Strong's Lexicon

H4557

H4557 — מִספָּר

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewmicparnoun mascOccurrences: 134TWOT: 1540e

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H4557
Word:מִספָּר
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:from H5608
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:134
Transliteration:micpar
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:mis-pawr'
Meaning:1. a number 2. (definite) arithmetical number 3. (indefinite, large) innumerable 4. (indefinite, small) a few 5. (abstractly) a narration
KJV Renderings:+ abundance, account, X all, X few, (in-)finite, (certain) number(-ed), tale, telling, + time.

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I. מִסְפָר133 noun masculine 1Chr 27:24 number, tale; — absolute ׳ מ Gen 34:30 +; construct מִסְפַר Exod 16:16 +; suffix מִסְפַּרְכֶם Num 14:29, מִסְפָּרָם Judg 21:23 +; plural construct מִסְפְּרֵי 1Chr 12:23

1.
a. number, Judg 7:6 the number of those lapping, לַכּוֺכָבִים ׳ מִס Ps 147:4, + often (37 t. PH); ׳ לֹא עָלָה הַמִּסְפָּר בְּמִסְפַּר דִּבְרֵי וגו 1Chr 27:24 (read בְּסֵפֶר) the number did not come up into (was not recorded in) the book of the daily doings, etc.; redundant after number, 2Sam 21:20 twenty-four (in) number; ׳ אֵין מ it was (they were) innumerable Gen 41:49 ( E ), with לְ Judg 6:5; Judg 7:12; 1Chr 22:16 ; 2Chr 12:3, ׳ לִתְבוּנָתוֺ אֵין מ Ps 147:5 (of ׳ י); absolute Jer 2:32; Job 21:33; Song 6:8 ׳ עַדאֵֿין מ = id. Job 5:9; Job 9:10; Ps 40:13, ׳ וְאֵין לָהֶם מ Jer 46:23 ׳ לְאֵין מ 1Chr 22:4 ׳ וְאֵין מ Ps 104:25 ; Ps 105:34; Joel 1:6 לִגְדוּדָיו ׳ הֲיֵשׁ מ Job 25:3 can his bands be numbered ? without אֵין = numerable , i.e. few, ׳ וִיהִי מְתָיו מ Deut 33:6 but let his men be few ׳ יָמִים מ Num 9:20, ׳ מ alone Isa 10:19, usually in combination, ׳ מְתֵי מ = a few men Gen 34:30 ( J ), Deut 4:27 ; Jer 44:28; 1Chr 16:19; Ps 105:12, ׳ אַנְשֵׁי מ Ezek 12:16 so ׳ שְׁנוֺת מ Job 16:22 adverb phrase מִסְפַר יְמֵי חַיֵּיהֶם Eccl 2:3 = during all their lives, compare Eccl 5:17; Eccl 6:18 = appointed (normal) number, יָמֶיךָ מֲַלֵּא ׳ מ Exod 23:26 ( E ).
b. with preposition בְּ ׳ מְעַט בְּמ Ezek 5:3 few in number; ׳ בְּמ by (exact) count, tale 2Sam 2:15; Deut 25:2; 1Chr 9:28 (twice in verse), so probably Ezek 20:37 read בְּמִסְפַּר ᵐ5 Toy for ᵑ0 מָסֹרֶת; in (prescribed) number Num 29:18 + 6 t. Num 29 ( P ), Ezra 3:4 = acc. to (proportioned to) the number of Lev 25:15. 15 + often; ׳ לְמִס according to number Judg 21:23; Josh 4:5; Josh 4:8 ( J E ) Num 14:29 ( P ) Ezek 4:5 ; 1Chr 27:1 ׳ כְּמִס = id. 1Kgs 18:31 ; Num 15:12 (twice in verse) ( P ); so ׳ מ alone (adverb accusative) Exod 16:16 ( P ) Job 1:5 ; Jer 2:28; Jer 11:13. — Num 23:10b read סָפַר מִי, compare va, so ᵐ5 Di SoKau.
2. recounting, relation מִסְפַּר הַחֲלוֺם Judg 7:15 the recounting of the dream.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מספר (mis-pahr’)

Genesis 34:30

KJV: And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
EHCC: (being) few in wumber,they shall gutter |

Genesis 41:49

KJV: And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
EHCC: for (it was) without number. /

Exodus 16:16

KJV: This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.for every…: Heb. by the poll, or, headpersons: Heb. souls
EHCC: (according to) the number of you pene |

Exodus 23:26

KJV: There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
EHCC: the number of thy days I will fulél.

Leviticus 25:15

KJV: According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
EHCC: According to the number of years

Numbers 1:2

KJV: Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
EHCC: with the number of (their) names,

Numbers 3:22

KJV: Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
EHCC: 34. according to the number of all thems. |

Numbers 9:20

KJV: And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the Lord they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed.
EHCC: when the cloud was a few days (lit. הש

Numbers 14:29

KJV: Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
EHCC: according to your whole number,

Numbers 15:12

KJV: According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.
EHCC: According to the nwmber that ye shall pe

Numbers 23:10

KJV: Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!me: Heb. my soul, or, my life
EHCC: and the number of the fourth (put) ז

Numbers 26:53

KJV: Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
EHCC: according to the number of names. _

Numbers 29:18

KJV: And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
EHCC: 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 37. according to theirs

Numbers 31:36

KJV: And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
EHCC: was in number three hundred thoumpd

Deuteronomy 4:27

KJV: And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you.
EHCC: ye shall be left few in number

Deuteronomy 25:2

KJV: And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number.
EHCC: to his fault, by 4 certain niember,

Deuteronomy 32:8

KJV: When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
EHCC: according to the number of the chiltread

Deuteronomy 38:6

EHCC: let (not) his men be fer. (lit, let הו

Joshua 4:5

KJV: And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
EHCC: accbrding unto the number afte etd

Judges 6:5

KJV: For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
EHCC: and their camels were without st”

Judges 7:6

KJV: And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
EHCC: the number of them that lapped,

Judges 21:23

KJV: And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
EHCC: wiyes, according to their number,

1 Samuel 6:4

KJV: Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines: for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.you: Heb. them
EHCC: the number of the lords of the Philitioa

1 Samuel 27:7

KJV: And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.the time: Heb. the number of daysa full year: Heb. a year of days
EHCC: And the time (mang. the sunber of ₪

1 Samuel 21:20

EHCC: four and twenty in awmber ; 0

1 Kings 18:81

EHCC: according to the rusaber of the tribes

1 Kings 9:28

KJV: And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
EHCC: bring them in and out by tale, (marg.

2 Chronicles 12:3

KJV: With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.
EHCC: the people (were) without number

Nehemiah 7:7

KJV: Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;Azariah: also called, Seraiah
EHCC: The number, (1 80), of the men of the

Esther 9:11

KJV: On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.was…: Heb. came
EHCC: the number of those that were slain

Job 1:5

KJV: And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.continually: Heb. all the days
EHCC: (according) to the number of them all:

Job 9:10

KJV: Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
EHCC: and wonders without number.

Job 38:21

KJV: Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
EHCC: 0r (because) the number of thy days (is)

Psalms 40:12

KJV: For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.faileth: Heb. forsaketh
EHCC: (13 . For innumerable (lit. without number)

Ecclesiastes 2:3

KJV: I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.to give…: Heb. to draw my flesh with wineall…: Heb. the number of the days of their life
EHCC: all the days (marg. the number of the days)

Song of Songs 6:8

KJV: There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
EHCC: and virgins without number.

Isaiah 10:19

KJV: And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.few: Heb. number
EHCC: the trees of his forest shall be few, (marg.

Jeremiah 2:28

KJV: But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.trouble: Heb. evil
EHCC: the number of thy cities.are thy gods,

Jeremiah 44:28

KJV: Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.mine…: Heb. from me, or, from them
EHCC: a small number that escape the sword

Jeremiah 46:23

KJV: They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
EHCC: more than the fresshoppers, and (are)

Ezekiel 4:4

KJV: Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
EHCC: 9.(according) to the number of the days

Ezekiel 4:5

KJV: For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
EHCC: according to the- number af the days,

Ezekiel 5:3

KJV: Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.skirts: Heb. wings
EHCC: take thereof a few in number,

Ezekiel 12:16

KJV: But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the Lord.a few…: Heb. men of number
EHCC: 1 will leave a few men (marg. men of

Daniel 9:2

KJV: In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
EHCC: 1 Daniel understood by books the number

Hosea 1:10

KJV: Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.in…: or, instead of that
EHCC: (2:1). the nsumber of the children of Isreel

Joel 1:6

KJV: For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.
EHCC: strong, and without number,
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