'Number' in the Bible

When I heard these words, I sat down and wept. I mourned for a number of days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.

And further, in those days the chiefs of Judah sent a number of letters to Tobiah, and his letters came to them.

For in Judah there were a number of people who had made an agreement by oath with him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah, the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken as his wife the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.

Now the town was wide and great: but the people in it were only a small number, and the houses had not been put up.

Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;

The number of all the people together was forty-two thousand, three hundred and sixty;

And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

The total number of Perez’s descendants, who settled in Jerusalem, was 468 capable men.

That day they offered a large number of sacrifices, and they rejoiced, because God had caused them to rejoice enthusiastically. Their wives and children rejoiced, so that Jerusalem's joy was heard from a long distance.

Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.