{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5608",
  "lemma": "סָפַר",
  "transliteration": "çâphar",
  "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",
  "kjv": "commune, (ac-) count; declare, number, [phrase] penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth…",
  "occurrences": 161,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "סָפַר 107 vb. count, Pi. recount, relate",
    "Qal 27",
    "1. count things, to learn their number",
    "2. number = take account of, carefully observe and consider, reckon",
    "Niph. be counted, numbered",
    "Pi. 67 recount, rehearse, declare",
    "Pu. be recounted, related, rehearsed",
    "סֹפֵר n.m",
    "סֹפֵר, סוֹפֵר n.m. enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 15:5",
      "text": "The LORD brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.”…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 16:10",
      "text": "The LORD’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 24:66",
      "text": "The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=66"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 29:13",
      "text": "When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 32:13",
      "text": "You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:9",
      "text": "He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:10",
      "text": "He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 40:8",
      "text": "They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Don’t…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 40:9",
      "text": "The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 41:8",
      "text": "In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=8"
    }
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