerable | 1 |
| him when the number | 1 |
| in abundance | 1 |
| in the account | 1 |
| in the number | 1 |
| infinite | 1 |
| into the number | 1 |
| neither was the number | 1 |
| no number | 1 |
| not neither can the number | 1 |
| not the number | 1 |
| numbered | 1 |
| of the number | 1 |
| of you according to your whole number | 1 |
| shall be according unto the number | 1 |
| shall be few | 1 |
| so the number | 1 |
| the numbers | 1 |
| the telling | 1 |
| the whole number | 1 |
| unto him the number | 1 |
| was a few | 1 |
| was in number | 1 |
| were without number | 1 |
| when a few | 1 |
| when ye were but few | 1 |
| whose number | 1 |
| with the number | 1 |
| yet the number | 1 |
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Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
Read word by wordSo Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”
Read word by wordNo woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Read word by wordYou are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.
Read word by wordYou shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.
Read word by wordHe and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
Read word by word“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.
Read word by wordand on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,
Read word by wordFrom the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Read word by wordFrom the sons of Simeon, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Read word by wordFrom the sons of Gad, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Read word by wordFrom the sons of Judah, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Read word by wordFrom the sons of Issachar, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Read word by wordFrom the sons of Zebulun, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Read word by wordFrom the sons of Joseph: From the sons of Ephraim, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Read word by wordAnd from the sons of Manasseh, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Read word by wordFrom the sons of Benjamin, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Read word by wordFrom the sons of Dan, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Read word by wordFrom the sons of Asher, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Read word by wordFrom the sons of Naphtali, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Read word by wordThe number of all the males a month old or more was 7,500.
Read word by wordThe number of all the males a month old or more was 8,600. They were responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.
Read word by wordThe number of all the males a month old or more was 6,200.
Read word by wordThen the LORD said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or more, and list their names.
Read word by wordThe total number of the firstborn males a month old or more, listed by name, was 22,273.
Read word by wordSometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days, and they would camp at the LORD’s command and set out at the LORD’s command.
Read word by wordYour bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
Read word by wordIn keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
Read word by wordThis is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.
Read word by wordWho can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”
Read word by word“The land is to be divided among the tribes as an inheritance, according to the number of names.
Read word by wordalong with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Read word by wordalong with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Read word by wordalong with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Read word by wordalong with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Read word by wordalong with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Read word by wordalong with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Read word by wordalong with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Read word by wordThis was the half portion for those who had gone to war: 337,500 sheep,
Read word by wordThen the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Read word by wordIf the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.
Read word by wordWhen the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Read word by wordLet Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”
Read word by wordand said to them, “Cross over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of Israel,
Read word by wordThus the Israelites did as Joshua had commanded them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each tribe of Israel, just as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them to the camp, where they set them down.
Read word by wordFor the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
Read word by wordAnd the number of those who lapped the water with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men; all the others knelt to drink.
Read word by wordNow the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Read word by wordWhen Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”
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