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Lexicon :: Strong's H4557 - mispār

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מִסְפָּר
Transliteration
mispār
Pronunciation
mis-pawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1540e

Strong’s Definitions

מִסְפָּר miçpâr, mis-pawr'; from H5608; a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration:— abundance, account, × all, × few, (in-) finite, (certain) number(-ed), tale, telling, time.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 134x

The KJV translates Strong's H4557 in the following manner: number (110x), few (6x), all (3x), innumerable (3x), sum (2x), time (2x), account (1x), abundance (with H369) (1x), infinite (1x), innumerable (with H369) (1x), numbered (1x), tale (1x), telling (1x), miscellaneous (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 134x
The KJV translates Strong's H4557 in the following manner: number (110x), few (6x), all (3x), innumerable (3x), sum (2x), time (2x), account (1x), abundance (with H369) (1x), infinite (1x), innumerable (with H369) (1x), numbered (1x), tale (1x), telling (1x), miscellaneous (1x).

  1. number, tale

    1. number

      1. number

      2. innumerable (with negative)

      3. few, numerable (alone)

      4. by count, in number, according to number (with prep)

    2. recounting, relation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִסְפָּר miçpâr, mis-pawr'; from H5608; a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration:— abundance, account, × all, × few, (in-) finite, (certain) number(-ed), tale, telling, time.
STRONGS H4557: Abbreviations
I. מִסְפָּר 133 noun masculine 1 Chronicles 27:24 number, tale; — absolute מ׳ Genesis 34:30 +; construct מִסְפַּר Exodus 16:16 +; suffix מִסְפַּרְכֶם Numbers 14:29, מִסְפָּרָם Judges 21:23 +; plural construct מִסְפְּרֵי 1 Chronicles 12:23; —
1.
a. number, Judges 7:6 the number of those lapping, לַכּוֺכָבִים מִס׳ Psalm 147:4, + often (37 times PH); וגו׳ דִּבְרֵי בְּמִסְפַּר הַמִּסְפָּר עָלָה לֹא 1 Chronicles 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, † 2 Samuel 21:20 twenty-four (in) number; אֵין מ׳ it was (they were) innumerable Genesis 41:49 (E), with לְ Judges 6:5; Judges 7:12; 1 Chronicles 22:16; 2 Chronicles 12:3, לִתְבוּנָתוֺ אֵין מ׳ Psalm 147:5 (of י׳); absolute Jeremiah 2:32; Job 21:33; Songs 6:8; † עַדאֵֿין מ׳ = id. Job 5:9; Job 9:10; Psalm 40:13, וְאֵין לָהֶם מ׳ Jeremiah 46:23; לְאֵין מ׳ † 1 Chronicles 22:4; וְאֵין מ׳ † Psalm 104:25; Psalm 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׳ Deuteronomy 33:6 but let his men be few יָמִים מ׳ Numbers 9:20, מ׳ alone Isaiah 10:19, usually in combination, מְתֵי מ׳ = a few men Genesis 34:30 (J), Deuteronomy 4:27; Jeremiah 44:28; 1 Chronicles 16:19; Psalm 105:12, אַנְשֵׁי מ׳ Ezekiel 12:16; so שְׁנוֺת מ׳ Job 16:22; adverb phrase חַיֵּיהֶם יְמֵי מִסְפַּר Ecclesiastes 2:3 = during all their lives, compare Ecclesiastes 5:17; Ecclesiastes 6:18 = appointed (normal) number, אֲמַלֵּא יָמֶיךָ מ׳ Exodus 23:26 (E).
b. with preposition ׃בְּ מְעַט בְּמ׳ Ezekiel 5:3 few in number; בְּמ׳ by (exact) count, tale 2 Samuel 2:15; Deuteronomy 25:2; 1 Chronicles 9:28 (twice in verse), so probably Ezekiel 20:37 read בְּמִסְפַּר Greek Version of the LXX Toy for MT מָסֹרֶת; in (prescribed) number Numbers 29:18 + 6 times Numbers 29 (P), Ezra 3:4; = acc. to (proportioned to) the number of Leviticus 25:15. 15 + often; לְמִס׳ according to number Judges 21:23; Joshua 4:5, 8 (JE) Numbers 14:29 (P) Ezekiel 4:5; 1 Chronicles 27:1; כְּמִס׳ = id. 1 Kings 18:31; Numbers 15:12 (twice in verse) (P); so מ׳ alone (adverb accusative) Exodus 16:16 (P) Job 1:5; Jeremiah 2:28; Jeremiah 11:13. — Numbers 23:10b read סָפַר מִי, compare Numbers 23:10a, so Greek Version of the LXX Di SoKau.
† 2. recounting, relation הַחֲלוֹם מִסְפַּר Judges 7:15 the recounting of the dream.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

34:30; 34:30; 41:49

Exodus

16:16; 16:16; 23:26

Leviticus

25:15; 25:15

Numbers

9:20; 14:29; 14:29; 15:12; 23:10; 23:10; 29; 29:18

Deuteronomy

4:27; 25:2; 33:6

Joshua

4:5; 4:8

Judges

6:5; 7:6; 7:12; 7:15; 21:23; 21:23

2 Samuel

2:15; 21:20

1 Kings

18:31

1 Chronicles

9:28; 12:23; 16:19; 22:4; 22:16; 27:1; 27:24; 27:24

2 Chronicles

12:3

Ezra

3:4

Job

1:5; 5:9; 9:10; 16:22; 21:33; 25:3

Psalms

40:13; 104:25; 105:12; 105:34; 147:4; 147:5

Ecclesiastes

2:3; 5:17

Song of Songs

6:8

Isaiah

10:19

Jeremiah

2:28; 2:32; 11:13; 44:28; 46:23

Ezekiel

4:5; 5:3; 12:16; 20:37

Joel

1:6

H4557

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Strong's Number H4557 matches the Hebrew מִסְפָּר (mispār),
which occurs 134 times in 129 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 34:30–Jdg 7:15)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:30 - And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16 - This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, Gather ye of it every man according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall ye take it, every man for them that are in his tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:26 - There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15 - According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, and according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:16 - According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of the crops doth he sell unto thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2 - Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 - And the children of Reuben, Israel’s first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 - Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, those that were numbered thereof, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:24 - Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26 - Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:28 - Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:30 - Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:32 - Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:34 - Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:36 - Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:38 - Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:40 - Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:42

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:42 - Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:22 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:34 - And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:40 - And Jehovah said unto Moses, Number all the first-born males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:43 - And all the first-born males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:20 - And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; then according to the commandment of Jehovah they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of Jehovah they journeyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34 - After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:12 - According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:10 -
Who can count the dust of Jacob,
Or number the fourth part of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,
And let my last end be like his!

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:53 - Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:18 - and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:21 - and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:24 - their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:27 - and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:30 - and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:33 - and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:37 - their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:36 - And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:27 - And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah shall lead you away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:2 - 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 wickedness, by number.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:8 -
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
When he separated the children of men,
He set the bounds of the peoples
According to the number of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:6 -
Let Reuben live, and not die;
Nor let his men be few.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:5 - and Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of Jehovah your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:8 - And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5 - For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:6 - And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Jehovah hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

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