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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H505 matches the Hebrew אֶלֶף ('elep̄),
which occurs 505 times in 390 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 8 (Num 4:40–Deu 33:17)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:40 -

The men registered by their clans and their ancestral families numbered 2,630.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:44 -

The men registered by their clans numbered 3,200.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:48 -

Their registered men numbered 8,580.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:85 -

Each silver dish weighed 3 1/4 pounds,[fn] and each basin 1 3/4 pounds.[fn] The total weight of the silver articles was 60 pounds[fn] measured by the standard sanctuary shekel.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:4 -

“However, if one is sounded, only the leaders, the heads of Israel’s clans, are to gather before you.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:36 -

When it came to rest, he would say:

Return, LORD,

to the countless thousands of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:21 -

But Moses replied, “I’m in the middle of a people with six hundred thousand foot soldiers, yet you say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:49 -

But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who died because of the Korah incident.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:9 -

but those who died in the plague numbered twenty-four thousand.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7 -

These were the Reubenite clans,

and their registered men numbered 43,730.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:14 -

These were the Simeonite clans, numbering 22,200 men.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:18 -

These were the Gadite clans numbered by their registered men: 40,500.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:22 -

These were Judah’s clans numbered by their registered men: 76,500.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:25 -

These were Issachar’s clans numbered by their registered men: 64,300.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:27 -

These were the Zebulunite clans numbered by their registered men: 60,500.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:34 -

These were Manasseh’s clans, numbered by their registered men: 52,700.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:37 -

These were the Ephraimite clans numbered by their registered men: 32,500.

These were Joseph’s descendants by their clans.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:41 -

These were the Benjaminite clans numbered by their registered men: 45,600.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:43 -

All the Shuhamite clans numbered by their registered men: 64,400.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:47 -

These were the Asherite clans numbered by their registered men: 53,400.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:50 -

These were the Naphtali clans numbered by their registered men: 45,400.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:51 -

These registered Israelite men numbered 601,730.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 -

Those registered were 23,000, every male one month old or more; they were not registered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:4 -

“Send one thousand men to war from each Israelite tribe.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:5 -

So one thousand were recruited from each Israelite tribe out of the thousands[fn] in Israel ​— ​twelve thousand equipped for war.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:6 -

Moses sent one thousand from each tribe to war. They went with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, in whose care were the holy objects and signal trumpets.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:14 -

But Moses became furious with the officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who were returning from the military campaign.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:32 -

The captives remaining from the plunder the army had taken totaled:

675,000 sheep and goats,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:33 -

72,000 cattle,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:34 -

61,000 donkeys,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:35 -

and 32,000 people, all the females who had not gone to bed with a man.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:36 -

The half portion for those who went out to war numbered:

337,500 sheep and goats,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:38 -

from the 36,000 cattle,

the tribute to the LORD was 72;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:39 -

from the 30,500 donkeys,

the tribute to the LORD was 61;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:40 -

and from the 16,000 people,

the tribute to the LORD was 32 people.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:43 -

the community’s half was:

337,500 sheep and goats,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:44 -

36,000 cattle,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:45 -

30,500 donkeys,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:46 -

and 16,000 people.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:48 -

The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, approached Moses

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:52 -

All the gold of the contribution they offered to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, was 420 pounds.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:54 -

Moses and the priest Eleazar received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 -

“The pasturelands of the cities you are to give the Levites will extend from the city wall five hundred yards[fn] on every side.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 -

“Measure a thousand yards[fn] outside the city for the east side, a thousand yards for the south side, a thousand yards for the west side, and a thousand yards for the north side, with the city in the center. This will belong to them as pasturelands for the cities.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:11 -

“May the LORD, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times more, and bless you as he promised you.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:15 -

“So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and set them over you as leaders: commanders for thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and officers for your tribes.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:10 -

“but showing faithful love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commands.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:9 -

“Know that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps his gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commands.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 -

How could one pursue a thousand,

or two put ten thousand to flight,

unless their Rock had sold them,

unless the LORD had given them up?

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:17 -

His firstborn bull has[fn] splendor,

and horns like[fn] those of a wild ox;

he gores all the peoples with them

to the ends of the earth.

Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim,

and such are the thousands of Manasseh.


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