38 occurrences in 13 translations

'Number' in the Bible

And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had only a small number of children, and their family was not as fertile as the children of Judah.

Six PeopleSixteen

These, whose names are given, were chiefs in their families, and their families became very great in number.

People Multiplying

And to the east his limits went as far as the starting point of the waste land, ending at the river Euphrates, because their cattle were increased in number in the land of Gilead.

Owning Livestock

For a great number fell mortally wounded, because the battle was of God. And these Israelites settled in their territory until the exile [by Assyria more than five centuries later].

The half-tribe of Manasseh settled in the land from Bashan as far as Baal Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They grew in number.

Fractions, One Half

And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

GenealogiesTwenty Thousand And Up

And with them, recorded in generations by their families, were bands of fighting-men, thirty-six thousand of them, for they had a great number of wives and sons.

PolygamyThirty Thousand And Up

And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.

Twenty Thousand And Up

All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.

Twenty Thousand And Up

And the sons of Ulam were men of war, bowmen, and had a great number of sons and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All these were the sons of Benjamin.

GrandchildrenArchers, In ArmiesWarriors

The total number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their trusted positions.

SeersVillages

And some of them are over the vessels of service, for by number they bring them in, and by number they take them out.

And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.

Thirty

And this is the number of the men equipped for military service, who came to David to Hebron, to transfer the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of Jehovah.

Weapons

When they were few in number,very few indeed, and temporary residents in Canaan

ForeignersCymbals

And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

Counting Soldiers

Joab replied, “May the Lord multiply the number of His people a hundred times over! My lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?”

God Multipling People

And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew 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 David saith unto God, 'Did not I -- I say to number the people? Yea, I it is who have sinned, and done great evil: and these, the flock, what did they? O Jehovah, my God, let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father, and not on Thy people -- to be plagued.'

NumberingLonelinessAngst

And cedar-trees even without number, for the Zidonians and the Tyrians brought in cedar-trees in abundance to David.

Abundance, MaterialCedarCedar Wood

But the word of the Lord came to me saying, You have taken lives without number and made great wars; I will not let you be the builder of a house for my name, because of the lives you have taken on the earth before my eyes.

Warfare, Nature OfSheddingSolomon's Temple

Further, you have workmen in abundance: stonecutters and stonemasons and carpenters, and all men who are skillful in every kind of work.

CarpentersWisdom, Human NatureMen Workingcraftsmanship

Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.

craftsmanship

Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

ThirtyThirty Thousand And Up

Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah had only a small number of sons, so they were grouped together as one family.

And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the first; and Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had a great number.

These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.

Maturity, PhysicalMiddle Age

Since, according to David's final instructions, the list above contains the total number of descendants of Levi from the age of 20 years and upward,

Middle Age

And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:

MoonSabbath, In Ot

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 psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:

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

So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.

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

Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.

RankCalendarsTwenty Thousand And UpFamily Conflict

But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

StarsTwenty

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

CensusBooks, Not Preserved

And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me a great number of sons) he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

Kingdom Of God, Coming OfThrone

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Strong's
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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