ἀριθμός, ἀριθμοῦ, ὁ (from Homer down), a number; a. a fixed and definite number: τόν ἀριθμόν πεντακισχίλιοι, in number, Joh_6:10 (2Ma_8:16; 3Ma_5:2, and often in Greek writings; Winers Grammar, 230 (216); (Buttmann, 153 (134))); ἐκ τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ τῶν δώδεκα, Luk_22:3; ἀριθμός ... ἀνθρώπου, a number whose letters indicate a certain man, Rev_13:18. b. an indefinite number, equivalent to a multitude: Act_6:7; Act_11:21; Rev_20:8.

ἀριθμός arithmos 18x a number, Luk_22:3 ; Joh_6:10 ; Act_4:4 ; Rev_20:8 ; Rev_13:18 number.

ἀριθμός , -οῦ , ὁ , [in LXX chiefly for H4557 ;] number, a number: Luk_22:3 , Joh_6:10 , Act_4:4 ; Act_5:36 ; Act_6:7 ; Act_11:21 ; Act_16:5 , Rom_9:27 , Rev_5:11 ; Rev_7:4 ; Rev_9:16 ; Rev_13:17-18 ; Rev_15:2 ; Rev_20:8 (for exx . of mystical use in Papyri, v. MM , s.v. ).†

ἀριθμός [page 76] P Petr II. 16 .13 (middle iii/B.C.) (= Witkowski .2 , p. 12) ἠκούσ ]αμεν ἀριθμὸν ἔσεσθαι ἐκ τῶν Ἀρσινοε [ίω ]ν , P Gen I. 16 .22 (A.D. 207) τοὶ τούτου ἀδελφοὶ ὄντες τὸν ἀριθμὸν πέντε . For the LXX ἀριθμῷ = few in Num_9:20 , Eze_12:16 (Thackeray, O.T. Gram. p. 39), cf. P Oxy IV. 742 .7f. .(B.C. 2) (= Witkowski .2 , p. 128) παράδος δέ τινι τῶν φίλων ἀριθμῷ αὐτάς ( sc. δεσμάς ), deliver a few of them, rather than deliver them accurately counted (as Wilcken ap. Witkowski). But note the combination in P Oxy X. 1270 .36 (A.D. 159) ἀριθμῷ πλήρ [εις : so ib. 1273 .21 (A.D. 260) with ἀριθμοῦ , and 1261 .10 (A.D. 325). Another use appears in BGU IV. 1085 .25 (A.D. 171) where P. M. Meyer restores περὶ τῶν . . . ἀρι ]θμῷ τριά [κοντα ἔντυχε τῷ στρατηγῷ ] : ἀριθμῷ is a kind of rubric heading no. 30, or the like. OGIS 266 .6 (iii/B.C.). ὑπὲρ τῶν τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἀποδόντων τὸν κύριον , as regards those who had completed the fixed number of years. It may be worth while to call attention to Wessely s paper on Gnostic numbers in the Mittheilungen of the Rainer Collection I. i. p. 113 ff. : thus 99 is the ἀριθμός of ἀμήν (α + μ + η + ν = 99) and the mystic Ἀβρασάξ is the number of the year, since its letters numerically total 365 (see P Leid W iv. 30 ). For the application of this principle to the number of the Beast ( Rev_13:18 ), with illustrations from Greek graffiti from Pompeii (so before A.D. 79), see Deissmann LAE p. 276 f. : one of them is φιλῶ ἧς ἀριθμὸς φ̄μ̄ε̄ , I love her whose number is 545. The case for a Greek rather than a Hebrew gematria in a Greek book is undeniably strong. Deissmann, l.c. refers to the dictionaries under ἰσόψηφος . We may cite from Cagnat IV. 743 .7f. (= C. and B. no. 232 a metrical epitaph by a Jew of the time of Alexander Severus) a good instance of the gematria in Greek ἰσόψηφος δυσὶ τούτοις Γάιος ὡς ἅγιος ὡς ἀγαθὸς προλέγω : both adjectives total 284, agreeing with the number of his own name.

ἀριθμός [Etym: *ἄρω] "number", Lat. numerus, Od. , etc.; ἀριθμόν "in" number, Hdt. , attic; ἀριθμὸν ἕξ Hdt. ; ἐς τὸν ἀρ. τρισχίλια id=Hdt. ; also, ἓν ἀριθμῶι id=Hdt. ; so in attic "amount, sum, extent", πολὺς ἀρ. χρόνου Aeschin. ; ἀρ. ἀργυρίου a "sum" of money, Xen. as mark of station, worth, rank, μετ᾽ ἀνδρῶν ἀριθμῶι "among" men, Od. ; οὐκ ἔχουσιν ἀριθμόν have no "account" made of them, Eur. ; οὐδ᾽ εἰς ἀριθμὸν ἥκεις λόγων you come not "into my account", id=Eur. "mere number, quantity", opp. to "quality, worth", ἀριθμὸς λόγων "a mere set" of words, Soph. ; so of men, οὐκ ἀρ. ἄλλως not "a mere lot", Eur. ; so ἀριθμός alone, like Hor. 's "nos numerus sumus", Ar. "a numbering, counting", ἀριθμὸν ποιεῖσθαι τῆς στρατιῆς to hold "a muster" of the army, Hdt. ; παρεῖναι εἰς τὸν ἀρ. Xen. "the science of numbers, numeration, arithmetic", Aesch. , Plat.

ἀριθμός, -οῦ, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for מִסְפָּר ;] number, a number: Luk.22:3, Jhn.6:10, Act.4:4 5:36 6:7 11:21 16:5, Rom.9:27, Rev.5:11 7:4 9:16 13:17-18 15:2 20:8 (for exx. of mystical use in π., see MM, see word).† (AS)