סְפָר
çᵉphâr · H5610 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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census
An official count or a numbering of persons
Examples2 Chronicles 2:17 Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, following the census which his father David had taken; and 153,600 were found.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- סָפַרto count, to tell 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַחַרafter, behind 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Measure002004002009
- סְפָר describes a numbering or count, illustrated at its sole occurrence, 2 Chronicles 2:16, in Solomon's message to Hiram counting out the timber and labor needed for the temple project.
- Names of Locations003001010
- This entry's own tagged occurrence is a place-name reference associated with rafts brought by sea: “We will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you as rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem” (2 Chronicles 2:16), reflecting the maritime transport this domain describes.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5610. sephar I. סְפָר noun [masculine] enumeration, census (late; on formative compare…
I. סְפָר noun [masculine] enumeration, census (late; on formative compare LagBN 175); — absolute ׳ס, followed by אֲשֶׁר as accusative of congnate meaning with verb סָפַר2Ch 2:16.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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