Strong's #5608: caphar (pronounced saw-far')
a primitive root; 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:--commune, (ac-)count; declare, number, + penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
sâphar
1) to count, recount, relate (verb)
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to count (things)
1a2) to number, take account of, reckon
1b) (Niphal) to be counted, be numbered
1c) (Piel) to recount, rehearse, declare
1c1) to recount (something), rehearse
1c2) to talk
1c3) to count exactly or accurately
1d) (Pual) to be recounted, be rehearsed, be related
2) enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe (noun masculine)
2a) enumerator, muster-officer, secretary
2b) learned man, scribe
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1540, 1540c
Usage:
This word is used 161 times:
2 Kings 25:19: "presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered"
1 Chronicles 2:55: "And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These"
1 Chronicles 16:24: " Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvelous works among all nations."
1 Chronicles 18:16: "of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;"
1 Chronicles 21:2: "the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba"
1 Chronicles 23:3: "Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number"
1 Chronicles 24:6: "And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before"
1 Chronicles 27:32: "was a counselor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with"
2 Chronicles 2:2: "And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand"
2 Chronicles 2:17: "And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel,"
2 Chronicles 2:17: "the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty"
2 Chronicles 5:6: "and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude."
2 Chronicles 24:11: "there was much money, the king's scribe and the high priest's officer came"
2 Chronicles 26:11: "according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under"
2 Chronicles 34:13: "in any manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters."
2 Chronicles 34:15: "and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house"
2 Chronicles 34:18: "Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given"
2 Chronicles 34:20: "the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,"
Ezra 1:8: "the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah."
Ezra 7:6: "from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which"
Ezra 7:11: "gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD,"
Ezra 7:11: "unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes"
Nehemiah 8:1: "gate; and they spoke unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law"
Nehemiah 8:4: "And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made"
Nehemiah 8:9: "is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people,"
Nehemiah 8:13: "and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law."
Nehemiah 12:26: "the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe."
Nehemiah 12:36: "the man of God, and Ezra the scribe before"
Nehemiah 13:13: "Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to"
Esther 3:12: "Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month,"
Esther 5:11: "And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all"
Esther 6:13: "And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every"
Esther 8:9: "Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that"
Job 12:8: "and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare"
Job 14:16: "For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?"
Job 15:17: "thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;"
Job 28:27: "Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out."
Job 31:4: "he see my ways, and count all my steps?"
Job 37:20: " Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up."
Job 38:37: "Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,"
Job 39:2: " Canst thou number the months that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?"
Psalms 2:7: " I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son;"
Psalms 9:1: "thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvelous works."
Psalms 9:14: "That I may show forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice"
Psalms 19:1: "A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth"
Psalms 22:17: " I may tell all my bones: they look and stare"
Psalms 22:22: " I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise"
Psalms 22:30: "A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation."
Psalms 26:7: "That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works."
Psalms 40:5: "if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered."
