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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 - Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought ruin on me by making me a foul odor among the inhabitants of the land - among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:49 - Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16 - "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:26 - No woman will miscarry her young or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:15 - You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:16 - The more years there are, the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of produce.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:50

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:50 - He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2 - "Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their clans and families, counting the name of every individual male.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:18 - and they assembled the entire community together on the first day of the second month. Then the people recorded their ancestry by their clans and families, and the men who were twenty years old or older were listed by name individually,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 - And they were as follows: The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn son of Israel: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 - From the descendants of Simeon: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males numbered of them twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name individually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:24 - From the descendants of Gad: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26 - From the descendants of Judah: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:28 - From the descendants of Issachar: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:30 - From the descendants of Zebulun: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:32 - From the sons of Joseph: From the descendants of Ephraim: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:34 - From the descendants of Manasseh: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:36 - From the descendants of Benjamin: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:38 - From the descendants of Dan: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:40 - From the descendants of Asher: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:42

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:42 - From the descendants of Naphtali: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:22 - Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 7,500.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - Counting every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600. They were responsible for the care of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:34 - Those of them who were numbered, counting every male from a month old and upward, were 6,200.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:40 - Then the LORD said to Moses, "Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites 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 firstborn males, by the number of the names from a month old and upward, totaled 22,273.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:20 - When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days, they remained camped according to the LORD's commandment, and according to the LORD's commandment they would journey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness - all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:34 - According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days - one day for a year - you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:12 - You must do so for each one according to the number that you prepare.

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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 upright, and let the end of my life be like theirs."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:53

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:53 - "To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:18 - and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:21 - and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:24 - and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:27 - and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:30 - and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:33 - and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:37 - and with their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:36 - The half-portion of those who went to war numbered 337,500 sheep;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:27 - Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:2 - Then, if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:8 - When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:6 - May Reuben live and not die, and may his people multiply.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:5 - Joshua told them, "Go in front of the ark of the LORD your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:8 - The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the LORD had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:5 - When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:6 - Three hundred men lapped; the rest of the men kneeled to drink water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:12 - Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - When Gideon heard the report of the dream and its interpretation, he praised God. Then he went back to the Israelite camp and said, "Get up, for the LORD is handing the Midianite army over to you!"

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