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# מִסְפָּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4558

**Mizpar. Compare** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Mizpar. Compare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4558/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִסְפָּר³: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4558/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a returned exile Ezr 2:2 (𝔊 Μαλσαρ, A 𝔊L Μασφσαρ), = מִסְפֶּ֫רֶת Ne 7:7 (𝔊 Μασφεραν, א Μασφαραδ, A Μαασφαραθ, 𝔊L Μασφαρ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Mispar (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.2/#tree)

אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֣אוּ עִם־זְרֻבָּבֶ֗ל יֵשׁ֡וּעַ נְ֠חֶמְיָה שְׂרָיָ֨ה רְֽעֵלָיָ֜ה מָרְדֳּכַ֥י בִּלְשָׁ֛ן מִסְפָּ֥ר בִּגְוַ֖י רְח֣וּם בַּעֲנָ֑ה מִסְפַּ֕ר אַנְשֵׁ֖י עַ֥ם יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* who they.came with Zerubbabel Jeshua Nehemiah Seraiah Reelaiah Mordecai Bilshan Mispar Bigvai Rehum Baanah the.number of.the.men of.the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4558.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4558/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).