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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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.
Read in context →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.
Read in context →44 occurrences in 41 verses.
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miçpâr · mis-pawr'
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 →arithmós · ar-ith-mos'
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 →pâqad · paw-kad'
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.
Strong's first: Exodus 30:12Strong's last: 2 Samuel 24:4
Open full H6485 profile →çâphar · saw-far'
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.
Strong's first: Genesis 15:5Strong's last: Job 39:2
Open full H5608 profile →mânâh · maw-naw'
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.
Strong's first: Genesis 13:16Strong's last: Isaiah 65:12
Open full H4487 profile →miphqâd · mif-kawd'
an appointment, i.e. mandate; concretely, a designated spot; specifically, a census
Strong's KJV usage: appointed place, commandment, number.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 24:9Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 21:5
Open full H4662 profile →arithméō · ar-ith-meh'-o
to enumerate or count
Strong's KJV usage: :--number.
Strong's first: Revelation 7:9Strong's last: Revelation 7:9
Open full G705 profile →enkrínō · eng-kree'-no
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 →katalégō · kat-al-eg'-o
to lay down, i.e. (figuratively) to enrol
Strong's KJV usage: :--take into the number.
Strong's first: 1 Timothy 5:9Strong's last: 1 Timothy 5:9
Open full G2639 profile →óchlos · okh'los
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.
Strong's first: Acts 1:15Strong's last: Acts 1:15
Open full G3793 profile →plēthýnō · play-thoo'-no
to increase (transitively or intransitively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--abound, multiply.
Strong's first: Acts 6:1Strong's last: Acts 6:1
Open full G4129 profile →chêqer · khay'-ker
examination, enumeration, deliberation
Strong's KJV usage: finding out, number, (un-) search(-able, -ed, out, -ing).
Strong's first: Job 34:24Strong's last: Job 34:24
Open full H2714 profile →yâchas · yaw-khas'
to enroll by pedigree
Strong's KJV usage: (number after, number throughout the) genealogy (to be reckoned), be reckoned by genealogies.
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 7:9Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 7:9
Open full H3187 profile →mikçâh · mik-saw'
an enumeration; by implication, a valuation
Strong's KJV usage: number, worth.
Strong's first: Exodus 12:4Strong's last: Exodus 12:4
Open full H4373 profile →Mᵉnîy · men-ee'
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 →minyân · min-yawn'
enumeration
Strong's KJV usage: number.
Strong's first: Ezra 6:17Strong's last: Ezra 6:17
Open full H4510 profile →mâʻaṭ · maw-at'
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.
Strong's first: Leviticus 26:22Strong's last: Leviticus 26:22
Open full H4591 profile →math · math
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 →ʻădaph · aw-daf'
to be (causatively have) redundant
Strong's KJV usage: be more, odd number, be (have) over (and above), overplus, remain.
Strong's first: Numbers 3:48Strong's last: Numbers 3:48
Open full H5736 profile →rôb · robe
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).
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 30:24Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 30:24
Open full H7230 profile →râbâh · raw-baw'
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.
Strong's first: Psalms 139:18Strong's last: Psalms 139:18
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There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
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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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