Numbers

See also: numbers

English

Book of Numbers on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Numbers on Wikisource.Wikisource Wiktionary has an Appendix listing books of the Bible

Etymology

Calque of Ancient Greek Ἀρῐθμοί (Arĭthmoí), from ᾰ̓ρῐθμοί (ărĭthmoí, “numbers”), from the inclusion of two major censuses in the book.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnʌmbɚz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Numbers

2. The Book of Numbers, the fourth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fourth book in the Torah.

   Synonyms: (abbreviation) Num., (Judaism) Bamidbar

   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     For in the book of Numbers is it writ,
     When the man dies, let the inheritance
     Descend unto the daughter.

Translations

fourth book of the Bible

• Afrikaans: Numeri (af)
• Albanian: Numrat
• Amharic: ኦሪት ዘኊልቊ (ʾorit zäḫʷilḳʷi)
• Arabic: سِفْر العَدَد (sifr al-ʕadad)
• Aramaic: ܣܦܪܐ ܕܡܢܝܢܐ m
• Armenian: Թվեր (Tʻver)
• Asturian: Númberos (ast)
• Basque: Zenbakiak (eu) pl
• Bengali: গণনাপুস্তক (Gaṇanāpustaka)
• Breton: Niveroù (br) m
• Bulgarian: Чи́сла n pl (Čísla)
• Burmese: တောလည်ရာကျမ်း (tau:lanyra-kyam:)
• Catalan: els Nombres m pl
• Cebuano: Mga Numero
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 民數記 / 民数记 (man⁴ sou³ gei³), 戶籍紀 / 户籍纪 (wu⁶ zik⁶ gei²) (Catholic)

  Eastern Min: 民數記 / 民数记 (Mìng-só-gé)

  Hakka: 民數記 / 民数记 (Mìn-su-ki)

  Hokkien: 民數紀錄 / 民数纪录 (Bîn-sò͘ Kí-lio̍k), 民數記 / 民数记 (Bîn-sò͘-kì), 戶籍紀 / 户籍纪 (Hō͘-che̍k-kí) (Catholic)

  Mandarin: 民數記 / 民数记 (zh) (Mínshùjì), 戶籍紀 / 户籍纪 (zh) (Hùjíjì) (Catholic)

• Comorian:

  Ngazidja Comorian: Hisaɓu class 10

• Corsican: Numeri (co)
• Czech: Numeri (cs)
• Danish: Fjerde Mosebog (da)
• Dutch: Numeri (nl)
• Esperanto: Nombroj
• Estonian: 4. Moosese raamat (et)
• Faroese: Fjórði Mósebók (fo) m
• Finnish: 4. Mooseksen kirja
• French: Nombres (fr) pl
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Numeri

• Georgian: რიცხვნი (ricxvni)
• German: Numeri (de) m pl
• Greek: Αριθμοί (el) m pl (Arithmoí)

  Ancient Greek: Ἀρῐθμοί m pl (Arĭthmoí)

• Greenlandic: 4 Mosesi (kl)
• Gujarati: ગણના f (gaṇnā)
• Hawaiian: Nā Helu
• Hebrew: בַּמִּדְבָּר (he) (BaMidbár)
• Hindi: गिनती (hi) f (gintī)
• Hungarian: Mózes negyedik könyve (hu)
• Icelandic: Fjórði Mósebók m
• Ido: Nombri (io)
• Indonesian: Kitab Bilangan, Bilangan (id)
• Irish: Leabhar na nUimhreacha m, Uimhreacha (ga) f pl
• Italian: Numeri (it)
• Japanese: 民数記 (Minsū ki)
• Jarai: Tơlơi Yap
• Kazakh: Руларды санау (Ruwlardı sanaw)
• Khmer: លេវីវិន័យ (leiviivinɨy)
• Korean: 민수기 (minsugi)
• Latin: Numerī (la) m pl
• Latvian: Ceturtā Mozus grāmata (lv) f, Skaitļu grāmata f
• Limburgish: Numeri
• Lithuanian: Skaičių knyga (lt) f
• Lutuv: Mingluv rina
• Macedonian: Броеви pl (Broevi)
• Malay: Bilangan
• Malayalam: സംഖ്യ (ml) (saṅkhya)
• Maltese: Ktieb in-Numri (mt)
• Manx: Earrooyn (gv)
• Māori: Tauanga (mi)
• Norwegian: Fjerde Mosebok (no)
• Persian: اعداد (fa)
• Polish: Księga Liczb f
• Portuguese: Números (pt) m
• Punjabi: گِنْتی (gintī)

  Western Punjabi: کتاب گنتی (Kitāb-e Gintī)

• Romanian: Numeri (ro) m pl
• Russian: Кни́га Чи́сел f (Kníga Čísel), Чи́сла n pl (Čísla)
• Scots: Nummers
• Scottish Gaelic: Àireamh (gd) m pl
• Slovak: Numeri m pl
• Slovene: Numeri (sl)
• Spanish: Los Números m pl
• Swahili: Hesabu (sw)
• Swedish: Fjärde Moseboken
• Tagalog: Mga Bilang (tl)
• Tamil: எண்ணிக்கை (ta) (eṇṇikkai)
• Thai: กันดารวิถี (gan-daa-rá-wí-tǐi)
• Tumbuka: Kupenda
• Turkish: Çölde Sayim
• Turkmen: Çölde
• Urdu: گنتی (gintī), کِتابِ گِنْتی (kitāb-e gintī)
• Vietnamese: Dân Số, Dân số kí
• Waray-Waray: Mga Numero
• Welsh: Numeri (cy) m pl
• Yoruba: Nọ́ḿbà, Númérì
• Zealandic: Numeri

Anagrams

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