# מִסְפָּר (mispar)

Israeli respelling: mis-par. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4557. 129 Old Testament occurrences.

a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration

King James renderings: [phrase] abundance, account, [idiom] all, [idiom] few, (in-) finite, (certain) number(-ed), tale, telling, [phrase] time.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/mispar-h4557

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 34:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/34/30) — And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the…
- [Genesis 41:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/41/49) — And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
- [Exodus 16:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/16) — This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the nu…
- [Exodus 23:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/26) — There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
- [Leviticus 25:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/15) — According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he…
- [Leviticus 25:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/16) — According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the pr…
- [Leviticus 25:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/50) — And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall…
- [Numbers 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/2) — Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of…
- [Numbers 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/18) — And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their famili…
- [Numbers 1:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/20) — And the children of Reuben, Israel’s eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to th…
- [Numbers 1:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/22) — Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, acc…
- [Numbers 1:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/24) — Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, fr…
- [Numbers 1:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/26) — Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names,…
- [Numbers 1:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/28) — Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the name…
- [Numbers 1:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/30) — Of the children of Zebulun, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names…
- [Numbers 1:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/32) — Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, a…
- [Numbers 1:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/34) — Of the children of Manasseh, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the name…
- [Numbers 1:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/36) — Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the name…
- [Numbers 1:38](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/38) — Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, fr…
- [Numbers 1:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/40) — Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names,…
- [Numbers 1:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/1/42) — Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of…
- [Numbers 3:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/22) — Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of t…
- [Numbers 3:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/28) — In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
- [Numbers 3:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/34) — And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hund…
- [Numbers 3:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/40) — And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the num…
- [Numbers 3:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/3/43) — And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two t…
- [Numbers 9:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/20) — And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and a…
- [Numbers 14:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/29) — Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and u…
- [Numbers 14:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/34) — After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty…
- [Numbers 15:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/12) — According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.
- [Numbers 23:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/23/10) — Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be…
- [Numbers 26:53](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/26/53) — Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.
- [Numbers 29:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/29/18) — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, af…
- [Numbers 29:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/29/21) — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, af…
- [Numbers 29:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/29/24) — Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after…
- [Numbers 29:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/29/27) — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, af…
- [Numbers 29:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/29/30) — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, af…
- [Numbers 29:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/29/33) — And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, af…
- [Numbers 29:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/29/37) — Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after th…
- [Numbers 31:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/31/36) — And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and fi…
- [Deuteronomy 4:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/27) — And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
- [Deuteronomy 25:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/25/2) — And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, ac…
- [Deuteronomy 32:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/8) — When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according…
- [Deuteronomy 33:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/33/6) — Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
- [Joshua 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/4/5) — And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone…
- [Joshua 4:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/4/8) — And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua,…
- [Judges 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/6/5) — For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were withou…
- [Judges 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/7/6) — 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 up…
- [Judges 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/7/12) — And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their c…
- [Judges 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/7/15) — And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host o…
- [Judges 21:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/23) — 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 a…
- [1 Samuel 6:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/6/4) — Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him? They answered, Five golden emerods, and five golden mice,…
- [1 Samuel 6:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/6/18) — And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and o…
- [1 Samuel 27:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/27/7) — And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
- [2 Samuel 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/2/11) — And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
- [2 Samuel 2:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/2/15) — Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin, which pertained to Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of D…
- [2 Samuel 21:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/21/20) — And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four…
- [2 Samuel 24:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/2) — For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba,…
- [2 Samuel 24:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/24/9) — And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew t…
- [1 Kings 18:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/31) — And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Isr…
- [1 Chronicles 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/7/2) — And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of Tola:…
- [1 Chronicles 7:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/7/40) — All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father’s house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number…
- [1 Chronicles 9:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/9/28) — And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale.
- [1 Chronicles 11:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/11/11) — And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear agains…
- [1 Chronicles 12:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/23) — And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, a…
- [1 Chronicles 16:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/16/19) — When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
- [1 Chronicles 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/2) — And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, t…
- [1 Chronicles 21:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/5) — And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men t…
- [1 Chronicles 22:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/22/4) — Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.
- [1 Chronicles 22:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/22/16) — Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
- [1 Chronicles 23:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/23/3) — Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight th…
- [1 Chronicles 23:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/23/24) — These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by the…
- [1 Chronicles 23:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/23/27) — For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
- [1 Chronicles 23:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/23/31) — And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order…
- [1 Chronicles 25:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/25/1) — Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophe…
- [1 Chronicles 25:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/25/7) — So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fours…
- [1 Chronicles 27:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/27/1) — Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that se…
- [1 Chronicles 27:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/27/23) — But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars…
- [1 Chronicles 27:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/27/24) — Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in…
- [2 Chronicles 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/12/3) — With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lub…
- [2 Chronicles 26:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/11) — Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel t…
- [2 Chronicles 26:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/26/12) — The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
- [2 Chronicles 29:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/29/32) — And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred la…
- [2 Chronicles 35:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/35/7) — And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of th…
- [Ezra 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/1/9) — And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
- [Ezra 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/2/2) — Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of…
- [Ezra 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/3/4) — They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the…
- [Ezra 8:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/34) — By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.
- [Nehemiah 7:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/7) — Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I…
- [Esther 9:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/11) — On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
- [Job 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/1/5) — And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and of…
- [Job 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/6) — As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the month…
- [Job 5:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/9) — Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
- [Job 9:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/9/10) — Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
- [Job 14:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/14/5) — Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
- [Job 15:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/20) — The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
- [Job 16:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/16/22) — When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
- [Job 21:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/21) — For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
- [Job 21:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/33) — The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
- [Job 25:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/25/3) — Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
- [Job 31:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/37) — I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
- [Job 36:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/26) — Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
- [Job 38:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/21) — Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
- [Psalms 40:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/12) — For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more tha…
- [Psalms 104:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/104/25) — So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
- [Psalms 105:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/12) — When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
- [Psalms 105:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/105/34) — He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
- [Psalms 147:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/147/4) — He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
- [Psalms 147:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/147/5) — Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/3) — I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what wa…
- [Ecclesiastes 5:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/5/18) — Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh un…
- [Ecclesiastes 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/6/12) — For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what…
- [Song of Solomon 6:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/6/8) — There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
- [Isaiah 10:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/19) — And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
- [Isaiah 21:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/21/17) — 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 spo…
- [Isaiah 40:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/26) — Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names b…
- [Jeremiah 2:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/28) — But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the num…
- [Jeremiah 2:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/32) — Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
- [Jeremiah 11:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/11/13) — For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up al…
- [Jeremiah 44:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/28) — Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that a…
- [Jeremiah 46:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/46/23) — They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumera…
- [Ezekiel 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/4/4) — Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt…
- [Ezekiel 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/4/5) — For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou be…
- [Ezekiel 4:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/4/9) — Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bre…
- [Ezekiel 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/5/3) — Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
- [Ezekiel 12:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/12/16) — But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations a…
- [Daniel 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/2) — In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prop…
- [Hosea 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/1/10) — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass,…
- [Joel 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/6) — For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a gre…