Original Language Studio
1 Chronicles 23:3
“Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
סָפַרçâphar · saw-far'
H5608 · Hebrew
H5608 · Hebrew
- Definition
- 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
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- commune, (ac-) count; declare, number, [phrase] penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּסָּֽפְרוּ֙ — verb Niphal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 161 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 15:5Genesis 15:5Genesis 16:10Genesis 24:66Genesis 29:13
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read סָפַר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.