Genesis 13:16
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
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Revelation 20:8
And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
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44 occurrences in 41 verses.
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Genesis
44 verses
Exodus
44 verses
Leviticus
98 verses
Numbers
4441 verses
Deuteronomy
76 verses
Joshua
22 verses
Judges
44 verses
1 Samuel
33 verses
2 Samuel
76 verses
1 Kings
22 verses
1 Chronicles
1816 verses
2 Chronicles
66 verses
Ezra
55 verses
Nehemiah
11 verses
Esther
11 verses
Job
1414 verses
Psalms
55 verses
Song of Solomon
11 verses
Isaiah
44 verses
Jeremiah
54 verses
Ezekiel
44 verses
Daniel
11 verses
Hosea
11 verses
Joel
11 verses
Nahum
11 verses
Mark
11 verses
Luke
11 verses
John
11 verses
Acts
77 verses
Romans
11 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
1 Timothy
11 verses
Revelation
118 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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מִסְפָּר
miçpâr · mis-pawr'
109 times translated as this KJV form131 total Strong's occurrences
a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration
Strong's KJV usage: abundance, account, × all, × few, (in-) finite, (certain) number(-ed), tale, telling, time.
Strong's first: Genesis 34:30Strong's last: Joel 1:6
Open full H4557 profile →ἀριθμός
arithmós · ar-ith-mos'
18 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
a number (as reckoned up)
Strong's KJV usage: :--number.
Strong's first: Luke 22:3Strong's last: Revelation 20:8
Open full G706 profile →פָּקַד
pâqad · paw-kad'
14 times translated as this KJV form304 total Strong's occurrences
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, × at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, × by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, × surely, visit, want.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 30:12Strong's last: 2 Samuel 24:4
Open full H6485 profile →סָפַר
çâphar · saw-far'
10 times translated as this KJV form160 total Strong's occurrences
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
Strong's KJV usage: commune, (ac-) count; declare, number, penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 15:5Strong's last: Job 39:2
Open full H5608 profile →מָנָה
mânâh · maw-naw'
7 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to weigh out; by implication, to allot or constitute officially; also to enumerate or enroll
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, count, number, prepare, set, tell.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 13:16Strong's last: Isaiah 65:12
Open full H4487 profile →מִפְקָד
miphqâd · mif-kawd'
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
an appointment, i.e. mandate; concretely, a designated spot; specifically, a census
Strong's KJV usage: appointed place, commandment, number.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 24:9Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 21:5
Open full H4662 profile →ἀριθμέω
arithméō · ar-ith-meh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to enumerate or count
Strong's KJV usage: :--number.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Revelation 7:9Strong's last: Revelation 7:9
Open full G705 profile →ἐγκρίνω
enkrínō · eng-kree'-no
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to judge in, i.e. count among
Strong's KJV usage: :--make of the number.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 10:12Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 10:12
Open full G1469 profile →καταλέγω
katalégō · kat-al-eg'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to lay down, i.e. (figuratively) to enrol
Strong's KJV usage: :--take into the number.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Timothy 5:9Strong's last: 1 Timothy 5:9
Open full G2639 profile →ὄχλος
óchlos · okh'los
1 times translated as this KJV form186 total Strong's occurrences
a throng (as borne along); by implication, the rabble; by extension, a class of people; figuratively, a riot
Strong's KJV usage: :--company, multitude, number (of people), people, press.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 1:15Strong's last: Acts 1:15
Open full G3793 profile →πληθύνω
plēthýnō · play-thoo'-no
1 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
to increase (transitively or intransitively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--abound, multiply.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 6:1Strong's last: Acts 6:1
Open full G4129 profile →חֵקֶר
chêqer · khay'-ker
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
examination, enumeration, deliberation
Strong's KJV usage: finding out, number, (un-) search(-able, -ed, out, -ing).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 34:24Strong's last: Job 34:24
Open full H2714 profile →יָחַשׂ
yâchas · yaw-khas'
1 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
to enroll by pedigree
Strong's KJV usage: (number after, number throughout the) genealogy (to be reckoned), be reckoned by genealogies.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 7:9Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 7:9
Open full H3187 profile →מִכְסָה
mikçâh · mik-saw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
an enumeration; by implication, a valuation
Strong's KJV usage: number, worth.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 12:4Strong's last: Exodus 12:4
Open full H4373 profile →מְנִי
Mᵉnîy · men-ee'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
the Apportioner, i.e. Fate (as an idol)
Strong's KJV usage: number.
Strong's first: Isaiah 65:11Strong's last: Isaiah 65:11
Open full H4507 profile →מִנְיָן
minyân · min-yawn'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
enumeration
Strong's KJV usage: number.
Strong's first: Ezra 6:17Strong's last: Ezra 6:17
Open full H4510 profile →מָעַט
mâʻaṭ · maw-at'
1 times translated as this KJV form23 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to pare off, i.e. lessen; intransitively, to be (or causatively, to make) small or few (or figuratively, ineffective)
Strong's KJV usage: suffer to decrease, diminish, (be, × borrow a, give, make) few (in number, -ness), gather least (little), be (seem) little, (× give the) less, be minished, bring to nothing.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 26:22Strong's last: Leviticus 26:22
Open full H4591 profile →מַת
math · math
1 times translated as this KJV form21 total Strong's occurrences
properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication, a man (only in the plural)
Strong's KJV usage: few, × friends, men, persons, × small.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 28:62Strong's last: Deuteronomy 28:62
Open full H4962 profile →עֲדַף
ʻădaph · aw-daf'
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to be (causatively have) redundant
Strong's KJV usage: be more, odd number, be (have) over (and above), overplus, remain.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 3:48Strong's last: Numbers 3:48
Open full H5736 profile →רֹב
rôb · robe
1 times translated as this KJV form154 total Strong's occurrences
abundance (in any respect)
Strong's KJV usage: abundance(-antly), all, × common (sort), excellent, great(-ly, -ness, number), huge, be increased, long, many, more in number, most, much, multitude, plenty(-ifully), × very (age).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 30:24Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 30:24
Open full H7230 profile →רָבָה
râbâh · raw-baw'
1 times translated as this KJV form227 total Strong's occurrences
to increase (in whatever respect)
Strong's KJV usage: (bring in) abundance (× -antly), archer (by mistake for 7232), be in authority, bring up, × continue, enlarge, excel, exceeding(-ly), be full of, (be, make) great(-er, -ly, × -ness), grow up, heap, increase, be long, (be, give, have, make, use) many (a time), (any, be, give, give the, have) more (in number), (ask, be, be so, gather, over, take, yield) much (greater, more), (make to) multiply, nourish, plenty(-eous), × process (of time), sore, store, thoroughly, very.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 139:18Strong's last: Psalms 139:18
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H4557
And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
H3187
And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
H4557
All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
H4557
And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.
H4487
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
H5608
And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
H4557
And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.
H4662
And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
H4557
Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
H4557
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
H4557
These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.
H4557
And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:
H4557
Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
H4557
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
H4557
Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.
H4557
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
H4487
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
H4557
Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.
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number
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 ]
1. The designation of a unit reference to other units, or in reckoning, counting, enumerating; as, one is the first number; a simple number
2. An assemblage of two or more units. Two is a number composed of one and one added. Five and three added make the number eight. number may be applied to any collection or multitude of units or individuals, and therefore is indefinite, unless defined by other words or by figures or signs of definite signification. Hence,
3. More than one; many.
Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers.
4. Multitude.
Number itself importeth not much in armies, where the men are of weak courage.
5. In poetry, measure; the order and quantity of syllables constituting feet, which render verse musical to the ear. The harmony of verse consists in the proper distribution of the long and short syllables, with suitable pauses. In oratory, a judicious disposition of words, syllables and cadences constitutes a kind of measure resembling poetic numbers.
6. Poetry; verse.
I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
Here the first word numbers may be taken for poetry or verse, and the second for measure.
Yet shoud the Muses bid my numbers roll.
7. In grammar, the difference of termination or form of a word, to express unity or plurality. The termination which denotes one or an individual, is the singular number; the termination that denotes two or more individuals or units, constitues the plural number Hence we say, a noun, an adjective, a pronoun or a verb is in the singular or the plural number
8. 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. Ordinal numbers are those which express order; as first, second, third, fourth, etc.
Determinate number is that referred to a given unit, as a ternary or three; an indeterminate number is referred to unity in general, and called quantity.
Homogeneal numbers, are those referred to the same units; those referred to different units are termed heterogeneal.
Whole numbers, are called integers.
A rational number is one commensurable with unity. A number incommensurable with unity, is termed irrational or surd.
A prime or primitive number is divisible only by unity; as three, five, seven, etc.
A perfect number is that whose aliquot parts added together, make the whole number as 28, whose aliquot parts, 14. 7. 4. 2. 1. make the number 28.
An imperfect number is that whose aliquot parts added together, make more or less than the number This is abundant or defedtive; abundant, as 12, whose aliquot parts, 6. 4. 3. 2. 1. make 16; or defective, as 16 whose aliquot parts, 8. 4. 2. 1. make 15 only.
A square number is the product of a number multiplied by itself; as, 16 is the square number of four.
A cubic number is the product of a square number by its root; as, 27 is the product of the square number 9 by its root 3.
Golden number the cycle of the moon, or revolution of 19 years, in which time the conjunctions, oppositions and other aspects of the moon are nearly the same as they were on the same days of the month 19 years before.
NUM'BER, verb transitive
1. 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 8:1.
2. 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). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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