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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 3 / 8 (Jos 3:4–1Sa 15:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:4 - “However, there shall be between you and it a distance of about [fn]2,000 H505 cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:13 - about 40,000 H505 equipped for war crossed for battle before Yahweh to the desert plains of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:3 - Then they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up; only about two or three thousand H505 men need go up to strike down Ai; do not have all the people toil up there, for they are few.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:4 - So about three thousand H505 men from the people went up there, but they fled [fn]from the men of Ai.

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So Joshua rose with all the people of war to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose 30,000 H505 men, valiant warriors, and sent them out at night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - And he took about 5,000 H505 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the [fn]city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:25 - So all who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000 H505—all the [fn]people of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:14 - and with him ten leaders, one leader for each father’s household from each of the tribes of Israel; and each one of them was the head of his father’s household among the [fn]thousands H505 of Israel.

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Then the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered and spoke to the heads of the thousands H505 of Israel.

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So Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands H505 of Israel who were with him, heard the words which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spoke. And it was good in their sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:10 - “One of your men will pursue one thousand H505, for Yahweh your God is He who fights for you, just as He [fn]promised you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:4 - So Judah went up, and Yahweh gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down 10,000 H505 men at Bezek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - And they struck down at that time about 10,000 H505 Moabites, all robust and valiant men; and no one escaped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - Then she sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, “Has not Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, and take with you 10,000 H505 men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:10 - Then Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh, and 10,000 H505 men went up [fn]with him; Deborah also went up with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14 - And Deborah said to Barak, “Arise! For this is the day in which Yahweh has given Sisera into your hand; has not Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 H505 men following him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 -

“[fn]God chose new leaders;

Then war was in the gates.

Not a shield or a spear was seen

Among forty thousand H505 in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - “So now, [fn]come, call out in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is afraid and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So 22,000 H505 people returned, but 10,000 H505 remained.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 -

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their camps with them, about 15,000 H505 men, all who were left of the entire camp of the sons of the east; for the fallen were 120,000 H505 men who drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:26 - And the weight of the gold earrings that he requested was 1,700 H505 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and besides the neck bands that were on their camels’ necks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - And all the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about one thousand H505 men and women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - then they would say to him, “Say now, ‘Shibboleth.’” But he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not [fn]pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. Thus there fell at that time 42,000 H505 of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then 3,000 H505 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:15 - And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he sent forth his hand and took it and struck down 1,000 H505 men with it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - Then Samson said,

“With the jawbone of a donkey,

[fn]Heaps upon heaps,

With the jawbone of a donkey

I have struck down 1,000 H505 men.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:5 - And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see where his great strength lies and [fn]how we may overpower him that we may bind him to afflict him. Then we will each give you 1,100 H505 pieces of silver.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the house was full of men and women, and all the lords of the Philistines were there. And about 3,000 H505 men and women were on the roof looking on while Samson was amusing them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:2 - He said to his mother, “The 1,100 H505 pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse and spoke of it [fn]in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; it was I who took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - And he then returned the 1,100 H505 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly set apart the silver from my hand as holy to Yahweh for my son to make a graven image and a molten image; so now I will return [fn]them to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:2 - And the [fn]chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, took their stand in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 H505 foot [fn]soldiers who draw the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:10 - “And we will take 10 men out of 100 throughout the tribes of Israel, and 100 out of 1,000 H505, and 1,000 H505 out of 10,000 H505 in order to take up provisions for the people, that when they come to [fn]Gibeah of Benjamin, they may do to them according to all the disgraceful acts that they have done in Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15 - And from the cities on that day the sons of Benjamin were [fn]numbered, 26,000 H505 men who draw the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah who were [fn]numbered, 700 choice men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:17 -

And the men of Israel besides Benjamin were [fn]numbered, 400,000 H505 men who draw the sword; all these were men of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:21 - Then the sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and destroyed to the ground on that day 22,000 H505 men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:25 - And Benjamin went out to meet them from Gibeah the second day and destroyed to the ground again 18,000 H505 men of the sons of Israel; all these drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34 - Then 10,000 H505 choice men from all Israel came against Gibeah, and the battle became heavy; but [fn]Benjamin did not know that [fn]calamity was [fn]about to reach them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35 - Then Yahweh [fn]defeated Benjamin before Israel, so that the sons of Israel destroyed 25,100 H505 men of Benjamin that day, all [fn]who drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:44 - Thus 18,000 H505 men of Benjamin fell; all these were valiant men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - [fn]And the rest turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, but they [fn]caught 5,000 H505 of them on the highways and overtook them [fn]at Gidom and struck down 2,000 H505 of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:46 - So all of Benjamin who fell that day were 25,000 H505 men who drew the sword; all these were valiant men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:10 - And the congregation sent 12,000 H505 of the men of valor there and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:2 - And the Philistines arranged themselves to meet Israel. Then the battle spread, and Israel was [fn]defeated before the Philistines who struck down about 4,000 H505 men on the battlefield.

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So the Philistines fought, and Israel was [fn]defeated, and every man fled to his tent; and the slaughter was very great, for there fell of Israel 30,000 H505 foot soldiers.

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Then He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 H505 men, and the people mourned because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:12 - “And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands H505 and of fifties, and some to [fn]do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:19 - “But you have today rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses; yet you have [fn]said, ‘No, but set a king over us!’ So now, take your stand before Yahweh by your tribes and by your clans H505.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:8 - And he [fn]numbered them in Bezek; and the sons of Israel were 300,000 H505, and the men of Judah 30,000 H505.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 -

And Saul chose for himself 3,000 H505 men of Israel, of which 2,000 H505 were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while 1,000 H505 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. But he sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent.

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Now the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, 30,000 H505 chariots and 6,000 H505 horsemen and people like the sand which is on the seashore in abundance; and they came up and camped in Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

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Then Saul summoned the people and [fn]numbered them in Telaim, 200,000 H505 foot soldiers and 10,000 H505 men of Judah.


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