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Lexicon :: Strong's H505 - 'elep̄

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אֶלֶף
Transliteration
'elep̄
Pronunciation
eh'-lef
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Prop, the same as אֶלֶף (H504)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 109a

Strong’s Definitions

אֶלֶף ʼeleph, eh'-lef; prop, the same as H504; hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand:—thousand.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 505x

The KJV translates Strong's H505 in the following manner: thousand (500x), eleven hundred (with H3967) (3x), variant (1x), twelve hundred (with H3967) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 505x
The KJV translates Strong's H505 in the following manner: thousand (500x), eleven hundred (with H3967) (3x), variant (1x), twelve hundred (with H3967) (1x).

  1. a thousand

    1. as numeral

  2. a thousand, company

    1. as a company of men under one leader, troops

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֶלֶף ʼeleph, eh'-lef; prop, the same as H504; hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand:—thousand.
STRONGS H505: Abbreviations
II. אֶ֫לֶף noun masculineJudges 6:15 thousand (אלף MI, SI, Sabean DHMZMG 1875, 615; Arabic أَلفً, Aramaic PElAx  , אֲלַף, אלפיא) — א׳ (אָ֑׳) Genesis 20:16 +; suffix אַלְמִּי Judges 6:15; dual אַלְמַּיִם Numbers 4:36 +; plural אֲלָפִים Exodus 18:21 +; construct אַלְפֵי Exodus 32:28 +; אֲלָפֶיךָ Deuteronomy 7:13 + 2 times; אֲלָפָיו Qr 1 Samuel 18:7 + 2 times (Kt ־פו) — a thousand.
1. numeral:
a. used with noun alone; mostly before noun Numbers 35:4; Joshua 7:3; Nehemiah 3:13; 1 Chronicles 18:4 +; after noun (late) 1 Chronicles 12:35 + 6 times Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah; בָּאַמָּה א׳ Numbers 35:5 (4 times in verse); Ezekiel 47:3 (strike out Co); the noun always plural when preceding, sometimes when following, 1 Samuel 25:2; 1 Kings 3:4; 2 Kings 18:23 = Isaiah 36:8; 2 Chronicles 30:24; Psalm 90:4; Job 42:12; Ecclesiastes 6:6; elsewhere singular אישׁ Judges 9:49; Judges 15:15, 16; Joshua 7:3 +; אַמָּה Numbers 35:4 + (so SI); דּוֺר Deuteronomy 7:9 +, compare 1 Chronicles 18:4; 1 Chronicles 19:6; 2 Kings 15:19; Job 42:12; Songs 4:4; Isaiah 7:23, noun sometimes collective; א׳ plural construct Micah 6:7; Psalm 119:72; Genesis 24:60; noun not expressed (or not fully) Genesis 20:16; Numbers 31:5, 6 +; distributive אֶלֶף⬩⬩⬩אֶלֶף Numbers 31:4; multiplicative Deuteronomy 1:11 פְּעָמִים א׳; indefinite for great number (plural) Exodus 20:6; Exodus 34:7; Deuteronomy 5:10; Jeremiah 32:18, (singular) Deuteronomy 32:30; Ecclesiastes 6:6 +.
b. א׳ + other number usually precedes it Exodus 38:25 + often; but following רִבּוֺא Ezra 2:64 + 2 times; it follows also smaller number Numbers 3:50; 1 Kings 5:12 (so SI); the noun following in singular Exodus 28:25 + 8 times; plural 2 Samuel 8:4 + 2 times; noun precedes, in plural (late) Daniel 12:12 + 2 times; noun not expressed Exodus 38:28 —
c. א׳ X other number always following Exodus 12:37 +; usual order is no. X א׳ + additional no. (if any) + noun (if expressed) Numbers 31:52; Judges 20:35 compare Exodus 12:37; 2 Kings 3:4 (twice in verse) +; less often noun + no. X א׳ Numbers 31:33; 1 Kings 8:63 +; (other combinations see Exodus 38:26; Numbers 26:51; Numbers 31:32; Ezekiel 48:30; 1 Chronicles 29:7 etc.); א׳ usually singular Numbers 11:21 +; except after units, where plural absolute Numbers 1:46; Judges 20:34 + (so MI); seldom plural construct Exodus 32:28; Judges 4:10; Job 1:3 (twice in verse); (noun mostly singular when following Judges 4:10; 1 Kings 12:21+, yet plural Joshua 4:13; 1 Samuel 13:5 +; when preceding it is plural 1 Chronicles 5:21 +, or collective Numbers 31:33; 1 Samuel 25:2; 1 Kings 8:63; 2 Chronicles 7:5 +); אֶלֶף אֲלָפִים 1 Chronicles 21:5; 1 Chronicles 22:14; 2 Chronicles 14:8; אַלְפֵי שִׁנְאָן Psalm 68:18, compare שִׁנְאָן; בְּהַרֲרֵי אָ֑לֶף Psalm 50:10, read אֵל compare Psalm 36:7, Ol Bi Che; yet see Hup De. —
Note.10,000= עֲשֶׂרֶת אֲלָפִים etc. Judges 1:4; Judges 3:29; 1 Kings 5:28; 1 Chronicles 29:7 +; less often רִבּוֺ, רְבָבָה etc. which see.
2. a thousand, a company of 1000 men, as united under one superior, or leader, hence (שָׂרֵי) שַׂר א׳ Exodus 18:21, 25 compare Numbers 31:14 +; compare יִשְׂרָאֵל רָאשֵׁי א׳ Numbers 1:16; Numbers 10:4; Joshua 22:21, 30 & see below; compare also 1 Samuel 29:2; especially family, etc. Judges 6:15; 1 Samuel 10:19 (|| שֵׁבֶט & compare מִשְׁפַּחַת 1 Samuel 10:21); compare Micah 5:2; — Numbers 10:36 (רִבְבוֺת אַלְפֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל) Numbers 31:5; Joshua 22:14; 1 Samuel 23:23 apparently shew transition to this technical use.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H506.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

20:16; 20:16; 24:60

Exodus

12:37; 12:37; 18:21; 18:21; 18:25; 20:6; 28:25; 32:28; 32:28; 34:7; 38:25; 38:26; 38:28

Numbers

1:16; 1:46; 3:50; 4:36; 10:4; 10:36; 11:21; 26:51; 31:4; 31:5; 31:5; 31:6; 31:14; 31:32; 31:33; 31:33; 31:52; 35:4; 35:4; 35:5

Deuteronomy

1:11; 5:10; 7:9; 7:13; 32:30

Joshua

4:13; 7:3; 7:3; 22:14; 22:21; 22:30

Judges

1:4; 3:29; 4:10; 4:10; 6:15; 6:15; 6:15; 9:49; 15:15; 15:16; 20:34; 20:35

1 Samuel

10:19; 10:21; 13:5; 18:7; 23:23; 25:2; 25:2; 29:2

2 Samuel

8:4

1 Kings

3:4; 5:12; 8:63; 8:63; 12:21

2 Kings

3:4; 15:19; 18:23

1 Chronicles

5:21; 12:35; 18:4; 18:4; 19:6; 21:5; 22:14; 29:7; 29:7

2 Chronicles

7:5; 14:8; 30:24

Ezra

2:64

Nehemiah

3:13

Job

1:3; 42:12; 42:12

Psalms

36:7; 50:10; 68:18; 90:4; 119:72

Ecclesiastes

6:6; 6:6

Song of Songs

4:4

Isaiah

7:23; 36:8

Jeremiah

32:18

Ezekiel

47:3; 48:30

Daniel

12:12

Micah

5:2; 6:7

H505

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Strong's Number H505 matches the Hebrew אֶלֶף ('elep̄),
which occurs 507 times in 390 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 8 (Num 4:40–Deu 33:17)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:40 - those listed by their clans and their fathers’ houses were 2,630.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:44 - those listed by clans were 3,200.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:48

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:48 - those listed were 8,580.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:85

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:85 - each silver plate weighing 130 shekels and each basin 70, all the silver of the vessels 2,400 shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:4 - But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:36 - And when it rested, he said, “Return, O LORD, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:21 - But Moses said, “The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:49 - Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:9 - Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7 - These are the clans of the Reubenites, and those listed were 43,730.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:14 - These are the clans of the Simeonites, 22,200.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18 - These are the clans of the sons of Gad as they were listed, 40,500.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:22 - These are the clans of Judah as they were listed, 76,500.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:25 - These are the clans of Issachar as they were listed, 64,300.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:27 - These are the clans of the Zebulunites as they were listed, 60,500.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:34 - These are the clans of Manasseh, and those listed were 52,700.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:37 - These are the clans of the sons of Ephraim as they were listed, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their clans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41 - These are the sons of Benjamin according to their clans, and those listed were 45,600.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:43 - All the clans of the Shuhamites, as they were listed, were 64,400.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:47 - These are the clans of the sons of Asher as they were listed, 53,400.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:50 - These are the clans of Naphtali according to their clans, and those listed were 45,400.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:51 - This was the list of the people of Israel, 601,730.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:62

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - And those listed were 23,000, every male from a month old and upward. For they were not listed among the people of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:4 - You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:5 - So there were provided, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:6 - And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:14 - And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:32 - Now the plunder remaining of the spoil that the army took was 675,000 sheep,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:33 - 72,000 cattle,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:34 - 61,000 donkeys,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:35 - and 32,000 persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:36 - And the half, the portion of those who had gone out in the army, numbered 337,500 sheep,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:38 - The cattle were 36,000, of which the LORD’s tribute was 72.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:39 - The donkeys were 30,500, of which the LORD’s tribute was 61.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:40 - The persons were 16,000, of which the LORD’s tribute was 32 persons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:43 - now the congregation’s half was 337,500 sheep,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:44 - 36,000 cattle,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:45 - and 30,500 donkeys,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:46 - and 16,000 persons—

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:48

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:48 - Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, came near to Moses

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:52 - And all the gold of the contribution that they presented to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:54 - And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, as a memorial for the people of Israel before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 - The pasturelands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits[fn] all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - And you shall measure, outside the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall belong to them as pastureland for their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:11 - May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:15 - So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:10 - but showing steadfast love to thousands[fn] of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9 - Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - How could one have chased a thousand,
and two have put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
and the LORD had given them up?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 33:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:17 - A firstborn bull[fn]—he has majesty,
and his horns are the horns of a wild ox;
with them he shall gore the peoples,
all of them, to the ends of the earth;
they are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

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