number, "a number" (Eng., "arithmetic," etc.), occurs in Luk 22:3, Joh 6:10, Rom 9:27; elsewhere five times in Acts, ten times in the Apocalypse.
"a multitude," is translated "number" in Luk 6:17, RV (AV, "multitude"); in Mar 10:46, Act 1:15 the renderings are reversed. See COMMON, COMPANY, CROWD MULTITUDE, PEOPLE. akin to A, is found in Mat 10:30, Luk 12:7, Rev 7:9. "to number" or "count among" (kata, and No. 1), is used in Act 1:17. "to reckon among" (en, "in," krino, "to judge or reckon"), is translated "to number ... (ourselves) with" in 2Co 10:12 (RV marg., "to judge ourselves among or ... with"), of the Apostle's dissociation of himself and his fellow missionaries from those who commended themselves. "to vote or reckon (one) a place among" (sun, "with" or "among," kata, "down," and psephizo, "to count or vote," originally with pebbles, psephos, "a pebble"), is used of the "numbering" of Matthias with the eleven Apostles, Act 1:26. Notes: (1) Some mss. have verse 28 in Mark 15 (AV), where logizomai, "to reckon," is translated "He was numbered." (2) For katalego 1Ti 5:9 (AV, "let ... be taken into the number"), see TAKE, Note (18). (3) In Mar 5:13 see the italicized words in RV. (4) In Heb 7:23, RV, the adjective pleion, "more, many," is translated "many in number" (AV, "many"); in Act 28:23, RV, "a great number" (AV, "many").
