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Lexicon :: Strong's H5608 - sāp̄ar

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סָפַר
Transliteration
sāp̄ar
Pronunciation
saw-far'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun, verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1540,1540c

Strong’s Definitions

סָפַר çâphar, saw-far'; a primitive root; 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:—commune, (ac-) count; declare, number, penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 161x

The KJV translates Strong's H5608 in the following manner: scribe (50x), tell (40x), declare (24x), number (23x), count (6x), shew forth (5x), writer (4x), speak (2x), accounted (1x), commune (1x), told out (1x), reckon (1x), penknife (with H8593) (1x), shewing (1x), talk (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 161x
The KJV translates Strong's H5608 in the following manner: scribe (50x), tell (40x), declare (24x), number (23x), count (6x), shew forth (5x), writer (4x), speak (2x), accounted (1x), commune (1x), told out (1x), reckon (1x), penknife (with H8593) (1x), shewing (1x), talk (1x).
verb
  1. to count, recount, relate

    1. (Qal)

      1. to count (things)

      2. to number, take account of, reckon

    2. (Niphal) to be counted, be numbered

    3. (Piel) to recount, rehearse, declare

      1. to recount (something), rehearse

      2. to talk

      3. to count exactly or accurately

    4. (Pual) to be recounted, be rehearsed, be related

      masculine noun
  2. enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe

    1. enumerator, muster-officer, secretary

    2. learned man, scribe

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סָפַר çâphar, saw-far'; a primitive root; 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:—commune, (ac-) count; declare, number, penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.
STRONGS H5608: Abbreviations
סָפַר 107 verb count, Pi. recount, relate (probably ancient denominative from סֵפֶר; Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew; Ethiopic bdb070705 measure Di404); —
Qal27 Perfect 3rd person masculine singular ס׳ 2 Samuel 24:10, 2nd person masculine singular סָפַרְתָּה Psalm 56:9, וְסָפַרְתָּ֫ Leviticus 25:8, etc.; Imperfect יִסְפֹּר Psalm 87:6 + Job 38:37 where read probably יִסְפֹּר (Bu) for MT יְסַפֵּר, יִסְפּוֹר Job 31:4, וַיִּסְפֹּר 2 Chronicles 2:1; 2 Chronicles 2:16, suffix וַיִּסְפְּרֵם Ezra 1:8; 2nd person masculine singular תִּסְפֹּר Job 39:2, תִּסְפּוֹר Job 14:16, תִּסְפָּר־ Deuteronomy 16:9, etc.; Imperative masculine singular סְפֹר Genesis 15:5; masculine plural סִפְרוּ 1 Chronicles 21:2; Psalm 48:13; Infinitive construct לִסְפֹּר Genesis 15:5 + 2 times; Participle סֹפֵר Isaiah 33:18 (twice in verse) (see also סֹפֵר n. below); —
1. count things, to learn their number, with accusative, Genesis 15:5 (twice in verse) (J) 2 Samuel 24:10 + 10 times (+ accusative of congnate meaning with verb 2 Chronicles 2:16); accusative omitted Genesis 41:49 (E); + ל (dativus commodi [dative of benefit] or ethicus [of interest]), Leviticus 15:13, 28; Leviticus 23:15; Leviticus 25:8 (all PH), Deuteronomy 16:9; Ezekiel 44:26; Ezra 1:8; Psalm 87:6; Isaiah 33:8 (absolute), Isaiah 33:18 (but text suspicious, conjectures in Du CheHpt).
2. number = take account of, carefully observe and consider, reckon: תִּסְפּוֹר צְעָדַי Job 14:16 of my steps thou takest account, so Job 31:4; see also Job 38:37 (compare above); נֹדִי סָפַרַתַּה Psalm 56:9 my wandering hast thou reckoned, taken into account (Che reads סִפַּרְתִּי after Greek Version of the LXX).
Niph. Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִסָּפֵר Hosea 2:1 + 4 times; 3rd person masculine plural יִסָּֽפְרוּ 1 Kings 8:5; 2 Chronicles 5:6, וַיִּסָּֽפְרוּ 1 Chronicles 23:3; — be counted, numbered usually with negative, to indicate multitude, מֵרֹב לֹא יִסּ׳ Genesis 16:10 (J) it is not to be counted, for multitude, so Genesis 32:13 (J), 1 Kings 3:8 (|| יִמָּנֶה לֹא), 1 Kings 8:5 (+ id.), 2 Chronicles 5:6 (+ id.); compare Hosea 2:1 (+ יִמַּד לֹאֿ), Jeremiah 33:22 (|| לֹא יִמַּד); positively, only וַיִּסָּֽפְרוּ הַלְּוִיִּם 1 Chronicles 23:3.
Pi.67 Perfect 1st person singular סִפַּ֫רְתִּי Psalm 119:26, סִפַּ֑רְתִּי Psalm 119:13; 3rd person plural סִפְּרוּ Judges 6:13 + 3 times; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יְסַפֵּר Job 38:37 +, 1st person singular אֲסַפֵּר Psalm 22:18 +; cohortative אֲסַפֵּ֑רָה Job 15:7; 1st person plural וַנּסַפֶּר־ Exodus 10:2, etc.; Imperative סַפֵּר Isaiah 43:26, etc.; Infinitive construct (לְ)סַפֵּר Psalm 50:16 + 5 times; Participle מְסַפֵּר Judges 7:13; 2 Kings 8:5; plural מְסַפְּרִים Psalm 19:2; Psalm 78:4; — recount, rehearse, declare:
1. recount something (accusative) to (לְ person) Judges 6:13; Judges 7:13; Genesis 24:66 (J), 1 Samuel 11:5 + 18 times (of rehearsing glorious deeds of י׳ Psalm 44:2; Psalm 73:28; Psalm 78:3; Psalm 78:4; Psalm 79:13); with accusative + בְּ local Ezekiel 12:16, elsewhere of rehearsing name or praise of י׳ Exodus 9:16 (J) Psalm 9:15; Psalm 96:3 = 1 Chronicles 16:24; Psalm 102:22; Jeremiah 51:10; with accusative alone Psalm 9:2; Psalm 19:2; Psalm 119:13 (+ בְּ instrumental), Psalm 145:6 + 8 times Psalms + Isaiah 43:21, all of rehearsing praise of י׳; compare מִסַּפֵּֽר עָֽצְמוּ Psalm 40:6 [Psalm 40:5] they are too great to rehearse with accusative also Jeremiah 23:28, 32; Job 15:17; Job 28:27; Psalm 119:26; accusative omitted Isaiah 43:26, with לְ person Genesis 40:8 (E) + 6 times, with אֶלֿ person Genesis 37:10 (E), with בְּאָזְנֵי Exodus 10:2; with כְּמוֺ (which see) Psalm 73:15; with אֶלֿ concerning Psalm 2:7, compare Psalm 69:27 (Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Ew Ol Gr Bi Che Bae add; in that case read יֹסִ֑פוּ); with עַלֿ concerning + לְ person Joel 1:3.
2. apparently, in weakened sense, talk Psalm 59:13; Psalm 64:6 (with ל concerning), Psalm 73:15 (with כְּמוֺ).
3. count exactly, accurately כָּלעַֿצְמוֺתָ֑י אֲסַפֵּר Psalm 22:18 I can count exactly all my bones (in wasted body). — Psalm 40:6 see below 1, Job 38:37 read יִסְפֹּר.
Pu. be recounted, related, rehearsed: Perfect 3rd person masculine singular לְ סֻפַּר Isaiah 52:15; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular לְ יְסֻפַּר Job 37:20 (clause as subject), + לְ concerning Psalm 22:31; with בְּ local Psalm 88:12; absolute יְסֻפָּ֑ר Habakkuk 1:5.

סֹפֵר, סוֺפֵר noun masculinePsalm 45:2 enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe (properly participle of סָפַר; Aramaic סַפְרָא, bdb070801 id. compare bdb070802 doctus, literatus; O Aramaic ספרא id., Lzb330 Cook85; Phoenician ספר Lzb330); — absolute סֹפֵר Judges 5:14 +, סוֺפֵר 2 Samuel 8:17 +; construct סֹפֵר 2 Kings 12:11 + 2 times, + Jeremiah 52:25 (Gie GFM read הַסּ׳ as || 2 Kings 25:19); plural סֹפְרִים 1 Kings 4:3; Jeremiah 8:8, סוֺ׳ 1 Chronicles 2:55; 2 Chronicles 34:13; construct סֹפְרֵי Esther 3:12; Esther 8:9; —
1.
a. enumerator, muster-officer in description of leaders of Israel משְׁכִים בְּשֵׁבֶט ס׳ Judges 5:14.
b. king's official = secretary 2 Samuel 8:17 = 2 Samuel 20:25 = 1 Chronicles 18:16; 2 Kings 18:18, 37 = Isaiah 36:3, 22; Solomon had two 1 Kings 4:3 (in all these distinguished from מַזְכִּיר); also 2 Kings 19:2 = Isaiah 37:2; Jeremiah 36:10, 12, compare לִשְׁכַּת הַסּ׳ Jeremiah 36:12; Jeremiah 36:20; Jeremiah 36:21, בֵּית הַסּ׳ Jeremiah 37:15, 20; acting as treasurer and paymaster 2 Kings 12:11 2 Chronicles 24:11, — compare Zadok Nehemiah 13:13; — 2 Kings 22:3, 8, 9, 10, 12 2 Chronicles 34:15; 34:18; 34:20; 1 Chronicles 24:6 (Levite); שַׂר הַצָּבָא הַסּ׳ 2 Kings 25:19 = Jeremiah 52:25 (si vera lectio in Kings) implies military authority (but שַׂר הַצּ׳ perhaps gloss GFMJudges 5:14); Ew Sta and others read (as Jeremiah) scribe of general.
c. in Persia, secretaries who wrote out (king's) decrees, according to Esther 3:12; Esther 8:9.
d. 2 Chronicles 26:11 uses ס׳ for muster-officer; 1 Chronicles 2:55 mentions families of סוֺפְרִים; 2 Chronicles 34:13 knows ס׳ as Levites; ס׳ 1 Chronicles 27:32 = man of learning.
2. professional class of learned men, 'scribes' able to read and write Jeremiah 36:26, 32; with writing implements, מָהִיר עֵט ס׳ Psalm 45:2, קֶסֶת הַסּ׳ Ezekiel 9:2, 3, תַּעַר הַסּ׳ Jeremiah 36:23; especially learned in the law, and assuming to issue its precepts, עֵט שֶׁקֶר סֹפְרִים Jeremiah 8:8.
3. specifically of Ezra, at once priest (כֹּהֵן) and learned in the law (סֹפֵר), Ezra 7:11, בְרֵי מִצְוֺת י׳ Di ס׳ Ezra 7:11 [compare Aramaic Ezra 7:12; Ezra 7:21], מָהִיר בְּתוֺרֵת משֶׁה ס׳ Ezra 7:6; Nehemiah 8:1, 4, 9, 13; Nehemiah 12:26, 36.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H5613.
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Strong's Number H5608 matches the Hebrew סָפַר (sāp̄ar),
which occurs 161 times in 154 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 4 (Psa 56:8–Eze 12:16)

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:8 -

You have taken H5608 account H5608 of my wanderings;

Put my tears in Your bottle.

Are they not in Your book?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:12 -

[fn]On account of the sin of their mouth and the word of their lips,

Let them even be caught in their pride,

And on account of curses and [fn]lies which they utter H5608.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 64:5 -

They [fn]hold fast to themselves an evil purpose;

They [fn]talk H5608 of laying snares secretly;

They say, “Who can see them?”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:16 -

Come and hear, all who [fn]fear God,

And I will recount H5608 what He has done for my soul.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:26 -

For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have struck down,

And they recount H5608 the pain of those whom You have [fn]wounded.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:15 -

My mouth shall recount H5608 Your righteousness

And Your salvation all day long;

For I do not know the [fn]sum of them.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:15 -

If I had said, “I will recount H5608 thus,”

Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:28 -

But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;

I have set Lord Yahweh as my refuge,

That I may recount H5608 all Your works.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:1 -

For the choir director. [fn]Al-tashheth. A Psalm of Asaph. [fn]A Song.

We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks,

For Your name is near;

Men recount H5608 Your wondrous deeds.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:3 -

Which we have heard and known,

And our fathers have recounted H5608 to us.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:4 -

We will not conceal them from their children,

But recount H5608 to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh,

And His strength and His wondrous deeds that He has done.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:6 -

That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,

That they may arise and recount H5608 them to their children,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:13 -

But as for us, as Your people and the sheep of Your pasture,

We will give thanks to You forever;

From generation to generation we will recount H5608 Your praise.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:6 -

Yahweh will count H5608 when He registers the peoples,

“This one was born there.” Selah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:11 -

Will Your lovingkindness be recounted H5608 in the grave,

Your faithfulness in [fn]Abaddon?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:3 -

Recount H5608 His glory among the nations,

His wondrous deeds among all the peoples.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:21 -

To recount H5608 the name of Yahweh in Zion

And His praise in Jerusalem,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:22 -

Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,

And recount H5608 His works with joyful singing.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:17 -

I will not die; indeed I will live,

And recount H5608 the works of Yah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:13 -

With my lips I have recounted H5608

All the judgments of Your mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:26 -

I have recounted H5608 my ways, and You have answered me;

Teach me Your statutes.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:18 -

If I should count H5608 them, they would outnumber the sand.

When I awake, I am still with You.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 145:6 -

Vav

Men shall speak of the strength of Your [fn]fearsome acts,

And I will recount H5608 Your greatness.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:10 -

Then you counted H5608 the houses of Jerusalem

And tore down houses to fortify the wall.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:18 -

Your heart will meditate on terror:

“Where is he who counts H5608?

Where is he who weighs?

Where is he who counts H5608 the towers?”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:3 - Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe H5608, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:22 - Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe H5608, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:2 - Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the household with Shebna the scribe H5608, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:21 -

“The people whom I formed for Myself

Will recount H5608 My praise.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:26 -

[fn]Bring Me to remembrance, let us enter into judgment together;

Recount H5608 your cause, that you may be proved right.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:15 -

Thus He will sprinkle many nations,

Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him;

For what had not been told H5608 them they will see,

And what they had not heard they will understand.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:8 -

“How can you say, ‘We are wise,

And the law of Yahweh is with us’?

But behold, the lying pen of the scribes H5608

Has made it into a lie.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:27 - who intend to make My people forget My name by their dreams which they recount H5608 to one another, just as their fathers forgot My name because of Baal?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:28 - “The prophet who has a dream may recount H5608 his dream, but let him who has My word speak My word in truth. What does straw have in common with grain?” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:32 - “Behold, I am against those who have prophesied lying dreams,” declares Yahweh, “and who recounted H5608 them and led My people astray by their lying and reckless boasting; yet I did not send them, and I did not command them, and they do not furnish this people the slightest benefit,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:22 - ‘As the host of heaven cannot be counted H5608 and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:10 - Then Baruch read from the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe H5608, in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the house of Yahweh, in the hearing of all the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:12 - And he went down to the king’s house, into the scribe’s H5608 chamber. And behold, all the officials were sitting there—Elishama the scribe H5608, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:20 -

So they went to the king in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe H5608, and they declared all the words in the hearing of the king.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:21 - Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe H5608. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king as well as in the hearing of all the officials who stood beside the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:23 - And it happened that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s H5608 knife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll [fn]was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:26 - And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to take Baruch the scribe H5608 and Jeremiah the prophet, but Yahweh hid them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:32 -

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe H5608, and he wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many [fn]similar words were added to them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:15 - Then the officials were angry at Jeremiah and struck him, and they put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe H5608 because they had made that house into the prison.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:20 - “But now, please listen, O my lord the king; please let my supplication [fn]come before you, and do not make me return to the house of Jonathan the scribe H5608, that I may not die there.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:10 -

Yahweh has brought [fn]about our righteousness;

Come and let us recount H5608 in Zion

The work of Yahweh our God!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25 - And from the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and seven [fn]of the king’s advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe H5608 of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:2 - And behold, six men were coming from the direction of the upper gate which faces north, each with his shattering weapon in his hand; and among them was a certain man clothed in linen with a [fn]scribe’s H5608 case at his loins. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:3 -

Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub on which it had been, to the threshold of the house of Yahweh. And He called to the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the [fn]scribe’s H5608 case.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16 - “But I will [fn]spare a few of them from sword, famine, and pestilence that they may recount H5608 all their abominations among the nations where they go, and [fn]may know that I am Yahweh.”

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