14 occurrences in 13 translations

'Number' in the Bible

What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

Verse ConceptsMultitudesGoatsBullsBlood Of SacrificesDelighting, Wrong Kinds OfGod, Will OfPleasureNot Pleasing GodMore Than EnoughSacrificesMeat offeringsRewards Of RitualSacrificetired

As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria;

Verse ConceptsGod Is Truthful

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

Verse ConceptsFew Things

For even if your people of Israel number as many as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Overwhelming, righteous destruction is decreed,

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfRemnantGod Doing RightDoing RightEnd Of ActionsMany In IsraelSand And Gravel

I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.

Verse ConceptsGoldYouthThings Like GoldShortage Other Than FoodMan's Sinful Nature

And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it.

Verse ConceptsSurvivors Of IsraelFew People

And the houses of Jerusalem ye did number, And ye break down the houses to fence the wall.

Verse ConceptsNumberingCounting BuildingsDestruction Of HousesBuilding Jerusalem's Wall

For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.

Verse ConceptsFew PeopleGod CursingGuiltThe Earth

Is his punishment like the punishment of those who overcame him? or are his dead as great in number as those he put to the sword?

Verse ConceptsGod Beating PeopleGod KillingGod Killed His People

But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.

Verse ConceptsBabylonAstrologyDivination, Practiced ByStarsOccultismfate

But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholRejection Of GodTablesTrust, Lack OfFood For Other godsfate

Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstChoicesListeningRejection Of GodGod's Call, Few RespondReprobatesAnswering GodNot Pleasing GodOthers Not Answeringfate

Bible Theasaurus

Calculate (7 instances)
Cipher (1 instance)
Compute (2 instances)
Counter (2 instances)
Divide (77 instances)
Enumerate (2 instances)
Figure (30 instances)
Formula (3 instances)
Function (10 instances)
Issue (89 instances)
Number (733 instances)
Routine (1 instance)

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