'Count' in the Bible

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

He took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “Your offspring will be that numerous.”

The Angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be too many to count.”

“When the man with the discharge has been cured of it, he is to count seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe his body in fresh water; he will be clean.

When she is cured of her discharge, she is to count seven days, and after that she will be clean.

“You are to count seven complete weeks starting from the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the presentation offering.

You are to count 50 days until the day after the seventh Sabbath and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.

“You are to count seven sabbatical years, seven times seven years, so that the time period of the seven sabbatical years amounts to 49.

He is to rededicate his time of consecration to the Lord and to bring a year-old male lamb as a restitution offering. But do not count the previous period, because his consecrated hair became defiled.

“You, Eleazar the priest, and the family leaders of the community are to take a count of what was captured, man and beast.

“You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.

The Lord’s anger burned against Israel again, and He stirred up David against them to say: “Go, count the people of Israel and Judah.”

Whenever they saw there was a large amount of money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the high priest would go to the Lord’s temple and count the money found there and tie it up in bags.

Some of them were in charge of the utensils used in worship. They would count them when they brought them in and when they took them out.

Satan stood up against Israel and incited David to count the people of Israel.

So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count Israel from Beer-sheba to Dan and bring a report to me so I can know their number.”

But he did not include Levi and Benjamin in the count because the king’s command was detestable to him.

David said to God, “Wasn’t I the one who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted very wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? My Lord God, please let Your hand be against me and against my father’s family, but don’t let the plague be against Your people.”

David didn’t count the men aged 20 or under, for the Lord had said He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Joab son of Zeruiah began to count them, but he didn’t complete it. There was wrath against Israel because of this census, and the number was not entered in the Historical Record of King David.

For then You would count my stepsbut would not take note of my sin.

Can you count the months they are pregnantso you can know the time they give birth?

I can count all my bones;people look and stare at me.

Go around Zion, encircle it;count its towers,

a time to search and a time to count as lost;a time to keep and a time to throw away;

The remaining trees of its forestwill be so few in numberthat a child could count them.

After he is cleansed, he is to count off seven days for himself.