'Count' in the Bible

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

The Lord took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars -- if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."

I will greatly multiply your descendants," the Lord's angel added, "so that they will be too numerous to count."

But you said, 'I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.'"

If any household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next-door neighbor are to take a lamb according to the number of people -- you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.

"'When the man with the discharge becomes clean from his discharge he is to count off for himself seven days for his purification, and he must wash his clothes, bathe in fresh water, and be clean.

"'If she becomes clean from her discharge, then she is to count off for herself seven days, and afterward she will be clean.

"'You must count for yourselves seven weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you bring the wave offering sheaf; they must be complete weeks.

You must count fifty days -- until the day after the seventh Sabbath -- and then you must present a new grain offering to the Lord.

"'You must count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years.

"Only the tribe of Levi you must not number or count with the other Israelites.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let the end of my life be like theirs."

and said to him, "Your servants have taken a count of the men who were in the battle, who were under our authority, and not one is missing.

You must count seven weeks; you must begin to count them from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain.

The Lord's anger again raged against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go count Israel and Judah."

Your servant stands among your chosen people; they are a great nation that is too numerous to count or number.

An adversary opposed Israel, inciting David to count how many warriors Israel had.

David told Joab and the leaders of the army, "Go, count the number of warriors from Beer Sheba to Dan. Then bring back a report to me so I may know how many we have."

David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Joab son of Zeruiah started to count the men but did not finish. God was angry with Israel because of this, so the number was not recorded in the scroll called The Annals of King David.

"Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.

Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

Do you count the months they must fulfill, and do you know the time they give birth?

Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?

I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.

Walk around Zion! Encircle it! Count its towers!

If I tried to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. Even if I finished counting them, I would still have to contend with you.

There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them.

I, the Lord, say that shepherds will once again count their sheep as they pass into the fold. They will do this in all the towns in the southern hill country, the western foothills, the southern hill country, the territory of Benjamin, the villages surrounding Jerusalem, and the towns of Judah.'

The population of Egypt is like a vast, impenetrable forest. But I, the Lord, affirm that the enemy will cut them down. For those who chop them down will be more numerous than locusts. They will be too numerous to count.

After a priest has become ceremonially clean, they must count off a period of seven days for him.

For a nation has invaded our land. There are so many of them they are too numerous to count. Their teeth are like those of a lion; they tear apart their prey like a lioness.

Wail, you who live in the market district, for all the merchants will disappear and those who count money will be removed.