ἀριθμός
arithmós · G706 · Greek · 18 occurrences
Meanings
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number
Any cardinal number
ExamplesLuke 22:3 And Satan entered Judas, the one called Iscariot, who belonged to the number of the twelve.
Acts 5:36 “For, some time ago Theudas appeared, claiming to be somebody, and a group of about four hundred men joined him. But he was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.
Revelation 7:4 And I heard the number of those who were sealed: 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:
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number, total sum
The sum or total of a numbered quantity
ExamplesJohn 6:10 Jesus said, “Have the people recline to eat.” Now there was plenty of grass in the place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number.
Acts 4:4 But many of those who had heard the message believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
Acts 6:7 The word of God kept spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
15 occurrences in 11 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 4
- Other words · 10 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πολύςmany 1
Named alongside itApposition
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- πιστεύωto believe 1
- χάραγμαmark 1
- χιλιάςthousand 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐπιστρέφωto turn, to return 1
- πληθύνωto grow 1
- προσκλίνωto lean toward 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἀκούωto hear 2
- ψηφίζωto count 1
What it is said to bePredicate
6 occurrences in 5 groups
- ἄμμοςsand 2
- χιλιάςthousand 2
- ἑξακόσιοιsix hundred 1
- μυριάςmyriads, ten thousand 1
- δισμυριάςtwo-myriad 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκfrom 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- מִסְפָּר miçpâr · H4557 · report, account, list
- מִסְפָּר (miçpâr, H4557) is the standard Hebrew term for counting and numerical reckoning, serving as the direct etymological and semantic equivalent of ἀριθμός (arithmós, G706) in LXX translation practice, both denoting enumerated quantities and calculated totals.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Number60.1
- In John 6:10, before the feeding of the five thousand, “the men reclined, about five thousand in number (arithmón),” giving a specific numeric total of people present.
- Number, total sum60.2
- In Luke 22:3, before the betrayal, “Satan entered Judas, the one called Iscariot, who belonged to the number (arithmoũ) of the twelve,” describing membership within a defined, bounded group rather than a bare count.
Word family 26 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀριθμοῦ, ὁ (from Homer down), a number; a. a fixed and definite τόν ἀριθμόν…
a. a fixed and definite τόν ἀριθμόν πεντακισχίλιοι, in number, Jn 6:10 (2 Macc. 8:16; 3Macc. 5:2, and often in Greek writings; Winers Grammar, 230 (216); (Buttmann, 153 (134))); ἐκ τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ τῶν δώδεκα, Lk 22:3; ἀριθμός... ἀνθρώπου, a number whose letters indicate a certain man, Rev 13:18.
b. an indefinite number, equivalent to a multitude: Acts 6:7; Acts 11:21; Rev 20:8.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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