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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)
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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 - Their numbered men by their families, by their fathers’ households, were 2,630. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:44 - Their numbered men by their families were 3,200. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:48

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:48 - Their numbered men were 8,580. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 7:85

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:85 - each silver dish weighing one hundred and thirty shekels and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the utensils was 2,400 H505 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:4 - “Yet if only one is blown, then the leaders, the heads of the [fn]divisions H505 of Israel, shall assemble before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:36 - When it came to rest, he said,
“Return, O LORD,
To the myriad thousands H505 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, are 600,000 H505 on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:49 - But those who died by the plague were 14,700, H505 besides those who died on account of Korah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:9 - Those who died by the plague were 24,000. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7 - These are the families of the Reubenites, and those who were numbered of them were 43,730. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:14 - These are the families of the Simeonites, 22,200. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18 - These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, 40,500. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:22 - These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, 76,500. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:25 - These are the families of Issachar according to those who were numbered of them, 64,300. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:27 - These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, 60,500. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:34 - These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were 52,700. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:37 - These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, 32,500. H505 These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41 - These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were 45,600. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:43 - All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those who were numbered of them, were 64,400. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:47 - These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those who were numbered of them, 53,400. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:50 - These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were 45,400. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:51

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:51 - These are those who were numbered of the sons of Israel, 601,730. H505 H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 26:62

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - Those who were numbered of them were 23,000, H505 every male from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the sons of Israel since no inheritance was given to them among the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:4 - “A thousand H505 from each tribe of all the tribes of Israel you shall send to the war.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:5 - So there were [fn]furnished from the thousands H505 of Israel, a thousand H505 from each tribe, twelve thousand H505 armed for war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:6 - Moses sent them, a thousand H505 from each tribe, to the war, and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war with them, and the holy vessels and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:14 - Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands H505 and the captains 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 booty that remained from the spoil which the [fn]men of war had plundered was 675,000 H505 H505 H505 sheep,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:33 - and 72,000 H505 cattle,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:34 - and 61,000 H505 donkeys,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:35 - and of human beings, of the women who had not known man [fn]intimately, all the persons were 32,000. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:36 - The half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500, H505 H505 H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:38 - and the cattle were 36,000, H505 from which the LORD’S levy was 72;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:39 - and the donkeys were 30,500, H505 from which the LORD’S levy was 61;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:40 - and the human beings were 16,000, H505 from whom the LORD’S levy 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 H505 H505 H505 sheep,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:44

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:44 - and 36,000 H505 cattle,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:45

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:45 - and 30,500 H505 donkeys,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:46 - and the human beings were 16,000— H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:48

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:48 - Then the officers who were over the thousands H505 of the army, the captains of thousands H505 and the captains of hundreds, approached Moses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:52 - All the gold of the offering which they offered up to the LORD, from the captains of thousands H505 and the captains of hundreds, was 16,750 H505 shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:54

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:54 - So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the captains of thousands H505 and of hundreds, and brought it to the tent of meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 - “The pasture lands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall extend from the wall of the city [fn]outward a thousand H505 cubits around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - “You shall also measure outside the city on the east side two thousand H505 cubits, and on the south side two thousand H505 cubits, and on the west side two thousand H505 cubits, and on the north side two thousand H505 cubits, with the city in the center. This shall become theirs as pasture lands for the cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:11 - ‘May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold H505 more than you are and bless you, just as He has [fn]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 [fn]appointed them heads over you, leaders of thousands H505 and [fn]of hundreds, [fn]of fifties and [fn]of tens, and officers for your tribes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:10 - but showing lovingkindness to thousands, H505 to 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, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps [fn]His covenant and [fn]His lovingkindness to a thousandth H505 generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - “How could one chase a thousand, H505
And two 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 - “As the firstborn of his ox, majesty is his,
And his horns are the horns of the wild ox;
With them he will push the peoples,
All [fn]at once, to the ends of the earth.
And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
And those are the thousands H505 of Manasseh.”

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