Miçpâr — H4557

Definition

masculine noun

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

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

Usually translated as

number, few, all, abundance, account, infinite, numbered, tale, telling, time, finite

Origin

from H5608

• Derived from Çâphar (H5608)

Greek equivalents

• arithmós (G706)
• biblíon (G975)
• diḗgesis (G1335)
• katarithméō (G2674)
• plēthos (G4128)

Occurrences

Miçpâr occurs 132 times in 128 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Exodus (2), Leviticus (3), Numbers (33), Deuteronomy (4), Joshua (2), Judges (5), 1 Samuel (3), 2 Samuel (5), 1 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (18), 2 Chronicles (5), Ezra (4), Nehemiah (1), Esther (1), Job (13), Psalms (6), Ecclesiastes (3), Song of Songs (1), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (5), Ezekiel (5), Daniel (1), Hosea (1), Joel (1)

• Genesis 34:30 — And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number (מִסְפָּ֔ר), they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
• Genesis 41:49 — And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number (מִסְפָּֽר).
• Exodus 16:16 — This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number (מִסְפַּר֙) of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
• Exodus 23:26 — There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number (מִסְפַּ֥ר) of thy days I will fulfil.
• Leviticus 25:15 — According to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֤ר) of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
• Leviticus 25:15 — According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֥ר) of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
• Leviticus 25:16 — According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number (מִסְפַּ֣ר) of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
• Leviticus 25:50 — And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
• Numbers 1:2 — Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of their names, every male by their polls;
• Numbers 1:18 — And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
• Numbers 1:20 — And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֤ר) of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 1:22 — Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֤ר) of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 1:24 — Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 1:26 — Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 1:28 — Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 1:30 — Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 1:32 — Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 1:34 — Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 1:36 — Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 1:38 — Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 1:40 — Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 1:42 — Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
• Numbers 3:22 — Those that were numbered of them, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
• Numbers 3:28 — In the number (בְּמִסְפַּר֙) of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
• Numbers 3:34 — And those that were numbered of them, according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר) of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.
• Numbers 3:40 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number (מִסְפַּ֥ר) of their names.
• Numbers 3:43 — And all the firstborn males by the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֥ר) of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
• Numbers 9:20 — And so it was, when the cloud was a few (מִסְפָּ֖ר) days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.
• Numbers 14:29 — Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number (מִסְפַּרְכֶ֔ם), from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
• Numbers 14:34 — After the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֨ר) of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
• Numbers 15:12 — According to the number (כַּמִּסְפָּ֖ר) that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.
• Numbers 15:12 — According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number (כְּמִסְפָּרָֽם).
• Numbers 23:10 — Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number (וּמִסְפָּ֖ר) of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
• Numbers 26:53 — Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number (בְּמִסְפַּ֥ר) of names.
• Numbers 29:18 — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number (בְּמִסְפָּרָ֖ם), after the manner:
• Numbers 29:21 — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number (בְּמִסְפָּרָ֖ם), after the manner:
• Numbers 29:24 — Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number (בְּמִסְפָּרָ֖ם), after the manner:
• Numbers 29:27 — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number (בְּמִסְפָּרָ֖ם), after the manner:
• Numbers 29:30 — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number (בְּמִסְפָּרָ֖ם), after the manner:
• Numbers 29:33 — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number (בְּמִסְפָּרָ֖ם), after the manner:
• Numbers 29:37 — Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number (בְּמִסְפָּרָ֖ם), after the manner:
• Numbers 31:36 — And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number (מִסְפַּ֣ר) three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:
• Deuteronomy 4:27 — And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number (מִסְפָּ֔ר) among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
• Deuteronomy 25:2 — And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number (בְּמִסְפָּֽר).
• Deuteronomy 32:8 — When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number (לְמִסְפַּ֖ר) of the children of Israel.
• Deuteronomy 33:6 — Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few (מִסְפָּֽר).
• Joshua 4:5 — And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number (לְמִסְפַּ֖ר) of the tribes of the children of Israel:
• Joshua 4:8 — And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number (לְמִסְפַּ֖ר) of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
• Judges 6:5 — For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number (מִסְפָּ֑ר): and they entered into the land to destroy it.
• Judges 7:6 — And the number (מִסְפַּ֞ר) of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.