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number

Meaning of “number”

Sense 1: A count or quantity. Sense 2: To count, reckon, appoint, or include among a group.

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First occurrence: Genesis 13:16

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Genesis 13:16
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Genesis 13:16 · retained source text

And I will make thy seede as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbred.

Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
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1611 witness · Genesis 15:5 · retained source text

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Looke now towards heauen, and tell the starres, if thou be able to number them. And hee said vnto him, So shall thy seed be.

1611 marginal noteRom. 4.18.

Genesis 34:30
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
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1611 witness · Genesis 34:30 · retained source text

And Iacob said to Simeon and Leui, Ye haue troubled me to make me to stinke among the inhabitants of the land, amongst the Canaanites, and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselues together against me, and slay me, and I shal be destroyed, I and my house.

Genesis 41:49
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
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1611 witness · Genesis 41:49 · retained source text

And Ioseph gathered corne as the sand of the sea, very much, vntill he left numbring: for it was without number.

Exodus 12:4
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
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1611 witness · Exodus 12:4 · retained source text

And if the houshold be too little for the lambe, let him and his neighbour next vnto his house, take it according to the number of the soules: euery man according to his eating shall make your count for the lambe.

Exodus 16:16
¶ This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.
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1611 witness · Exodus 16:16 · retained source text

¶ This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded: gather of it euery man according to his eating: an Omer for euery man, according to the number of your persons, take yee euery man for them which are in his tents.

1611 marginal noteHeb. by the polle or head.

1611 marginal noteHeb. soules.

Exodus 23:26
¶ There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Exodus 23:26 · retained source text

¶ There shall nothing cast their yong, nor bee barren in thy land: the number of thy dayes I will fulfill.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 7.14.

Exodus 30:12
When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Exodus 30:12 · retained source text

When thou takest the summe of the children of Israel, after their number, then shall they giue euery man a ransome for his soule vnto the LORD, when thou numbrest them, that there be no plague amongst them, when thou numbrest them.

1611 marginal noteHeb. them that are to be numbred.

1611 marginal noteNum. 1.2,5.

Leviticus 15:13
And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.
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1611 witness · Leviticus 15:13 · retained source text

And when hee that hath an issue, is cleansed of his issue, then hee shall number to himselfe seuen dayes for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be cleane.

Leviticus 15:28
But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
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1611 witness · Leviticus 15:28 · retained source text

But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to her selfe seuen dayes: and after that, she shalbe cleane.

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