מִסְפָּרmiçpâr

number, tale

Pronunciation: mis-pawr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4557

Meanings

1.

a. number (Judges 7:6; Psalms 147:4; 1 Chronicles 27:24)

b. with preposition בְּ (Ezekiel 5:3; 2 Samuel 2:15; Deuteronomy 25:2)

2. recounting, relation (Judges 7:15)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 134 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 34:30 Afterward Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have ruined me! You’ve made me stink among all the people of this land—among all the Canaanites and Perizzites. We are so few that they will join forces and crush us. I will be ruined, and my entire household will be wiped out!”
  • Genesis 41:49 He piled up huge amounts of grain like sand on the seashore. Finally, he stopped keeping records because there was too much to measure.
  • Exodus 16:16 These are the Lord’s instructions: Each household should gather as much as it needs. Pick up two quarts for each person in your tent.”
  • Exodus 23:26 There will be no miscarriages or infertility in your land, and I will give you long, full lives.
  • Leviticus 25:15 When you buy land from your neighbor, the price you pay must be based on the number of years since the last jubilee. The seller must set the price by taking into account the number of years remaining until the next Year of Jubilee.
  • Leviticus 25:16 The more years until the next jubilee, the higher the price; the fewer years, the lower the price. After all, the person selling the land is actually selling you a certain number of harvests.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).