2 Samuel 8:17
And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;
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Scribe
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1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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סָפַר
çâphar · saw-far'
42 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.
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Strong's first: 2 Samuel 8:17Strong's last: Jeremiah 52:25
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çâphêr · saw-fare'
6 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a scribe (secular or sacred)
Strong's KJV usage: scribe.
Strong's first: Ezra 4:8Strong's last: Ezra 7:21
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grammateús · gram-mat-yooce'
4 times translated as this KJV form67 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: :--scribe, town-clerk.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 8:19Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 1:20
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H5608
Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
H5608
Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.
H5608
Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
H5608
And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
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scribe
SCRIBE, noun [Latin scriba, from scribo, to write; formed probably on the root of grave, scrape, scrub. The first writing was probably engraving on wood or stone.]
1. In a general sense, a writer. Hence,
2. A notary; a public writer.
3. In ecclesiastical meetings and associations in America, a secretary or clerk; one who records the transactions of an ecclesiastical body.
4. In Scripture and the Jewish history, a clerk or secretary to the king. Seraiah was scribe to king David.
2 Samuel 8:17.
5. An officer who enrolled or kept the rolls of the army, and called over the names and reviewed them. 2 Chronicles 24:11. 2 Kings 25:19.
6. A writer and a doctor of the law; a man of learning; one skilled in the law; one who read and explained the law to the people. Ezra 8:1.
SCRIBE, verb transitive To mark by a model or rule; to mark so as to fit one piece to another; a term used by carpenters and joiners.
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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