# H5608 סָפַר

סָפַר (çâphar), Strong’s 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 KJV: commune…

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*çâphar* — 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…

Occurs 161 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 15:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=5) — The LORD brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.”…
- [Genesis 16:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=10) — The LORD’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”
- [Genesis 24:66](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=66) — The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
- [Genesis 29:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=13) — When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and…
- [Genesis 32:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=13) — You said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because…
- [Genesis 37:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=9) — He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and…
- [Genesis 37:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=10) — He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you…
- [Genesis 40:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=8) — They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Don’t…
- [Genesis 40:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=9) — The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
- [Genesis 41:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=8) — In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told…