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Esther 5:11
“And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
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
- יְסַפֵּ֨ר — verb Piel, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- 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.