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H4557 מִסְפָּר (miçpâr) mis-pawr'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from 5608; a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration

KJV Usage: + abundance, account, X all, X few, (in-)finite, (certain) number(-ed), tale, telling, + time

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

מִסְפָּר (mis.par) — number. 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

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m · ספר

Know

report, account, list = an oral or written account of something

JDG 7:15 · 1CH 11:11 · 1CH 25:1 · JOB 31:37

Measure

counting = action by which humans determine the number of objects

1CH 9:28 · 1CH 9:28 · EZR 8:34

Frequency

Collocation: אֵין מִסְפָּר

counting literally: there is no counting (of it); hence: = state in which events cannot be counted or measured because of their frequency or intensity

JOB 5:9 · JOB 9:10 · PSA 40:13 · PSA 147:5 · JER 2:32

Quantity

Collocation: אֵין מִסְפָּר

counting literally: there is no counting (of it); hence: = state in which objects cannot be counted or measured because of their abundance

GEN 41:49 · JDG 6:5 · JDG 7:12 · 1CH 22:4 · 1CH 22:16 · 2CH 12:3 · JOB 21:33 · JOB 25:3 · PSA 104:25 · PSA 105:34 · SNG 6:8 · JER 46:23 · JOL 1:6

Quantity | Frequency

few = state in which objects are relatively low in quantity, or in which events are relatively low in frequency

GEN 34:30 · NUM 9:20 · DEU 4:27 · DEU 33:6 · 1CH 16:19 · JOB 16:22 · PSA 105:12 · ECC 2:3 · ECC 5:17 · ECC 6:12 · ISA 10:19 · JER 44:28 · EZK 12:16

name

Names of People | ≈ מִסְפֶּרֶת

Mispar = man, also known as Mispereth; ► returned from exile with Zerubbabel

EZR 2:2

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מִסְפָּר 133 n.m. number, tale base

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