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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 1 / 8 (Gen 20:16–Num 4:36)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16 - To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:60

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - They blessed Rivka, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:37

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:37 - The children of Yisra'el traveled from Ra`meses to Sukkot, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:21 - Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:25 - Moshe chose able men out of all Yisra'el, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:6 - and showing lovingkindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my mitzvot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:28 - The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moshe: 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 lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:25 - The silver of those who were numbered of the congregation was one hundred talents, and one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:28 - Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:29

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:16 - These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Re'uven, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:23 - those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Shim`on, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:25

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Yehudah, were sixty-four thousand six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:29

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:31

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:33

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:35

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:37

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:39 - those who 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 who 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 who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naftali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:46 - even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:4 - His division, and those who 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 - His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:8 - His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - All who were numbered of the camp of Yehudah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - His division, and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:13 - His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 - His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:16 - "All who were numbered of the camp of Re'uven were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their hosts. They shall set out second.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:19 - His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:21 - His division, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:23

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:24 - "All who were numbered of the camp of Efrayim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:26 - His division, and those who were numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:28 - His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:30 - His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:31 - "All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 - These are those who were numbered of the children of Yisra'el by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:22 - Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those who 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, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:34 - Those who 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 who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moshe and Aharon numbered at the mitzvah of the LORD, by 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 - All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:50 - from the firstborn of the children of Yisra'el he took the money, one thousand three hundred sixty-five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:36 - Those who were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty.

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