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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 2 / 3 (Jdg 21:23–Job 25:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:23 - And the sons of Benjamin did so and carried away wives according to their number H4557 from those who danced, whom they stole away. And they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the cities and lived in them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:4 - Then they said, “What shall be the guilt offering which we shall return to Him?” And they said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice according to the number H4557 of the lords of the Philistines, for one plague was on all of [fn]you and on your lords.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18 - and the golden mice, according to the number H4557 of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages. The large [fn]stone on which they set the ark of Yahweh is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:7 - And the number H4557 of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:11 - And the [fn]time H4557 that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:15 - So they arose and went over by count H4557, twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:20 - Then there was war at Gath again, and there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number H4557; and he also had been born to the [fn]giants.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:2 - So the king said to Joab the commander of the military force who was with him, “Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and [fn]take a census of the people, that I may know the total count H4557 of the people.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:9 - And Joab gave the total count H4557 of the [fn]census of the people to the king; and there were in Israel 800,000 valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000 men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:31 - Then Elijah took twelve stones according to the number H4557 of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:2 -

The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number H4557 in the days of David was 22,600.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40 -

All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, heads of the princes. And the number H4557 of them recorded by genealogy for the army in war was 26,000 men.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:28 -

Now some of them were over the utensils of service, for [fn]they counted H4557 them when they brought them in and when they took them out.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:11 - These constitute the list H4557 of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred [fn]slain by him at one time.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:23 -

Now these are the numbers H4557 of the [fn]companies equipped for military duty, who came to David at Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the [fn]command of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:19 -

When you were only a few men in number H4557,

Of little account, and sojourners in it,

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:2 - So David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, and bring me word that I may know their total count H4557.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:5 - And Joab gave the total count H4557 of the [fn]census of the people to David. And all Israel were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword; and Judah was 470,000 men who drew the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:4 - and timbers of cedar logs beyond number H4557, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought large quantities of cedar timber to David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:16 - “Of the gold, the silver and the bronze and the iron there is no number H4557. Arise and work, and may Yahweh be with you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:3 - And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number H4557 by [fn]census of men was 38,000.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:24 -

These were the sons of Levi according to their fathers’ households, even the heads of the fathers’ households of those of them who were [fn]counted, in the number H4557 of names by their [fn]census, doing the work for the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and upward.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:27 - For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered H4557 from twenty years old and upward.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:31 - and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the sabbaths, the new moons and the appointed times in the number H4557 set by the judgments concerning them, continually before Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:1 -

Moreover, David and the commanders of the army separated for the service some of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals; and the number H4557 of [fn]those who performed their service was:

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:7 - And their number H4557 who were trained in singing to Yahweh, with their [fn]relatives, all who were skillful, was 288.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:1 -

Now this is the total count H4557 of the sons of Israel, the heads of fathers’ households, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who ministered to the king in each matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, each division numbering 24,000:

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:23 -

But David did not take up a count H4557 of those twenty years of age and under, because Yahweh had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:24 - Joab the son of Zeruiah had begun to number them, but did not finish; and because of this, wrath came upon Israel, and [fn]this count H4557 was not included in the total count H4557 of the chronicles of King David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3 - with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number H4557: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:11 - Moreover, Uzziah had a military force which could wage war, which went out for military duty by divisions according to the number H4557 of their muster, prepared by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s officials.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:12 - The total number H4557 of the heads of the [fn]households, of mighty men of valor, was 2,600.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:32 - And the number H4557 of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 -

And Josiah contributed to the lay people, to all who were present, flocks of lambs and young goats, all for the Passover offerings, numbering H4557 30,000 plus 3,000 bulls; these were from the king’s possessions.

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:9 - Now this was their number H4557: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 [fn]duplicates;
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:2 - [fn]These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, [fn]Seraiah, [fn]Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, [fn]Mispar, Bigvai, [fn]Rehum, and Baanah.

The number H4557 of the men of the people of Israel:

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:4 - They celebrated the Feast of [fn]Booths, as it is written, and offered [fn]the fixed number H4557 of burnt offerings daily, according to the legal judgment, as each day required;
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:34 - Everything was numbered H4557 and weighed, and all the weight was written down at that time.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:7 - who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, [fn]Azariah, [fn]Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, [fn]Mispereth, Bigvai, [fn]Nehum, Baanah.

The number H4557 of men of the people of Israel:

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:11 -

On that day the number H4557 of those who were killed at the citadel in Susa came to the king.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5 - Now it happened when the days of feasting had completed their cycle, that Job would send and set them apart as holy. And he would rise up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number H4557 of them all; for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and [fn]cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:6 -

As for that night, let thick darkness take it;

Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;

Let it not come into the number H4557 of the months.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:9 -

Who does great and unsearchable things,

[fn]Wonders without number H4557.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:10 -

Who does great things, unsearchable,

And wondrous works, innumerable.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:5 -

“Since his days are determined,

The number H4557 of his months is with You;

And his limits You have [fn]set so that he cannot pass.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:20 -

“The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,

And [fn]numbered H4557 are the years stored up for the ruthless.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:22 -

“For when a few H4557 years are past,

I shall go the way of no return.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:21 -

“For what desire does he have for his household [fn]after him,

When the number H4557 of his months is cut off?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:33 -

“The clods of the valley will [fn]gently cover him;

Moreover, all men will draw up after him,

While countless H4557 ones go before him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:3 -

“Is there any number H4557 to His troops?

And upon whom does His light not rise?


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