Strong G706ἀριθμός

number

Transliteration
arithmos
Pronunciation
ar-ith-mos'
Morphology
Greek Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From G142; a number (as reckoned up): - number.

Detailed definition

ἀριθμός, -οῦ, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for מִסְפָּר;]
number, a number: Luk.22:3, Jhn.6:10, Act.4:4 5:36 6:7 11:21 16:5, Rom.9:27, Rev.5:11 7:4 9:16 13:17-18 15:2 20:8 (for exx. of mystical use in π., see MM, see word).†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G706 appears in 15 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • number15

First verses

  1. Luke 22:3
    Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
  2. John 6:10
    And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
  3. Acts 4:4
    Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
  4. Acts 5:36
    For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.
  5. Acts 6:7
    And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
  6. Acts 11:21
    And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
  7. Acts 16:5
    And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.
  8. Romans 9:27
    Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
  9. Revelation 5:11
    And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
  10. Revelation 7:4
    And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
  11. Revelation 9:16
    And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
  12. Revelation 13:17
    And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
  13. Revelation 13:18
    Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
  14. Revelation 15:2
    And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
  15. Revelation 20:8
    And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
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ἀριθμός [ᾰ],
(ἁρ-[Refs (“IG” 1.164))], ὁ, number, first in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”, λέκτο δ᾽ ἀριθμόν 4.451; ἀριθμῷ παῦρα 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 3; ἓν ἀριθμῷ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.6; ἀριθμὸν ἕξ [prev. author] 1.14, compare 50; ἐς τὸν ἀ. τρισχίλια [prev. author] 7.97)]; πλῆθος ἐς ἀ. the amount in point of number,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 60; τὸν ἀ. δώδεκα 3rd c.BC: Euphro Comicus 11.11; δύο τινὲς ἢ τρεῖς.. εἰς τὸν ἀ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 165; ἔλαττον μήτε ὄγκῳ μήτε ἀριθμῷ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 155a; οὔτ᾽ ἀριθμοῖς οὔτε μεγέθεσιν ἐλάττους [prev. author] “Lg.” 861e; σταθμῷ καὶ ἀ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 4.45; δι᾽ ἀ. καὶ μέτρου 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pericles” 16, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 620: proverbial, λέγειν ποντιᾶν ψάφων ἀριθμόν)] 'count the pebbles on the shore', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.46, compare 2.98)]; οὐ γιγνώσκων ψήφων ἀριθμούς, of a blockhead, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Ephippus Comicus 19; οὔτ᾽ ἀριθμὸν οὔτ᾽ ἔλεγχον.. ἔχων 4th c.BC: Dionysius Comicus 3.13.)]
2 amount, sum, πολὺς ἀ. χρόνου[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.78; ἀ. τῆς ὁδοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.2.6)]; ἀ. [χρυσίου] a sum of money, [Refs ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 8.2.16.)]
3 ἀριθμῷ, absolutely, in certain numbers, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.58; but δένδρα ἀριθμῷ ὑμέτερα)]by tale, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.72; ἀ. διδόναι 4th c.BC: Dionysius Comicus 3.6.)]
4 item or term in a series, ὁ δεύτερος ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1014; τρίτον ὠδίνων ἀ. “epigram Gr.” 574; ναῦς πολλοὺς ἀ. ἄγνυται ναυαγίων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 410, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1461b24)]; τοὺς ἀ. τοῦ σώματος points of the body, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 668d; τοὺς ἀ. ἑκάστου τῶν νοσημάτων 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 3; τὸ καλὸν ἐκ πολλῶν ἀ. ἐπιτελεῖσθαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.45c)]: hence as a mark of completeness, πάντας τοὺς ἀ. περιλαβών[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.16)]; τοῦ καθήκοντος τοὺς ἀριθμούς the sum total of duty, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 3.1.)]
5 number, account, as a mark of station, worth, rank, μετ᾽ ἀνδρῶν ἵζει ἀριθμῷ takes his place among men, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.449; εἰς ἀνδρῶν μὲν οὐ τελοῦσιν ἀ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 492; εἰς ἀ. τῶν κακῶν πεφύκαμεν [prev. author] “Hec.” 1186)]; ξενίας ἀριθμῷ πρῶτ᾽ ἔχειν ἐμῶν φίλων in regard of friendship, [Refs ([prev. work] 794)]; δειλοὶ γὰρ ἄνδρες οὐκ ἔχουσιν ἐν μάχῃ ἀριθμόν have no account made of them, [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 519)]; οὐδ᾽ εἰς ἀ. ἥκει λόγων she comes not into my account, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ ([prev. author] “El.” 1054; ἀ. οὐδεὶς οὐδὲ λόγος ἐστί τινος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.682f, compare 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 27.6, Oracle texts cited in Scholia 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.48.)]
6 mere number, quantity, opposed to quality, ταῦτ᾽ οὐκ ἀ. ἐστιν, ὦ πάτερ, λόγων a mere set of words, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 382)]; of men, οὐκ ἀ. ἄλλως not a mere lot, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 476; ἀριθμός, πρόβατ᾽ ἄλλως 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1203)]; sometimes even of a single man, οὐκ ἀριθμὸν ἀλλ᾽ ἐτητύμως ἄνδρ᾽ ὄντα not a mere unit, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 997)]; also ἀριθμὸν πληροῦν to be a mere cipher, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (6th c.AD: Choricius Rhetor “Milt.” 66.)]
II numbering, counting, μάσσων ἀριθμοῦ past counting, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 2.23)]; especially in phrases, ἀ. ποιεῖσθαι τῶν νεῶν to hold a muster of.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.7; ποιεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.1.7, etc.; παρεῖναι εἰς τὸν ἀ. [prev. work]II; εἴ τι δυνατὸν ἐς ἀ. ἐλθεῖν)] can be stated in numbers, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.72.)]
III the science of numbers, arithmetic, ἀριθμόν, ἔξοχον σοφισμάτων[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 459; ἀριθμῶν καὶ μέτρων εὑρήματα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 432; ἀ. καὶ λογισμὸν εὑρεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 274c, compare “R.” 522c: proverbial, εἴπερ γὰρ ἀριθμὸν οἶδα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 360.19.)]
IV in Philos., abstract number, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Categoriae” 4b23, “Metaphorical” 990a19, +others; ἀ. μαθηματικός [prev. work] 1090b35)]; ἀ. οὐσιώδης, opposed to τοῦ ποσοῦ, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 5.5.4)]; ἀ. ἑνιαῖος, οὐσιώδης, ἑτεροῖος, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 228.)]
V Grammars, number, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (Stoic. 3.214, 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 634.16, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Syntaxi;” 32.2, +others)]; compare ἑνικός, δυικός, πληθυντικός.
VI numeral, [Refs ([prev. work] 36.6)], etc.; ὁ τέσσαρα ἀ.[Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 7.96)]; παιδὸς ἀ., ={δεκάτη}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1132.)]
VII unknown quantity (x), defined as πλῆθος μονάδων ἀορίστων, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Diophantus Mathematicus “Def.” 2.)]
VIII Rhet., rhythm in Prose, in plural, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 23, “Dem.” 52, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1408b29; but also ἀριθμοὶ τῶν ἀρχαίων ποιητᾶν “SIG” 703.7 (Delph.).)]
IX line of a book, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Apollonius Biographus Cit. 2.)]
X sum of numerical values of letters in a name, [NT (NT.Rev.13.17, +others)]; φιλῶ ἧς ἀριθμὸς φμέ Pompeian Inscription in [Refs (“Rend.Linc.” 10(1901).257.)]
XI unit of troops, = Latin numerus, [Refs 6th c.AD+ (“CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 5187 (6th c.AD), “BGU” 673 (6th c.AD), etc.)]; = legio, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator)]ad Ath.280d, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Zosimus Epigrammaticus 5.26, “PLond.” 5.1711.69 (6th c.AD).)]
XII Astrology texts, mostly in plural, degrees traversed in a given time, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 112, 2nd c.AD: Dorotheus Astrologus in “Catalogus Codicum Astrologorum” 6.107.30)]; τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀ. at her normal speed, of the moon, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.531)]; also of degrees of latitude, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Hephaestio Astrologus 2.8, 3.1.)]
XIII in Medicine texts, in plural, precise conditions, παρόντων τῶν πρὸς τὴν φλεβοτομίαν ἀριθμῶν Herod.middle in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“Rh.Mus.” 58.71, compare 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 2.3, probably in 1st c.AD: Herodotus Medicus cited in 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 9.2; compare above 1.4. [ῐ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 1132, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1203.] (ἀρῐ-θμός from root ἀρι-, compare ἐπάριτος (which see), νήριτος.))]