סָפַר
sōpēr
count
Strong's H5608NounHebrewTWOT 1540c

סָפַר (sōpēr) is a Hebrew noun meaning count. It appears 161 times in 24 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5608).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1540c)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1540c)enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe; score, inscribe, enumerate, recount, celebrate; commune, number, penknife, reckon, shew forth, speak, talk, tell, writer
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

סֹפֵר noun, masculine: enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe

Strong's H5608 סָפַר: properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e. celebrate
KJV:commune, (ac-) count; declare, number, penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1540: סָפַר sāpar — count, recount, relate; number, take account of, reckon; rehearse, declare; related, rehearsed; score, inscribe, enumerate, celebrate; commune, penknife, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell, writer

See it in Scripture

Genesis 15:5Exodus 9:16Leviticus 15:13

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