Count
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to have, to hold;" then, "to hold in the mind, to regard, to count," has this significance in Matthew 14:5 , "they counted Him as a prophet;" Philemon 1:17 , "If then thou countest me a partner;" Mark 11:32 , AV, (RV, "hold"); Acts 20:24 , AV. See Able.
primarily, "to lead the way;" hence, "to lead before the mind, account," is found with this meaning in Philippians 2:3 , RV (AV, "esteem"); Philippians 2:6 , RV (AV, "thought"); Philippians 2:25 (AV, "supposed"); Philippians 3:7,8; 2—Thessalonians 3:15; 1—Timothy 1:12; 6:1; Hebrews 10:29; James 1:2; Hebrews 11:11 (AV, "judged"); 2—Peter 2:13; 3:9 . See Account.
"to reckon," is rendered "count" in 2—Corinthians 10:2 , RV (AV, "think"); "counted" in the AV of Romans 2:26; 4:3,5; 9:8 (RV, "reckoned").
akin to psephos, "a stone," used in voting, occurs in Luke 14:28; Revelation 13:18 .
"to count up," occurs in Acts 19:19 .
James 5:11AccountGenealogy.
King James Dictionary [2]
1. To number to tell or name one by one, or by small numbers, for ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection as, to count the years, days and hours of a mans life to count the stars.
Who can count the dust of Jacob? Numbers 23 .
2. To reckon to preserve a reckoning to compute.
Some tribes of rude nations count their years by the coming of certain birds among them at certain seasons, and leaving them at others.
3. To reckon to place to an account to ascribe or impute to consider or esteem as belonging.
Abraham believed in God, and he counted it to him for righteousness. Genesis 15 .
4. To esteem to account to reckon to think, judge, or consider.
I count them my enemies. Psalms 139 .
Neither count I my life dear to myself. Acts 20 .
I count all things loss. Philippians 3 .
5. To impute to charge.
COUNT, To count on or upon, to reckon upon to found an account or scheme on to rely on. We cannot count on the friendship of nations. Count not on the sincerity of sycophants.
COUNT, n.
1. Reckoning the act of numbering as, this is the number according to my count. 2. Number. 3. In law, a particular charge in an indictment, or narration in pleading, setting forth the cause of complaint. There may be different counts in the same declaration.
COUNT, n. L., a companion or associate, a fellow traveler. A title of foreign nobility, equivalent to the English earl, and whose domain is a county. An earl the alderman of a shire, as the Saxons called him. The titles of English nobility, according to their rank, are Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and Baron.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): (v. t.) To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
(2): (v. t.) To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
(3): (v. i.) To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.
(4): (v. i.) To reckon; to rely; to depend; - with on or upon.
(5): (v. t.) To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.
(6): (v. i.) To take account or note; - with
(7): (v. i.) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
(8): (v. t.) The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.
(9): (v. t.) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
(10): (v. t.) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution.
(11): (n.) A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
kount ( ספר , ṣāphar , מנה , mānāh ; ψηφίζω , psēphı́zō ): Used of arithmetical computation "to number" ( Psalm 139:18; Numbers 23:10 ); also for כּתב , kāthabh , "to reckon," to indicate classification among or identification with, "count for a stranger" ( Job 19:15 ); "count for his enemy" ( Job 33:10 ). In the New Testament the arithmetical computation is less prominent, except in the sense of "calculate," psēphizō , sumpsēphı́zō , "to reckon with pebbles," each pebble representing a unit ( Luke 14:28; Acts 19:19 ); of moral estimate, hēgéomai and logı́zomai ( Philippians 3:7 , Philippians 3:13 ). The noun, from Hebrew kāṣath , "a count of" ( Exodus 12:4 ), namely, in the arithmetical sense.
