Words the Bible translates as number
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- paqadפָּקַדto turn one's attention to someone and act on it: to step in, whether to help or to harm.
+3 more meanings
- to count people one by one for a purpose: to take a census, or to call up and review fighting men.
- to put someone in charge: to appoint a person over people or things and entrust the responsibility to them.
- to entrust something to someone's keeping: to hand over goods, money, or a charge for safekeeping.
- arithmosἀριθμόςa number: the total reached by counting, whether the size of a group or a specific figure that stands for something.
- sapharסָפַרto count, and so to recount: to take a tally of things, or to tell them over one by one as a story
+1 more meaning
- a scribe: a trained official who keeps records, writes documents, and manages affairs of state or temple
- misparמִסְפָּרa number: the count or total you get when you add up how many of something there are
- arithmeōἀριθμέωto numbernot studied yet
- manahמָנָהto count or number, and by extension to weigh out, allot, and appoint
- katarithmeōκαταριθμέωto numbernot studied yet
- mikhsahמִכְסָהnumbernot studied yet
- minyanמִנְיָןnumbernot studied yet
- sephorahסְפֹרָהnumbernot studied yet
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