Mispar is Hebrew's primary noun for a counted quantity — the 'number of' something. Derived from the root s-p-r ('to count, recount'), it appears overwhelmingly in construct chains: 'the number of the sons of Israel' (Gen 34:30), 'the number of the days' (Lev 25:15), 'the number of the stars' (Ps 147:4). The phrase en mispar ('without number,' 'innumerable') is a standard idiom for uncountable abundance (Gen 41:49; Judg 6:5). Multilingual evidence is straightforward — Spanish numero, French nombre, German Zahl, Korean 수 — because counting is a universal human activity. But two peripheral senses deserve attention: the idiomatic mete mispar ('men of number,' i.e., 'few men'), where the word paradoxically conveys smallness, and a single occurrence in Judges 7:15 where mispar may mean 'telling, recounting' of a dream, preserving the verbal root's narrative sense.