Original Language Studio
Exodus 18:8
“And Moses told his father in law all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the Lord delivered them.” (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
- יְסַפֵּ֤ר — 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.