סָפַר (sa.phar) means “to recount” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: saw-far' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
סָפַר · sa.phar · 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
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סֹפֵר · so.pher · secretary
1) enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe 1a) enumerator, muster-officer, secretary 1b) learned man, scribe Aramaic equivalent: sa.pher (סָפִר "scribe" H5613)
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a primitive root; properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e. celebrate
KJV glosses: commune, (ac-) count; declare, number, [phrase] penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.
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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 |
|---|---|
| the scribe | 31 |
| told | 5 |
| and count | 3 |
| and scribe | 3 |
| and told | 3 |
| be counted | 3 |
| declare | 3 |
| to count | 3 |
| was the scribe | 3 |
| and declare | 2 |
| and i will declare | 2 |
| i can count | 2 |
| i will proclaim | 2 |
| of the scribes | 2 |
| recounted | 2 |
| scribe | 2 |
| was telling | 2 |
| were secretaries | 2 |
| will declare | 2 |
| you are to count off | 2 |
| you may tell | 2 |
| a scribe | 1 |
| an expert | 1 |
| and a scribe | 1 |
| and appraised it | 1 |
| and proclaim | 1 |
| and recount | 1 |
| and reported | 1 |
| and retell them | 1 |
| and tell | 1 |
| and they gave this account | 1 |
| and they relayed | 1 |
| be proclaimed | 1 |
| been told | 1 |
| but will declare | 1 |
| can you count | 1 |
| count | 1 |
| counted | 1 |
| david had numbered | 1 |
| from | 1 |
| have relayed | 1 |
| have taken account | 1 |
| have told | 1 |
| he must count | 1 |
| he must count off | 1 |
| he told | 1 |
| i may declare | 1 |
| i proclaim | 1 |
| i recounted | 1 |
| i will describe | 1 |
| i will recount | 1 |
| i will speak | 1 |
| if i were to count them | 1 |
| inform | 1 |
| is he who counts | 1 |
| is he who tallies | 1 |
| keeping track of it | 1 |
| let us tell | 1 |
| might be proclaimed | 1 |
| numbered | 1 |
| of the marshals | 1 |
| or number | 1 |
| relate | 1 |
| retell | 1 |
| shall count off | 1 |
| she confirmed it | 1 |
| she must count off | 1 |
| should he be told | 1 |
| so he conscripted | 1 |
| someone told you | 1 |
| state your case | 1 |
| tell | 1 |
| tell me your dreams | 1 |
| that i may proclaim | 1 |
| that they may proclaim | 1 |
| the people declare | 1 |
| the scribes | 1 |
| they also told | 1 |
| they can recount | 1 |
| they speak | 1 |
| they tell | 1 |
| they utter | 1 |
| they will declare | 1 |
| to recite | 1 |
| we told him | 1 |
| we will declare | 1 |
| were counted | 1 |
| where jacob told | 1 |
| who counted them out | 1 |
| will record | 1 |
| with a scribes | 1 |
| writer | 1 |
| you counted | 1 |
| you shall count off | 1 |
| you would count | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the scribe | 33 |
| told | 7 |
| scribe | 6 |
| declare | 5 |
| and told | 4 |
| scribes | 4 |
| and declare | 3 |
| i will declare | 3 |
| and he told | 2 |
| and i will declare | 2 |
| and tell | 2 |
| and they told | 2 |
| have told | 2 |
| of the scribes | 2 |
| tell | 2 |
| to number | 2 |
| a scribe | 1 |
| and a scribe | 1 |
| and count | 1 |
| and do tell | 1 |
| and it came to pass as he was telling | 1 |
| and let us declare | 1 |
| and numbered | 1 |
| and that thou mayest tell | 1 |
| and they talk | 1 |
| and thou shalt number | 1 |
| and we told | 1 |
| and ye have numbered | 1 |
| and ye shall count | 1 |
| be declared | 1 |
| cannot be numbered | 1 |
| canst thou number | 1 |
| for myself they shall shew forth | 1 |
| for now thou numberest | 1 |
| had numbered | 1 |
| have i declared | 1 |
| he that counted | 1 |
| her tell | 1 |
| him it shall be accounted | 1 |
| i have declared | 1 |
| i may tell | 1 |
| i should count | 1 |
| i will shew forth | 1 |
| i will speak | 1 |
| into the scribes | 1 |
| it and declare | 1 |
| it with the penknife | 1 |
| let him tell | 1 |
| may be declared | 1 |
| nor counted | 1 |
| nor numbered | 1 |
| number | 1 |
| numbered | 1 |
| numbering | 1 |
| of the writer | 1 |
| shall count | 1 |
| shall declare | 1 |
| shall it be told | 1 |
| shall shew forth | 1 |
| shall ye number | 1 |
| shalt thou number | 1 |
| she told | 1 |
| shewing | 1 |
| tell me | 1 |
| than can be numbered | 1 |
| that could not be told | 1 |
| that he had numbered | 1 |
| that i may declare | 1 |
| that i may shew forth | 1 |
| that it shall not be numbered | 1 |
| that they may declare | 1 |
| that told | 1 |
| that ye may tell | 1 |
| the scribes | 1 |
| the writers | 1 |
| them they told | 1 |
| then he shall number | 1 |
| then she shall number | 1 |
| they commune | 1 |
| they shall reckon | 1 |
| they speak | 1 |
| thou tellest | 1 |
| though it be told | 1 |
| to declare | 1 |
| told out | 1 |
| was scribe | 1 |
| we will shew forth | 1 |
| were numbered | 1 |
| what hast thou to do to declare | 1 |
| which cannot be numbered | 1 |
| which could not be told | 1 |
| which had not been told | 1 |
| which they tell | 1 |
| who can number | 1 |
| with a writers | 1 |
| writer | 1 |
Page 1 of 4. 152 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Read word by wordThen the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”
Read word by wordThen the servant told Isaac all that he had done.
Read word by wordWhen Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
Read word by wordBut You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.13
Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
Read word by wordHe told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
Read word by word“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
Read word by wordSo the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,
Read word by wordIn the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
Read word by wordNow a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.
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 wordBut I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
Read word by wordand that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”
Read word by wordThen Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
Read word by wordWhen Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”
Read word by wordWhen the man has been cleansed from his discharge, he must count off seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe himself in fresh water, and he shall be clean.
Read word by wordWhen a woman is cleansed of her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.
Read word by wordFrom the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.
Read word by wordYou shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.
Read word by wordAnd you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.
Read word by wordAnd they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
Read word by wordYou are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
Read word by wordThen the two men started back, came down from the hill country, and crossed the river. So they came to Joshua son of Nun and reported all that had happened to them.
Read word by wordSome came from Ephraim, with their roots in Amalek; Benjamin came with your people after you. The commanders came down from Machir, the bearers of the marshal’s staff from Zebulun.
Read word by word“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
Read word by wordAnd as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
Read word by wordJust then Saul was returning from the field, behind his oxen. “What troubles the people?” asked Saul. “Why are they weeping?” And they relayed to him the words of the men from Jabesh.
Read word by wordZadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;
Read word by wordSheva was the scribe; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
Read word by wordAfter David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
Read word by wordYour servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
Read word by wordElihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;
Read word by wordThere, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
Read word by wordNow a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.
Read word by wordNow the king had been speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things Elisha has done.”
Read word by wordAnd Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had revived came to appeal to the king for her house and her land. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”
Read word by wordWhen the king asked the woman, she confirmed it. So the king appointed for her an officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, along with all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the country until now.”
Read word by wordWhenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 12.11
Then they called for the king. And Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebnah the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to them.
Read word by wordThen Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
Read word by wordAnd he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz
Read word by wordNow in the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the scribe, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,
Read word by wordThen Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
Read word by wordAnd Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”
Read word by wordMoreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
Read word by wordand commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king:
Read word by wordOf those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
Read word by wordand the clans of the scribes who lived at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
Read word by wordDeclare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.
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