מִסְפָּר miçpâr

Hebrew · Strong's H4557 · pronounced mis-pawr' · used 134 times in 129 verses

Meaning

a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration

In the King James Version: [phrase] abundance, account, [idiom] all, [idiom] few, (in-) finite, (certain) number(-ed), tale, telling, [phrase] time.

Derivation: from H5608 (סָפַר);

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Where it is used

Genesis 34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
Genesis 41:49 So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.
Exodus 16:16 This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Each one is to gather as much as he needs. You may take an omer for each person in your tent.’”
Exodus 23:26 No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
Leviticus 25:15 You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.
Leviticus 25:16 You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.
Leviticus 25:50 He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
Numbers 1:2 “Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.
Numbers 1:18 and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,
Numbers 1:20 From the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:22 From the sons of Simeon, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:24 From the sons of Gad, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:26 From the sons of Judah, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:28 From the sons of Issachar, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:30 From the sons of Zebulun, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:32 From the sons of Joseph: From the sons of Ephraim, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:34 And from the sons of Manasseh, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:36 From the sons of Benjamin, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:38 From the sons of Dan, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:40 From the sons of Asher, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 1:42 From the sons of Naphtali, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
Numbers 3:22 The number of all the males a month old or more was 7,500.
Numbers 3:28 The number of all the males a month old or more was 8,600. They were responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.
Numbers 3:34 The number of all the males a month old or more was 6,200.
Numbers 3:40 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or more, and list their names.
Numbers 3:43 The total number of the firstborn males a month old or more, listed by name, was 22,273.
Numbers 9:20 Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days, and they would camp at the LORD’s command and set out at the LORD’s command.
Numbers 14:29 Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
Numbers 14:34 In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
Numbers 15:12 This is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.
Numbers 23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”
Numbers 26:53 “The land is to be divided among the tribes as an inheritance, according to the number of names.
Numbers 29:18 along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 29:21 along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 29:24 along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 29:27 along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 29:30 along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 29:33 along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 29:37 along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed.
Numbers 31:36 This was the half portion for those who had gone to war: 337,500 sheep,
Deuteronomy 4:27 Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Deuteronomy 25:2 If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Deuteronomy 33:6 Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”
Joshua 4:5 and said to them, “Cross over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of Israel,
Joshua 4:8 Thus the Israelites did as Joshua had commanded them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each tribe of Israel, just as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them to the camp, where they set them down.
Judges 6:5 For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
Judges 7:6 And the number of those who lapped the water with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men; all the others knelt to drink.
Judges 7:12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Judges 7:15 When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”
Judges 21:23 The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
1 Samuel 6:4 “What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.
1 Samuel 6:18 The number of gold rats also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities belonging to the five rulers—the fortified cities and their outlying villages. And the large rock on which they placed the ark of the LORD stands to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.
1 Samuel 27:7 And the time that David lived in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.
2 Samuel 2:11 And the length of time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
2 Samuel 2:15 So they got up and were counted off—twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth son of Saul, and twelve for David.
2 Samuel 21:20 And there was also a battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,
2 Samuel 24:2 So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”
2 Samuel 24:9 And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.
1 Kings 18:31 And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said, “Israel shall be your name.”