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Hebrew verb · H5608

סָפַר

sapharsaw-far'

to recount; secretary

159 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: çâphar

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5608is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 24 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 116
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5608

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

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

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

saphar is rendered "to recount; secretary". It stands 159 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-four books.

  • Thirty-seven of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to recount".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
  • The Greek text spells it 116 different ways.

The first use

And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Genesis 15:5וּסְפֹר֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: to recount, and secretary.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to recountStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereGenesis 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars…
secretaryStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the scribe37
  • and he recounted11
  • recount6
  • it will be counted5
  • recounting4
  • scribe of4
  • to recount4
  • and they recounted3
  • I will recount3
  • scribes3
  • they have recounted3
  • you will count3

and 61 more, 159 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

סָפַדsaphadto mournUses30
סָפַקsaphaqto slapUses10
סָפַחsaphachto attachUses6
סָפַןsaphanto coverUses6
סָפַףsaphaphto standUses1

The words it stands beside

All 159, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

116 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הַסֹּפֵ֔ר10
  • הַסֹּפֵ֑ר4
  • הַסּוֹפֵ֗ר3
  • הַסֹּפֵ֗ר3
  • הַסֹּפֵר֙3
  • וַיְסַפֵּ֨ר3
  • יִסָּפֵ֖ר3
  • סִפְּרוּ־3
  • אֲסַפְּרָ֗ה2
  • הַסּוֹפֵ֜ר2
  • הַסּוֹפֵ֔ר2
  • הַסֹּפֵ֜ר2

and 104 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular37HTd/Ncmsa
  • Hc/Vpw3ms11Hc/Vpw3ms
  • noun · masculine singular6HNcmsa
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVNi3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular5HVpc1cs
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural5HVpi3mp
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVpi3ms
  • noun · masculine plural4HNcmpa
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)4HR/Vpcc
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural4HVpp3cp
  • verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine plural4HVpv2mp
  • HC/Vpu3mp3HC/Vpu3mp

Genesis

thirteen uses
  • And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

    Genesis 15:5

    • וּסְפֹר֙useforconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and count
    • לִסְפֹּ֣רlisporpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to count
  • Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”

    Genesis 16:10

    • יִסָּפֵ֖רyisaferverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be counted
  • Then the servant told Isaac all that he had done.

    Genesis 24:66

    • וַיְסַפֵּ֥רvaysaperHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he recounted
  • When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.

    Genesis 29:13

    • וַיְסַפֵּ֣רvaysaperHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he recounted
  • But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”

    Genesis 32:12

    • יִסָּפֵ֖רyisaferverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be counted
  • Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

    Genesis 37:9

    • וַיְסַפֵּ֥רvaysaperHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he recounted
  • He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”

    Genesis 37:10

    • וַיְסַפֵּ֣רvaysaperHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he recounted
  • “We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

    Genesis 40:8

    • סַפְּרוּ־saperu-verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: recount
  • So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,

    Genesis 40:9

    • וַיְסַפֵּ֧רvaysaperHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he recounted
  • In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

    Genesis 41:8

    • וַיְסַפֵּ֨רvaysaperHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he recounted
  • Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.

    Genesis 41:12

    • וַנְּ֨סַפֶּר־vanesaper-Hc/Vpw1cptagged: and we recounted
  • So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.

    Genesis 41:49

    • לִסְפֹּ֖רlisporpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to measure

Exodus

four uses
  • But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

    Exodus 9:16

    • סַפֵּ֥רsaperverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to recount
  • and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”

    Exodus 10:2

    • תְּסַפֵּר֩tesaperverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you may recount
  • Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

    Exodus 18:8

    • וַיְסַפֵּ֤רvaysaperHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he recounted
  • When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”

    Exodus 24:3

    • וַיְסַפֵּ֤רvaysaperHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he recounted

Leviticus

five uses
  • When the man has been cleansed from his discharge, he must count off seven days for his cleansing, wash his clothes, and bathe himself in fresh water, and he shall be clean.

    Leviticus 15:13

    • וְסָ֨פַרvesafarHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will count
  • When a woman is cleansed of her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean.

    Leviticus 15:28

    • וְסָ֥פְרָהvesaferahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and she will count
  • From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.

    Leviticus 23:15

    • וּסְפַרְתֶּ֤םusefartemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will count
  • You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.

    Leviticus 23:16

    • תִּסְפְּר֖וּtisperuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will count
  • And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.

    Leviticus 25:8

    • וְסָפַרְתָּ֣vesafartaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will count

Numbers

one use
  • And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!

    Numbers 13:27

    • וַיְסַפְּרוּ־vaysaperu-Hc/Vpw3mptagged: and they recounted

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.

    Deuteronomy 16:9

    • תִּסְפָּר־tispor-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will count
    • לִסְפֹּ֔רlisporpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to count

Joshua

one use
  • Then the two men started back, came down from the hill country, and crossed the river. So they came to Joshua son of Nun and reported all that had happened to them.

    Joshua 2:23

    • וַיְסַ֨פְּרוּ־vaysaperu-Hc/Vpw3mptagged: and they recounted

Judges

three uses
  • Some came from Ephraim, with their roots in Amalek; Benjamin came with your people after you. The commanders came down from Machir, the bearers of the marshal’s staff from Zebulun.

    Judges 5:14

    • סֹפֵֽר׃sofernoun · masculine singulartagged: a muster-officer
  • “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

    Judges 6:13

    • סִפְּרוּ־siperu-verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they recounted
  • And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

    Judges 7:13

    • מְסַפֵּ֥רmesaperverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: recounting

1 Samuel

one use
  • Just then Saul was returning from the field, behind his oxen. “What troubles the people?” asked Saul. “Why are they weeping?” And they relayed to him the words of the men from Jabesh.

    1 Samuel 11:5

    • וַיְסַ֨פְּרוּ־vaysaperu-Hc/Vpw3mptagged: and they recounted

2 Samuel

three uses
  • Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;

    2 Samuel 8:17

    • סוֹפֵֽר׃sofernoun · masculine singulartagged: secretary
  • Sheva was the scribe; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;

    2 Samuel 20:25

    • סֹפֵ֑רsofernoun · masculine singulartagged: secretary
  • After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

    2 Samuel 24:10

    • סָפַ֣רsafarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had counted

1 Kings

five uses
  • Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.

    1 Kings 3:8

    • יִסָּפֵ֖רyisaferverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be counted
  • Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were secretaries; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;

    1 Kings 4:3

    • סֹפְרִ֑יםsoferimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: scribes
  • There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

    1 Kings 8:5

    • יִסָּפְר֛וּyisaferuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they were counted
  • Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.

    1 Kings 13:11

    • וַיְסַפֶּר־vaysaper-Hc/Vpw3mstagged: and he recounted
    • וַֽיְסַפְּר֖וּםvaysaperumHc/Vpw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they recounted them

2 Kings

thirteen uses
  • Now the king had been speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things Elisha has done.”

    2 Kings 8:4

    • סַפְּרָה־saperah-verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular + paragogic hetagged: recount
  • And Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had revived came to appeal to the king for her house and her land. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”

    2 Kings 8:5

    • מְסַפֵּ֣רmesaperverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: recounting
  • When the king asked the woman, she confirmed it. So the king appointed for her an officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, along with all the proceeds of the field from the day that she left the country until now.”

    2 Kings 8:6

    • וַתְּסַפֶּר־vatesaper-Hc/Vpw3fstagged: and she recounted
  • Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags.

    2 Kings 12:10

    • סֹפֵ֤רsofernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: scribe of
  • Then they called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebnah the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to them.

    2 Kings 18:18

    • הַסֹּפֵ֔רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

    2 Kings 18:37

    • הַסֹּפֵ֜רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz

    2 Kings 19:2

    • הַסֹּפֵ֗רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the scribe, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,

    2 Kings 22:3

    • הַסֹּפֵ֔רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan, who read it.

    2 Kings 22:8

    • הַסֹּפֵ֔רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”

    2 Kings 22:9

    • הַסֹּפֵר֙hasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.

    2 Kings 22:10

    • הַסֹּפֵר֙hasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • and commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Achbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king:

    2 Kings 22:12

    • הַסֹּפֵ֗רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.

    2 Kings 25:19

    • הַסֹּפֵר֙hasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe

1 Chronicles

seven uses
  • Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, half the Manahathites, the Zorites, and the clans of the scribes who lived at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

    1 Chronicles 2:55

    • סֹפְרִים֙soferimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: Sophrites
  • Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.

    1 Chronicles 16:24

    • סַפְּר֤וּsaperuverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: recount
  • Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Shavsha was the scribe;

    1 Chronicles 18:16

    • סוֹפֵֽר׃sofernoun · masculine singulartagged: scribe
  • So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”

    1 Chronicles 21:2

    • סִפְרוּ֙sifruverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: count
  • The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.

    1 Chronicles 23:3

    • וַיִּסָּֽפְרוּ֙vaiyisaferuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were counted
  • The scribe, Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded their names in the presence of the king and of the officers: Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the heads of families of the priests and the Levites—one family being taken from Eleazar, and then one from Ithamar.

    1 Chronicles 24:6

    • הַסּוֹפֵ֜רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • David’s uncle Jonathan was a counselor; he was a man of insight and a scribe. Jehiel son of Hachmoni attended to the sons of the king.

    1 Chronicles 27:32

    • וְסוֹפֵ֖רvesoferconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a scribe

2 Chronicles

ten uses
  • So he conscripted 70,000 porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors.

    2 Chronicles 2:2

    • וַיִּסְפֹּ֨רvaiyisporHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he counted
  • Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all.

    2 Chronicles 2:17

    • וַיִּסְפֹּ֣רvaiyisporHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he counted
    • סְפָרָ֖םsefaramverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: he had counted them
  • There, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

    2 Chronicles 5:6

    • יִסָּפְר֛וּyisaferuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they were counted
  • Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers and they saw that there was a large amount of money, the royal scribe and the officer of the high priest would come and empty the chest and carry it back to its place. They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance.

    2 Chronicles 24:11

    • סוֹפֵ֤רsofernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: scribe of
  • Uzziah had an army ready for battle that went out to war by assigned divisions, as recorded by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the direction of Hananiah, one of the royal officers.

    2 Chronicles 26:11

    • הַסּוֹפֵ֔רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • were over the laborers and supervised all who did the work, task by task. Some of the Levites were secretaries, officers, and gatekeepers.

    2 Chronicles 34:13

    • סוֹפְרִ֥יםsofrimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: scribes
  • And Hilkiah said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan.

    2 Chronicles 34:15

    • הַסּוֹפֵ֔רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.

    2 Chronicles 34:18

    • הַסּוֹפֵר֙hasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • and commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king:

    2 Chronicles 34:20

    • הַסּוֹפֵ֗רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe

Ezra

four uses
  • Cyrus king of Persia had them brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.

    Ezra 1:8

    • וַֽיִּסְפְּרֵם֙vaiyisperemHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he counted out them
  • this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted Ezra all his requests, for the hand of the LORD his God was upon him.

    Ezra 7:6

    • סֹפֵ֤רsofernoun · masculine singulartagged: a scribe
  • This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in the commandments and statutes of the LORD to Israel:

    Ezra 7:11

    • הַסֹּפֵ֑רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
    • סֹפֵ֞רsoferverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: scribe of

Nehemiah

seven uses
  • At that time all the people gathered together in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.

    Nehemiah 8:1

    • הַסֹּפֵ֔רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform built for this occasion. At his right side stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, and at his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hash-baddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

    Nehemiah 8:4

    • הַסֹּפֵ֗רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.

    Nehemiah 8:9

    • הַסֹּפֵ֡רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • On the second day of the month, the heads of all the families, along with the priests and Levites, gathered around Ezra the scribe to study the words of the Law.

    Nehemiah 8:13

    • הַסֹּפֵ֑רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • They served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe.

    Nehemiah 12:26

    • הַסּוֹפֵֽר׃ פhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • and his associates—Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani—with the musical instruments prescribed by David the man of God. Ezra the scribe led the procession.

    Nehemiah 12:36

    • הַסּוֹפֵ֖רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • I appointed as treasurers over the storerooms Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, with Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, to assist them, because they were considered trustworthy. They were responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.

    Nehemiah 13:13

    • הַסּוֹפֵ֗רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe

Esther

two uses
  • Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.

    Esther 5:11

    • וַיְסַפֵּ֨רvaysaperHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he recounted
  • Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”

    Esther 6:13

    • וַיְסַפֵּ֨רvaysaperHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he recounted

Job

eight uses
  • Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.

    Job 12:8

    • וִֽיסַפְּר֥וּvisaperuHC/Vpu3mptagged: and they may recount
  • For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.

    Job 14:16

    • תִּסְפּ֑וֹרtisporverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will count
  • Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

    Job 15:17

    • וַאֲסַפֵּֽרָה׃vaasaperahconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: and I will recount
  • then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He established it and searched it out.

    Job 28:27

    • וַֽיְסַפְּרָ֑הּvaysaperahHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he recounted it
  • Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

    Job 31:4

    • יִסְפּֽוֹר׃yisporverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: does he count
  • Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?

    Job 37:20

    • הַֽיְסֻפַּר־haysupar-question particle + verb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ will it be recounted
  • Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

    Job 38:37

    • יְסַפֵּ֣רyesaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he count
  • Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?

    Job 39:2

    • תִּסְפֹּ֣רtisporverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you count

Psalms

thirty-seven uses
  • I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.

    Psalms 2:7

    • אֲסַפְּרָ֗הʾasaperahverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will recount
  • I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will recount all Your wonders.

    Psalms 9:1

    • אֲ֝סַפְּרָ֗הʾasaperahverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will recount
  • that I may declare all Your praises— that within the gates of Daughter Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.

    Psalms 9:14

    • אֲסַפְּרָ֗הʾasaperahverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I may recount
  • The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

    Psalms 19:1

    • מְֽסַפְּרִ֥יםmesaperimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: recounting
  • I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.

    Psalms 22:17

    • אֲסַפֵּ֥רʾasaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I count
  • I will proclaim Your name to my brothers; I will praise You in the assembly.

    Psalms 22:22

    • אֲסַפְּרָ֣הʾasaperahverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will recount
  • Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.

    Psalms 22:30

    • יְסֻפַּ֖רyesuparverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be recounted
  • to raise my voice in thanksgiving and declare all Your wonderful works.

    Psalms 26:7

    • וּ֝לְסַפֵּ֗רulesaperconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to recount
  • Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

    Psalms 40:5

    • מִסַּפֵּֽר׃misaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: for recounting
  • We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

    Psalms 44:1

    • סִפְּרוּ־siperu-verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have recounted
  • My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses to the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

    Psalms 45:1

    • סוֹפֵ֬רsofernoun · masculine singulartagged: a scribe
  • March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,

    Psalms 48:12

    • סִ֝פְר֗וּsifruverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: count
  • consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.

    Psalms 48:13

    • תְּ֝סַפְּר֗וּtesaperuverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you may recount
  • To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

    Psalms 50:16

    • לְסַפֵּ֣רlesaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to recount
  • You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle— are they not in Your book?

    Psalms 56:8

    • סָפַ֪רְתָּ֫הsafartahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have taken account of
  • By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.

    Psalms 59:12

    • יְסַפֵּֽרוּ׃yesaperuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they speak
  • They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

    Psalms 64:5

    • יְֽ֭סַפְּרוּyesaperuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they speak
  • Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.

    Psalms 66:16

    • וַ֭אֲסַפְּרָהvaasaperahconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: so let me recount
  • For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.

    Psalms 69:26

    • יְסַפֵּֽרוּ׃yesaperuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they have recounted
  • My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.

    Psalms 71:15

    • יְסַפֵּ֬רyesaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will recount
  • If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.

    Psalms 73:15

    • אֲסַפְּרָ֥הʾasaperahverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will speak
  • But as for me, it is good to draw near to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may proclaim all Your works.

    Psalms 73:28

    • לְ֝סַפֵּ֗רlesaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to recount
  • We give thanks to You, O God; we give thanks, for Your Name is near. The people declare Your wondrous works.

    Psalms 75:1

    • סִ֝פְּר֗וּsiperuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people recount
  • that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

    Psalms 78:3

    • סִפְּרוּ־siperu-verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have recounted
  • We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.

    Psalms 78:4

    • מְֽ֭סַפְּרִיםmesaperimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: recounting
  • that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children

    Psalms 78:6

    • וִֽיסַפְּר֥וּvisaperuHC/Vpu3mptagged: and may they recount
  • Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.

    Psalms 79:13

    • נְ֝סַפֵּ֗רnesaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will recount
  • The LORD will record in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.” Selah

    Psalms 87:6

    • יִ֭סְפֹּרyisporverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will count
  • Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

    Psalms 88:11

    • הַיְסֻפַּ֣רhaysuparquestion particle + verb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ will it be recounted
  • Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.

    Psalms 96:3

    • סַפְּר֣וּsaperuverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: recount
  • that they may proclaim the name of the LORD in Zion and praise Him in Jerusalem,

    Psalms 102:21

    • לְסַפֵּ֣רlesaperpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to recount
  • Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.

    Psalms 107:22

    • וִֽיסַפְּר֖וּvisaperuHC/Vpu3mptagged: and let them recount
  • I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.

    Psalms 118:17

    • וַ֝אֲסַפֵּ֗רvaasaperHC/Vpu1cstagged: and I may recount
  • With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.

    Psalms 119:13

    • סִפַּ֑רְתִּיsipartiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I recount
  • I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.

    Psalms 119:26

    • סִ֭פַּרְתִּיsipartiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I recounted
  • If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.

    Psalms 139:18

    • אֶ֭סְפְּרֵםʾesperemverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I will count them
  • They will proclaim the power of Your awesome deeds, and I will declare Your greatness.

    Psalms 145:6

    • אֲסַפְּרֶֽנָּה׃ʾasapperenahverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: I will recount it

Isaiah

nine uses
  • You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.

    Isaiah 22:10

    • סְפַרְתֶּ֑םsefartemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you counted
  • Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”

    Isaiah 33:18

    • סֹפֵר֙soferverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: counted
    • סֹפֵ֥רsoferverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: counted
  • Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.

    Isaiah 36:3

    • הַסֹּפֵ֔רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

    Isaiah 36:22

    • הַסּוֹפֵ֜רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz

    Isaiah 37:2

    • הַסּוֹפֵ֗רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.

    Isaiah 43:21

    • יְסַפֵּֽרוּ׃ סyesaperuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will recount
  • Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.

    Isaiah 43:26

    • סַפֵּ֥רsaperverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: recount
  • so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.

    Isaiah 52:15

    • סֻפַּ֤רsuparverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had been recounted

Jeremiah

seventeen uses
  • How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?

    Jeremiah 8:8

    • סֹפְרִֽים׃soferimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: scribes
  • They suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.

    Jeremiah 23:27

    • יְסַפְּר֖וּyesaperuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they recount
  • Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 23:28

    • יְסַפֵּ֣רyesaperverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let him recount
  • “Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 23:32

    • וַֽיְסַפְּרוּם֙vaysaperumHc/Vpw3mp/Sp3mptagged: and they have recounted them
  • As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”

    Jeremiah 33:22

    • יִסָּפֵר֙yisaferverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be counted
  • From the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, which was in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the house of the LORD, Baruch read from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the hearing of all the people.

    Jeremiah 36:10

    • הַסֹּפֵ֜רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

    Jeremiah 36:12

    • הַסֹּפֵ֔רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
    • הַסֹּפֵ֡רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • So the officials went to the king in the courtyard. And having stored the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, they reported everything to the king.

    Jeremiah 36:20

    • הַסֹּפֵ֑רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing beside him.

    Jeremiah 36:21

    • הַסֹּפֵ֑רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.

    Jeremiah 36:23

    • הַסֹּפֵ֔רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.

    Jeremiah 36:26

    • הַסֹּפֵ֔רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

    Jeremiah 36:32

    • הַסֹּפֵר֒hasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.

    Jeremiah 37:15

    • הַסֹּפֵ֔רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”

    Jeremiah 37:20

    • הַסֹּפֵ֔רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • “The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”

    Jeremiah 51:10

    • וּנְסַפְּרָ֣הunesaperahconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: so let us recount
  • Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.

    Jeremiah 52:25

    • סֹפֵר֙sofernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: scribe of

Ezekiel

four uses
  • And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate, which faces north, each with a weapon of slaughter in his hand. With them was another man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. And they came in and stood beside the bronze altar.

    Ezekiel 9:2

    • הַסֹּפֵ֖רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • Then the glory of the God of Israel rose from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.

    Ezekiel 9:3

    • הַסֹּפֵ֖רhasoferthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the scribe
  • But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”

    Ezekiel 12:16

    • יְסַפְּר֜וּyesaperuverb · intensive (piel), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they may recount
  • and after he is cleansed, he must count off seven days for himself.

    Ezekiel 44:26

    • יִסְפְּרוּ־yisperu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: people will count

Hosea

one use
  • Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

    Hosea 1:10

    • יִסָּפֵ֑רyisaferverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be counted

Joel

one use
  • Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

    Joel 1:3

    • סַפֵּ֑רוּsaperuverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: recount

Habakkuk

one use
  • “Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.

    Habakkuk 1:5

    • יְסֻפָּֽר׃yesuparverb · intensive passive (pual), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be recounted

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How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

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