Mispar מִסְפָּר

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Mispar
מִסְפָּר
Transliterationmispar
Strong's numberH4557
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glossnumber
Occurrences134 in 129 verses
Most frequent inNumbers (33)

Mispar (Hebrew מִסְפָּר, Strong's H4557) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “number”. It occurs 134 times in 129 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) number, tale
1a) number
1a1) number
1a2) innumerable (with negative)
1a3) few, numerable (alone)
1a4) by count, in number, according to number (with prep)
1b) recounting, relation

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVnumber (109), few (6), innumerable (3), all (3), time (2), sum (2), telling (1), tale (1), numbers (1), numbered (1), account (1), infinite (1)
BSBnumber (32), according to the number (13), counting (12), only a few (3), during the few (3), one for each (2), their number (2), total (2), is the list (2), numbers (2), count (2), few (2), and 34 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Mispar, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Psalms

Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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