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  #5608 סָפַר caphar {saw-far'}

 a primitive root; TWOT - 1540,1540c

—Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)


 v
 1) to count, recount, relate
    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
 n m
 2) enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe
    2a) enumerator, muster-officer, secretary
    2b) learned man, scribe

—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)

A primitive root; properly to score with a mark as a tally or record, that is, (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively to recount, that is, celebrate:—commune, (ac-) count, declare, number, + penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.

—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)

#5608.
סָפַר
saphar (707d); denom. vb. from 5612; to count, recount, relate:—
NASB - assigned(1), count(17), counted(6), counts(2), declare(6), declared(2), elapse(1), measuring(1), number(3), numbered(5), proclaim(1), recount(1), recounted(3), relate(3), related(9), relating(2), speak(1), state(1), surely(1), taken(1), taken account(1), talk(1), tell(23), telling(1), told(15), utter(1).

—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries

 AV - scribe 50, tell 40, declare 24, number 23, count 6, shew forth 5,
      writer 4, speak 2, accounted 1, commune 1, told out 1, reckon 1,
      penknife + H8593 1, shewing 1, talk 1; 161

accounted
Psalms 22:30.

commune
Psalms 64:5.

count
Leviticus 23:15. Job 31:4. Psalms 87:6; 139:18.

counted
1 Kings 3:8. Isaiah 33:18.

declare
1 Chronicles 16:24. Job 12:8; 15:17; 28:27. Psalms 2:7; 19:1; 22:22; 50:16; 66:16; 73:28; 75:1; 78:6; 96:3; 102:21; 107:22; 118:17; 145:6. Isaiah 43:26. Jeremiah 51:10. Ezekiel 12:16.

declared
Exodus 9:16. Psalms 88:11; 119:13, 26.

forth
Psalms 9:1, 14; 71:15; 79:13. Isaiah 43:21.

me
Genesis 40:8.

number
Genesis 15:5. Leviticus 15:13, 28; 23:16; 25:8. Deuteronomy 16:9, 9. 1 Chronicles 21:2. Job 38:37; 39:2.

numbered
Genesis 16:10; 32:12. 2 Samuel 24:10. 1 Chronicles 23:3. 2 Chronicles 2:17, 17. Ezra 1:8. Psalms 40:5. Isaiah 22:10. Jeremiah 33:22. Hosea 1:10.

numberest
Job 14:16.

numbering
Genesis 41:49.

out
2 Chronicles 2:2.

reckon
Ezekiel 44:26.

scribe
2 Samuel 8:17; 20:25. 2 Kings 12:10; 18:18, 37; 19:2; 22:3, 8, 9, 10, 12; 25:19. 1 Chronicles 18:16; 24:6; 27:32. 2 Chronicles 24:11; 26:11; 34:15, 18, 20. Ezra 7:6, 11, 11. Nehemiah 8:1, 4, 9, 13; 12:26, 36; 13:13. Isaiah 33:18; 36:3, 22; 37:2. Jeremiah 36:10, 12, 20, 26, 32; 37:15, 20; 52:25.

scribes
1 Kings 4:3. 1 Chronicles 2:55. 2 Chronicles 34:13. Esther 3:12; 8:9. Jeremiah 8:8.

scribe's
Jeremiah 36:12, 21.

shewing
Psalms 78:4.

speak
Psalms 59:12; 73:15.

talk
Psalms 69:26.

tell
Genesis 15:5. Exodus 10:2. 2 Kings 8:4. Psalms 22:17; 26:7; 48:12, 13. Jeremiah 23:27, 28, 32. Joel 1:3.

tellest
Psalms 56:8.

telling
2 Kings 8:5.

told
Genesis 24:66; 29:13; 37:9, 10; 40:9; 41:8, 12. Exodus 18:8; 24:3. Numbers 13:27. Joshua 2:23. Judges 6:13; 7:13. 1 Samuel 11:5. 1 Kings 8:5; 13:11, 11. 2 Kings 8:6. 2 Chronicles 5:6. Esther 5:11; 6:13. Job 37:20. Psalms 44:1; 78:3. Isaiah 52:15. Habakkuk 1:5.

writer
Judges 5:14. Psalms 45:1.