Numbers

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English

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

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.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) Num.

   • 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)
• 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: 民みん數すう記き／民みん数すう记 (man⁴ sou³ gei³), 戶籍こせき紀き／户籍纪 (wu⁶ zik⁶ gei²) (Catholic)

  Eastern Min: 民みん數すう記き／民みん数すう记 (Mìng-só-gé)

  Hakka: 民みん數すう記き／民みん数すう记 (Mìn-su-ki)

  Hokkien: 民みん數すう紀き錄ろく／民みん数すう纪录 (Bîn-sò͘ Kí-lio̍k), 民みん數すう記き／民みん数すう记 (Bîn-sò͘-kì), 戶籍こせき紀き／户籍纪 (Hō͘-che̍k-kí) (Catholic)

  Mandarin: 民みん數すう記き／民みん数すう记 (zh) (Mínshùjì), 戶籍こせき紀き／户籍纪 (zh) (Hùjíjì) (Catholic)

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

  Ancient: Ἀρろーῐθμοί m pl (Arithmoí)

• Greenlandic: 4 Mosesi (kl)
• Hawaiian: Nā Helu
• Hebrew: בַּמִּדְבָּר (he) (BaMidbár)
• 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: 民みん数すう記き (Minsū ki)
• Jarai: Tơlơi Yap
• Kazakh: Руларды санау (Rulardy sanau)
• 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
• Macedonian: Броеви pl (Broevi)
• Malayalam: സംഖ്യ (ml) (saṅkhya)
• Maltese: Ktieb in-Numri (mt)
• Manx: Earrooyn (gv)
• Maori: Tauanga (mi)
• Ngazidja Comorian: Hisaɓu class 10
• Norwegian: Fjerde Mosebok (no)
• Persian: اعداد (fa)
• Polish: Księga Liczb f
• Portuguese: Números (pt) m
• Punjabi: گِنْتی (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)
• Turkish: Çölde Sayim
• Turkmen: Çölde
• Urdu: گنتی (gintī), کِتابِ گِنْتی (kitāb-e gintī)
• Waray-Waray: Mga Numero
• Welsh: Numeri (cy) m pl
• West Frisian: Numeri
• Western Panjabi: کتاب گنتی (Kitāb-e Gintī)
• Yoruba: Nọ́ḿbà, Númérì
• Zealandic: Numeri

Anagrams

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