11 occurrences

'Number' in the Bible

For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.

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

Now the number of those who took up the water with their tongues was three hundred; all the rest of the people went down on their knees to the water.

Verse ConceptsThree Hundred And Above

Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.

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 children of Dan sent five men from among their number, strong men, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to take a look at the land and make a search through it; and they said to them, Go and make a search through the land; and they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, where they made a stop for the night.

Verse ConceptsSpiesFive PeopleSpying

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

So the men of Benjamin did this, and got wives for themselves for every one of their number, taking them away by force from the dance; then they went back to their heritage, building up their towns and living in them.

Verse ConceptsGroups going home

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