'Number' in the Bible

And the things which I have said to you before a number of witnesses, give to those of the faith, so that they may be teachers of others.

For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,