169 occurrences

'Number' in the Bible

I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered.

Fruitfulness, NaturalDust, Figurative UseUncountableNumerous As DustImpossible For People

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and attack me and I will be destroyed, I and my household.”

Trouble, Causes OfNosesSmellsFew PeopleTroubling IndividualsNations Attacking IsraelFamily Problems

All the persons who came from the loins of Jacob were seventy in number, but Joseph was already in Egypt.

SeventySeventies

Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the number of persons in them; according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb.

SmallnessEating Before GodAccording To PeopleFew PeopleNeighbours

A mixed multitude also went up with them, along with flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.

MultitudesLargenessMixed MultitudeMixing People

This is what the Lord has commanded, ‘Gather of it every man as much as he should eat; you shall take an omer apiece according to the number of persons each of you has in his tent.’”

TentsGathering FoodAccording To People

There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.

Barren WomenBarrennessMiscarrying AnimalsInfertility

Then you shall make its lamps seven in number; and they shall mount its lamps so as to shed light on the space in front of it.

LampsSheddingSeven Lights

“When you take a census of the sons of Israel to number them, then each one of them shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord, when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.

CollectionsNatural Disasters

This is the number of the things for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were numbered according to the command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops.

According To Time

In proportion to the extent of the years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for it is a number of crops he is selling to you.

According To Timepotential

He then with his purchaser shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years. It is like the days of a hired man that he shall be with him.

HiringWagesAccording To Time

I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted.

BeastsNumbers ReducingAnimals Killing

“Take a census of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, every male, head by head

Moses, Life OfCensus

from twenty years old and upward, whoever is able to go out to war in Israel, you and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

Military ServiceAaron, Life Eventsdivision

and they assembled all the congregation together on the first of the second month. Then they registered by ancestry in their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head,

CongregationAssembling IsraelMonth 2Family First

Now the sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Firstborn Sons

Of the sons of Simeon, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, their numbered men, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Of the sons of Gad, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Of the sons of Judah, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Of the sons of Issachar, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Of the sons of Zebulun, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Of the sons of Manasseh, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Of the sons of Benjamin, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Of the sons of Dan, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Of the sons of Asher, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

Of the sons of Naphtali, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

“Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, nor shall you take their census among the sons of Israel.

Counting Levites

Number the sons of Levi by their fathers’ households, by their families; every male from a month old and upward you shall number.”

Age Ranges Of Levites

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the sons of Israel from a month old and upward, and make a list of their names.

Census

and all the firstborn males by the number of names from a month old and upward, for their numbered men were 22,273.

Twenty Thousand And Up

from thirty years and upward to fifty years old, you shall number them; all who enter to perform the service to do the work in the tent of meeting.

Age Ranges Of Levites

“As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers’ households;

from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, you shall number them, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the tent of meeting.

Middle AgeAge Ranges Of Levites

your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.

Maturity, PhysicalTwentyDying In The WildernessDeath As PunishmentDying In The Desert Complaining

According to the number of days which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day you shall bear your guilt a year, even forty years, and you will know My opposition.

Iniquity, Punishment ForKnowledge, Of GodThe Number FortyOne DayMore Than One Month40 To 50 YearsGod OpposingAccording To TimeComplainingexploringconsequenceswanderingland

According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do for everyone according to their number.

According To Things

“Who can count the dust of Jacob,Or number the fourth part of Israel?Let me die the death of the upright,And let my end be like his!”

UncountableNumerous As DustA Fourth PartDeath Of God's PeopleMany In Israelcredibility

“Among these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

According To People

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram and for the lambs, by their number according to the ordinance;

Making Cereal Offerings And Libations

The half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500,

Three To Nine Hundred ThousandHalf Of PossessionsPossessing Sheep

Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had an exceedingly large number of livestock. So when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that it was indeed a place suitable for livestock,

LivestockLargenessHerdsReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you.

RemnantScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering IsraelDriven Away By GodFew People

“The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

Adoption, nature ofFew PeopleMany In IsraelGod's Love For IsraelAffection

then it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt.

Sin, God's Judgment OnAdvice On Beating People

You shall answer and say before the Lord your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.

NationalismNomadsWanderersPeople MultiplyingFew Peoplesyriawandering

Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

Few People

“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,When He separated the sons of man,He set the boundaries of the peoplesAccording to the number of the sons of Israel.

God, Activity OfGod's Activity In The NationsAdam, DescendantsBoundariesMonogamySeparationThe Most HighLanguages SeparatedAccording To PeopleGod Saves From Sin And DeathGod Sets BoundariesRaceborders

and Joshua said to them, “Cross again to the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel.

The MiddleStones As MonumentsTwelve TribesTwelve ThingsIn The Jordan

Thus the sons of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, just as the Lord spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the lodging place and put them down there.

The MiddleStones As MonumentsTwelve TribesTwelve ThingsIn The Jordan

For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in like locusts for number, both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to devastate it.

InsectsMany CombatantsLocustsTentsGrasshoppersUncountable

Now the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was 300 men; but all the rest of the people kneeled to drink water.

Three Hundred And Above

Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore.

Many CombatantsLocustsSandCamelsMany CreaturesSand And Gravel

So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men out of their whole number, valiant men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it; and they said to them, “Go, search the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

SpiesFive PeopleSpying

The sons of Benjamin did so, and took wives according to their number from those who danced, whom they carried away. And they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the cities and lived in them.

Groups going home

Then they said, “What shall be the guilt offering which we shall return to Him?” And they said, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for one plague was on all of you and on your lords.

GoldMiceFive PeopleFive AnimalsFive Things

and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages. The large stone on which they set the ark of the Lord is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.

VillagesMiceFive PeopleFive ThingsPlaces To This Day

Saul said to the people who were with him, “Number now and see who has gone from us.” And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

Counting SoldiersGone Away

David rose up and went, he and his men, and struck down two hundred men among the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. So Saul gave him Michal his daughter for a wife.

The Number Two HundredForeskinsGiving In Marriagemanhood

The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

One Year

There was war at Gath again, where there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also had been born to the giant.

FingersGiantsDefectivenessToesSix ThingsFingers Of PeopleTwenty Some

Now again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”

Provoking GodTribes Of IsraelAnger Of God, Examples OfGod Urging

The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, “Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and register the people, that I may know the number of the people.”

Census

And Joab gave the number of the registration of the people to the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

SwordsTribes Of IsraelThree To Nine Hundred Thousand

Also the ships of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir a very great number of almug trees and precious stones.

GoldSeafaringCommerceShips For TradingJewellery

Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”

The Number TwelveJacob, The PatriarchGod Renaming PeopleTwelve TribesTwelve Things

When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.

Miracles Of ElishaTwo AnimalsFortiesAnimals KillingCursing The Ungodlyhumorteenager

The sons of Tola were Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam and Samuel, heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Tola were mighty men of valor in their generations; their number in the days of David was 22,600.

GenealogiesTwenty Thousand And Up

All these were the sons of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, heads of the princes. And the number of them enrolled by genealogy for service in war was 26,000 men.

Twenty Thousand And Up

When they were only a few in number,Very few, and strangers in it,

ForeignersCymbals

So David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, and bring me word that I may know their number.”

Counting Soldiers

Joab gave the number of the census of all the people to David. And all Israel were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword; and Judah was 470,000 men who drew the sword.

Tribes Of IsraelThree To Nine Hundred ThousandA Million And More

But he did not number Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s command was abhorrent to Joab.

Census

and timbers of cedar logs beyond number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought large quantities of cedar timber to David.

Abundance, MaterialCedarCedar Wood

The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number by census of men was 38,000.

ThirtyThirty Thousand And Up

These were the sons of Levi according to their fathers’ households, even the heads of the fathers’ households of those of them who were counted, in the number of names by their census, doing the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from twenty years old and upward.

Maturity, PhysicalMiddle Age

and to offer all burnt offerings to the Lord, on the sabbaths, the new moons and the fixed festivals in the number set by the ordinance concerning them, continually before the Lord.

MoonSabbath, In Ot

Moreover, David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service some of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with lyres, harps and cymbals; and the number of those who performed their service was:

CommanderHarpsLyreMinistry, Nature OfMusicMusical Instruments, types ofServanthood, And Worship Of GodCymbalsInstrumentalistsLyres

Their number who were trained in singing to the Lord, with their relatives, all who were skillful, was 288.

SingersOrchestrastraining

and his relatives, capable men, were 2,700 in number, heads of fathers’ households. And King David made them overseers of the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of the Manassites concerning all the affairs of God and of the king.

Two Thousand

Joab the son of Zeruiah had begun to count them, but did not finish; and because of this, wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not included in the account of the chronicles of King David.

CensusBooks, Not Preserved

with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.

ChariotsMany CombatantsAfricaCavalryThousandsFifty To Ninety Thousand

Indeed the army of the Arameans came with a small number of men; yet the Lord delivered a very great army into their hands, because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joash.

LargenessLarge Armies

Moreover, Uzziah had an army ready for battle, which entered combat by divisions according to the number of their muster, prepared by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the official, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king’s officers.

Secretary

The total number of the heads of the households, of valiant warriors, was 2,600.

Two Thousand

Wherefore, the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Aram; and they defeated him and carried away from him a great number of captives and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who inflicted him with heavy casualties.

enemies, of Israel and JudahAttackingPrisoners

The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the Lord.

OfferingsOne HundredThe Number Two HundredSeventies

For Hezekiah king of Judah had contributed to the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep, and the princes had contributed to the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep; and a large number of priests consecrated themselves.

GoatsA Thousand AnimalsSeven Thousand

And he took courage and rebuilt all the wall that had been broken down and erected towers on it, and built another outside wall and strengthened the Millo in the city of David, and made weapons and shields in great number.

ArmourShieldsTowersWeaponsArmor ProtectionBuilding Jerusalem's Wallrebuildingreinforcement

Now this was their number: 30 gold dishes, 1,000 silver dishes, 29 duplicates;

KnifesThirtyA Thousand ThingsTwenty Some

These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum and Baanah.The number of the men of the people of Israel:

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ὄχλος 
Ochlos 
Usage: 172

חקר 
Cheqer 
Usage: 12

יחשׂ 
Yachas 
Usage: 21

כּבד 
Kobed 
Usage: 4

מכסה 
Mikcah 
Usage: 2

מנה מנא 
M@na' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

מנה 
manah 
Usage: 28

מנין 
Minyan (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

מספּר 
Micpar 
Usage: 132

מעט 
Ma`at 
Usage: 22

מפקד 
Miphqad 
Usage: 4

מת 
Math 
men , few , few , friends , number , persons , small , with
Usage: 21

ספר 
Caphar 
Usage: 161

ספר 
C@phar 
Usage: 1

ספרה 
C@phorah 
Usage: 1

עדף 
`adaph 
Usage: 9

פּקד 
Paqad 
Usage: 303

פּקדּה 
P@quddah 
Usage: 32

ἀριθμέω 
Arithmeo 
Usage: 1

ἀριθμός 
Arithmos 
Usage: 18

ἐγκρίνω 
Egkrino 
make of the number
Usage: 1

καταλέγω 
Katalego 
Usage: 1

καταριθμέω 
Katarithmeo 
Usage: 1

λογίζομαι 
Logizomai 
Usage: 40

συγκαταψηφίζω 
Sugkatapsephizo 
Usage: 1

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