סָפַר

Strong’s Definition

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

Etymology & Derivation

a primitive root;

KJV Usage

commune, (ac-) count; declare, number, [phrase] penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.(v) to count, recount, relate
• 2.(qal)
• 3.enumerator, muster-officer, secretary
• 4.learned man, scribe
• 5.(n m) enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe
• 6.(niphal) to be counted, be numbered
• 7.(piel) to recount, rehearse, declare
• 8.(pual) to be recounted, be rehearsed, be related

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: çâphar; Pronunciation: saw-far'