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Lexicon :: Strong's H4557 - mispār

Aa
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 2 / 3 (Jdg 21:23–Job 25:3)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:23 - And the children of Benjamin did so; they took enough wives for their number from those who danced, whom they caught. Then they went and returned to their inheritance, and they rebuilt the cities and dwelt in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:4 - Then they said, “What is the trespass offering which we shall return to Him?” They answered, “Five golden tumors and five golden rats, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines. For the same plague was on all of you and on your lords.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18 - and the golden rats, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and country villages, even as far as the large stone of Abel on which they set the ark of the LORD, which stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:7 - Now the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was one full year and four months.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:11 - And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:15 - So they arose and went over by number, twelve from Benjamin, followers of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:20 - Yet again there was war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was born to the giant.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:2 - So the king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, “Now go throughout all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the number of the people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:9 - Then Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king. And there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:31 - And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:2 - The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:40 - All these were the children of Asher, heads of their fathers’ houses, choice men, mighty men of valor, chief leaders. And they were recorded by genealogies among the army fit for battle; their number was twenty-six thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:28 - Now some of them were in charge of the serving vessels, for they brought them in and took them out by count.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:11 - And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam the son of a Hachmonite, chief of the captains;[fn] he had lifted up his spear against three hundred, killed by him at one time.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:23 - Now these were the numbers of the divisions that were equipped for war, and came to David at Hebron to turn over the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the LORD:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:19 - When you were few in number,
Indeed very few, and strangers in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:2 - So David said to Joab and to the leaders of the people, “Go, number Israel from Beersheba to Dan, and bring the number of them to me that I may know it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:5 - Then Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to David. All Israel had one million one hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and Judah had four hundred and seventy thousand men who drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:4 - and cedar trees in abundance; for the Sidonians and those from Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:16 - “Of gold and silver and bronze and iron there is no limit. Arise and begin working, and the LORD be with you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:3 - Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and above; and the number of individual males was thirty-eight thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:24 - These were the sons of Levi by their fathers’ houses—the heads of the fathers’ houses as they were counted individually by the number of their names, who did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and above.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:27 - For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:31 - and at every presentation of a burnt offering to the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the New Moons and on the set feasts, by number according to the ordinance governing them, regularly before the LORD;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:1 - Moreover David and the captains of the army separated for the service some of the sons of Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, stringed instruments, and cymbals. And the number of the skilled men performing their service was:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:7 - So the number of them, with their brethren who were instructed in the songs of the LORD, all who were skillful, was two hundred and eighty-eight.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:1 - And the children of Israel, according to their number, the heads of fathers’ houses, the captains of thousands and hundreds and their officers, served the king in every matter of the military divisions. These divisions came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, each division having twenty-four thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:23 - But David did not take the number of those twenty years old and under, because the LORD had said He would multiply Israel like the stars of the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:24 - Joab the son of Zeruiah began a census, but he did not finish, for wrath came upon Israel because of this census; nor was the number recorded in the account of the chronicles of King David.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3 - with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without number who came with him out of Egypt—the Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:11 - Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men who went out to war by companies, according to the number on their roll as prepared by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:12 - The total number of chief officers[fn] of the mighty men of valor was two thousand six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:32 - And the number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:7 - Then Josiah gave the lay people lambs and young goats from the flock, all for Passover offerings for all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, as well as three thousand cattle; these were from the king’s possessions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:9 - This is the number of them: thirty gold platters, one thousand silver platters, twenty-nine knives,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:2 - Those who came with Zerubbabel were Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar,[fn] Bigvai, Rehum,[fn] and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:4 - They also kept the Feast of Tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 8:34 - with the number and weight of everything. All the weight was written down at that time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:7 - Those who came with Zerubbabel were Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth,[fn] Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:11 - On that day the number of those who were killed in Shushan the citadel was brought to the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5 - So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed[fn] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did regularly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:6 - As for that night, may darkness seize it;
May it not rejoice[fn] among the days of the year,
May it not come into the number of the months.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:9 - Who does great things, and unsearchable,
Marvelous things without number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:10 - He does great things past finding out,
Yes, wonders without number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:5 - Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You;
You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:20 - The wicked man writhes with pain all his days,
And the number of years is hidden from the oppressor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:22 - For when a few years are finished,
I shall go the way of no return.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:21 - For what does he care about his household after him,
When the number of his months is cut in half?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:33 - The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him;
Everyone shall follow him,
As countless have gone before him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:3 - Is there any number to His armies?
Upon whom does His light not rise?

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