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:
Psalms 44:1: "with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times"
Psalms 45:1: "my tongue is the pen of a ready writer."
Psalms 48:12: "Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers"
Psalms 48:13: "her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following."
Psalms 50:16: "God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in"
Psalms 56:8: " Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?"
Psalms 59:12: "in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak."
Psalms 64:5: "They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who"
Psalms 66:16: "all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul."
Psalms 69:26: "him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded."
Psalms 71:15: "My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know"
Psalms 73:15: "If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children."
Psalms 73:28: "my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works."
Psalms 75:1: "for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare."
Psalms 78:3: "we have heard and known, and our fathers have told"
Psalms 78:4: "We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises"
Psalms 78:6: "them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:"
Psalms 79:13: "of thy pasture will give thee thanks forever: we will show forth thy praise to all generations."
Psalms 87:6: "The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah."
Psalms 88:11: "Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?"
Psalms 96:3: " Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people."
Psalms 102:21: " To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;"
Psalms 107:22: "And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing."
Psalms 118:17: "die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD."
Psalms 119:13: "With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth."
Psalms 119:26: " I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes."
Psalms 139:18: " If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee."
Psalms 145:6: "And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness."
Isaiah 22:10: " And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall."
Isaiah 33:18: "shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted"
Isaiah 33:18: "where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?"
Isaiah 36:3: "was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder."
Isaiah 36:22: "was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder,"
Isaiah 37:2: "was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth,"
Isaiah 43:21: "This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise."
Isaiah 43:26: "Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified."
Isaiah 52:15: "him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard"
Jeremiah 8:8: "in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain."
Jeremiah 23:27: "my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers"
Jeremiah 23:28: "The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that"
Jeremiah 23:32: "dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies,"
Jeremiah 33:22: "the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured:"
Jeremiah 36:10: "of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new"
Jeremiah 36:12: "the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes"
Jeremiah 36:12: "sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan"
Jeremiah 36:20: "the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words"
Jeremiah 36:21: "the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read"
Jeremiah 36:23: "or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire"
Jeremiah 36:26: "to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid"
Jeremiah 36:32: "and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein"
