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סָפַר

çâphar · saw-far'Hebrew · H5608

Derivation

a primitive root;

Meaning

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

In the King James Version

commune, (ac-) count; declare, number, [phrase] penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.

Translated as

scribe (41), told (24), declare (17), tell (11), number (10), numbered (10), scribes (6), forth (5), declared (4), count (4), counted (2), scribe's (2), writer's (2), numbering (1), telling (1), out (1), numberest (1), accounted (1), tellest (1), commune (1)

Where it appears

Found in 143 verses

Exodus
9:16, 10:2, 18:8, 24:3
Leviticus
15:13, 15:28, 23:15, 23:16, 25:8
Numbers
13:27
Deuteronomy
16:9
Joshua
2:23
Judges
6:13, 7:13
1 Samuel
11:5
2 Samuel
8:17, 20:25, 24:10
1 Kings
3:8, 4:3, 8:5, 13:11
1 Chronicles
2:55, 16:24, 18:16, 21:2, 23:3, 24:6, 27:32
2 Chronicles
2:2, 2:17, 5:6, 24:11, 26:11, 34:13, 34:15, 34:18, 34:20
Ezra
1:8, 7:6, 7:11
Nehemiah
8:1, 8:4, 8:9, 8:13, 12:36, 13:13
Esther
3:12, 5:11, 6:13, 8:9
Ezekiel
9:2, 9:3, 12:16, 44:26
Hosea
1:10
Joel
1:3

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