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Webster 1913 Edition

Numbers

Num′bers

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Number
. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.

Webster 1828 Edition

Numbers

NUM'BERS

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Noun.
The title of the fourth book of the Pentateuch.

Definition 2024

Numbers

Numbers

See also: numbers

English

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Proper noun

Numbers

  1. The Book of Numbers, the fourth of the Books of Moses in the Old Testament of the Bible, the fourth book in the Torah.
    • 1599 — Shakespeare, Hen V i 2
      For in the book of Numbers is it writ, when the man dies, let the inheritance descend unto the daughter.

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numbers

numbers

See also: Numbers

English

Pronunciation

Noun

numbers

  1. plural of number

Noun

numbers pl ‎(plural only)

  1. Many individuals as a group.

Quotations

  • 2001 — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 50
    Unlike fairies who could produce only a single child every twenty years, Mud People bred like rodents. Numbers would subdue even magic.

Verb

numbers

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of number

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