Word Meanings - NUMBERS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to NUMBERS)

• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• CENSUS
  A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years. 2. An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• FOURTHLY
  In the fourth place.
• FOURTH
  1. Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four. 2. Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.
• NUMBER
  The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• NUMBERLESS
  Innumerable; countless.
• PENTATEUCH
  The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• PENTATEUCHAL
  Of or pertaining to the Pentateuch.
• NUMBERS
  of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
• NUMBERER
  One who numbers.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• NUMBEROUS
  Numerous. Drant.
• OUTNUMBER
  To exceed in number.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• ANTENUMBER
  A number that precedes another. Bacon.
• MISNUMBER
  To number wrongly.
• SIXTY-FOURTH
  Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided. Sixty-fourth note , the sixty-fourth part of a whole note; a hemi-demi-semiquaver.
• UNNUMBERED
  Not numbered; not counted or estimated; innumerable. Dryden.