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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 1 / 8 (Gen 20:16–Num 4:36)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16 - And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver; behold, let that be to thee a covering of the eyes, in respect of all that are with thee, and with all; and she was reproved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:60

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - And they blessed Rebecca, and said to her, Thou art our sister; mayest thou become thousands of tens of thousands; and may thy seed possess the gate of their enemies!

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:37

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:37 - And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:21 - But do thou provide among all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place them over them, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:25 - And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:6 - and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:28 - And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:7 - keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:25 - And the silver of them that were numbered of the assembly was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - a bekah the head -- half a shekel, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that passed the numbering from twenty years old and upward, of the six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:28 - And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made the hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and fastened them with rods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:29 - And the copper of the wave-offering was seventy talents, and two thousand four hundred shekels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:16 - These were those summoned of the assembly, princes of the tribes of their fathers, the heads of the thousands of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:23 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:29 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:31 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:35 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:37 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:39 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:43 - those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:46 - all they that were numbered were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:4 - and his host, even those that were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:6 - and his host, even those that were numbered thereof, fifty-four thousand four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:8 - and his host, even those that were numbered thereof, fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their hosts. They shall set forth first.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - and his host, even those that were numbered thereof, forty-six thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:13 - and his host, even those that were numbered of them, fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 - and his host, even those that were numbered of them, forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:16 - All that were numbered of the camp of Reuben were a hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty, according to their hosts. And they shall set forth second.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:19 - and his host, even those that were numbered of them, forty thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:21 - and his host, even those that were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:23 - and his host, even those that were numbered of them, thirty-five thousand four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:24 - All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were a hundred and eight thousand one hundred, according to their hosts. And they shall set forth third.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:26 - and his host, even those that were numbered of them, sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:28 - and his host, even those that were numbered of them, forty-one thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:30 - and his host, even those that were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:31 - All that were numbered of the camp of Dan were a hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set forth last according to their standards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 - These are those that were numbered of the children of Israel, according to their fathers' houses: all those that were numbered of the camps, according to their hosts, were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:22 - Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, those that were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were eight thousand six hundred, who kept the charge of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:34 - And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39 - All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Jehovah, according to their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:43 - And all the firstborn males, by the number of the names, from a month old and upward, according to their numbering, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:50 - of the firstborn of the children of Israel he took the money, a thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:36 - And those that were numbered of them according to their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

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