12 occurrences in 13 translations

'Number' in the Bible

For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.

Verse ConceptsInsectsMany CombatantsLocustsTentsGrasshoppersUncountable

And the Lord said to Gideon, So great is the number of your people, that if I give the Midianites into their hands they will be uplifted in pride over me and will say, I myself have been my saviour.

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsNot Mearmygideon

And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

Verse ConceptsThree Hundred And Above

And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsLocustsSandCamelsMany CreaturesSand And Gravel

Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

Verse ConceptsPolygamySeventiesgideon

And they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech got the support of a number of uncontrolled and good-for-nothing persons.

Verse ConceptsCoinageHiring

And Abimelech went after him and he went in flight before him; and a great number were falling by the sword all the way up to the town.

Verse ConceptsWounds

So Jephthah went in flight from his brothers and was living in the land of Tob, where a number of good-for-nothing men, joining Jephthah, went out with him on his undertakings.

Verse ConceptsHalf brothers

So the tribe of Dan sent from their families five valiant men of their number from Zorah and Eshtaol to scout the land and search through it. Following their orders, which were "Go and scout the land," they came to the mountainous region of Ephraim, arrived at Micah's home, and stayed there.

Verse ConceptsSpiesFive PeopleSpying

And the sons of Benjamin number themselves on that day; out of the cities are twenty and six thousand men drawing sword, apart from the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered themselves, seven hundred chosen men;

Verse ConceptsSeven To Nine HundredTwenty Thousand And Up

And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swords; they were all men of war.

Verse ConceptsSwordsThree To Nine Hundred Thousand

And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.

Verse ConceptsGroups going home

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