סָפַר
sa.phar
v
1. to count, recount, relate
a. (Qal)
1. to count (things)
2. to number, take account of, reckon
b. (Niphal) to be counted, be numbered
c. (Piel) to recount, rehearse, declare
1. to recount (something), rehearse
2. to talk
3. to count exactly or accurately
d. (Pual) to be recounted, be rehearsed, be related
1. enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe
a. enumerator, muster-officer, secretary
b. learned man, scribe
Aramaic equivalent: sa.pher (סָפִר "scribe" H5613)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 152 verses
- Psalms 64:5 יְֽ֭סַפְּרוּ
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.
- Psalms 66:16 וַ֭אֲסַפְּרָה
Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for me.
- Psalms 69:26 יְסַפֵּֽרוּ׃
For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
- Psalms 71:15 יְסַפֵּ֬ר
My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.
- Psalms 73:15 אֲסַפְּרָ֥ה
If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
- Psalms 73:28 לְ֝סַפֵּ֗ר
But as for me, it is good to draw near to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may proclaim all Your works.
- Psalms 75:1 סִ֝פְּר֗וּ
We give thanks to You, O God; we give thanks, for Your Name is near. The people declare Your wondrous works.
- Psalms 78:3 סִפְּרוּ־
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
- Psalms 78:4 מְֽ֭סַפְּרִים
We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
- Psalms 78:6 וִֽיסַפְּר֥וּ
that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children
- Psalms 79:13 נְ֝סַפֵּ֗ר
Then we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture, will thank You forever; from generation to generation we will declare Your praise.
- Psalms 87:6 יִ֭סְפֹּר
The LORD will record in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.” Selah
- Psalms 88:11 הַיְסֻפַּ֣ר
Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon ?
- Psalms 96:3 סַפְּר֣וּ
Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.
- Psalms 102:21 לְסַפֵּ֣ר
that they may proclaim the name of the LORD in Zion and praise Him in Jerusalem,
- Psalms 107:22 וִֽיסַפְּר֖וּ
Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare His works with rejoicing.
- Psalms 118:17 וַ֝אֲסַפֵּ֗ר
I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done.
- Psalms 119:13 סִפַּ֑רְתִּי
With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.
- Psalms 119:26 סִ֭פַּרְתִּי
I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.
- Psalms 139:18 אֶ֭סְפְּרֵם
If I were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand; and when I awake, I am still with You.
- Psalms 145:6 אֲסַפְּרֶֽנָּה׃
They will proclaim the power of Your awesome deeds, and I will declare Your greatness.
- Isaiah 22:10 סְפַרְתֶּ֑ם
You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.
- Isaiah 33:18 סֹפֵר֙סֹפֵ֥ר
Your mind will ponder the former terror: “Where is he who tallies? Where is he who weighs? Where is he who counts the towers?”
- Isaiah 36:3 הַסֹּפֵ֔ר
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.
- Isaiah 36:22 הַסּוֹפֵ֜ר
Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
- Isaiah 37:2 הַסּוֹפֵ֗ר
And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz
- Isaiah 43:21 יְסַפֵּֽרוּ׃ס
The people I formed for Myself will declare My praise.
- Isaiah 43:26 סַפֵּ֥ר
Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.
- Isaiah 52:15 סֻפַּ֤ר
so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.
- Jeremiah 8:8 סֹפְרִֽים׃
How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
- Jeremiah 23:27 יְסַפְּר֖וּ
They suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.
- Jeremiah 23:28 יְסַפֵּ֣ר
Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 23:32 וַֽיְסַפְּרוּם֙
“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 33:22 יִסָּפֵר֙
As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
- Jeremiah 36:10 הַסֹּפֵ֜ר
From the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, which was in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the house of the LORD, Baruch read from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the hearing of all the people.
- Jeremiah 36:12 הַסֹּפֵ֔רהַסֹּפֵ֡ר
he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.
- Jeremiah 36:20 הַסֹּפֵ֑ר
So the officials went to the king in the courtyard. And having stored the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, they reported everything to the king.
- Jeremiah 36:21 הַסֹּפֵ֑ר
Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing beside him.
- Jeremiah 36:23 הַסֹּפֵ֔ר
And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
- Jeremiah 36:26 הַסֹּפֵ֔ר
Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.
- Jeremiah 36:32 הַסֹּפֵר֒
Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
- Jeremiah 37:15 הַסֹּפֵ֔ר
The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
- Jeremiah 37:20 הַסֹּפֵ֔ר
But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”
- Jeremiah 51:10 וּנְסַפְּרָ֣ה
“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
- Jeremiah 52:25 סֹפֵר֙
Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
- Ezekiel 9:2 הַסֹּפֵ֖ר
And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate, which faces north, each with a weapon of slaughter in his hand. With them was another man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. And they came in and stood beside the bronze altar.
- Ezekiel 9:3 הַסֹּפֵ֖ר
Then the glory of the God of Israel rose from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.
- Ezekiel 12:16 יְסַפְּר֜וּ
But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 44:26 יִסְפְּרוּ־
and after he is cleansed, he must count off seven days for himself.
- Hosea 1:10 יִסָּפֵ֑ר
Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’