מִסְפָּר mispar
Hebrew word for “number” · Strong’s H4557 · used 134 times in 129 verses
Meaning
1) number, tale; 1a) number;
How it is translated
Glosses given for mispar in context, with how often each is used:
- number 131
- measure 1
- recounting 1
- numbers 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers | 34 | 2.1 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 21 | 2.0 | |
| Job | 13 | 1.6 | |
| Psalms | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Judges | 5 | 0.5 | |
| 2 Samuel | 5 | 0.5 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 5 | 0.4 | |
| Ezekiel | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Leviticus | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Deuteronomy | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Ezra | 4 | 1.1 |
Also in 13 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
Numbers 1 (14), Numbers 29 (7), Numbers 3 (5), 1 Chronicles 23 (4), Leviticus 25 (3), Judges 7 (3), 1 Chronicles 27 (3), Ezekiel 4 (3), Numbers 14 (2), Joshua 4 (2)
Forms
- מספר 65
- במספר 35
- מספרם 8
- במספרם 7
- ומספר 5
- למספר 5
- כמספר 2
- למספרם 2
- מספרכם 1
- כמספרם 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with mispar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- מַעַל maal “above” 22
- שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 30
- עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 23
- תּוֹלֵדוֹת toledah “generation” 13
- שֵׁם shem “name” 21
- צָבָא tsava “Hosts” 18
- מִשְׁפָּחָה mishpachah “family” 14
- מֵאָה meah “hundred” 17
- אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 15
- אַיִן ayin “nothing” 17
- אָב av “father” 19
- חֹדֶשׁ chodesh “month” 12
Key verses
The verses using mispar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 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…
- Numbers 14:34 — After the number 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…
- 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 of the…
- 1 Chronicles 25:1 — Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with…
- Job 1:5 — And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt…
- Job 5:9 — Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
- Ecclesiastes 6:12 — For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him…
- Isaiah 40:26 — Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of…
- Jeremiah 2:32 — Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
- Jeremiah 44:28 — Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the…
- Daniel 9:2 — In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would…
- Hosea 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place…
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.