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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 3 / 8 (Jos 3:4–1Sa 15:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:4 - Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand H505 cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:13 - About forty thousand H505 prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:3 - And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand H505 men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:4 - So there went up thither of the people about three thousand H505 men: and they fled before the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:3 - So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand H505 mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - And he took about five thousand H505 men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:25 - And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, H505 even all the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:14 - And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands H505 of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:21 - Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands H505 of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:30 - And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands H505 of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:10 - One man of you shall chase a thousand: H505 for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:4 - And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand H505 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand H505 men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand H505 men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:10 - And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand H505 men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14 - And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand H505 men after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 - They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand H505 in Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; H505 and there remained ten thousand. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 - Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand H505 men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand H505 men that drew sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:26 - And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand H505 and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand H505 men and women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then three thousand H505 men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:15 - And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand H505 men therewith.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand 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 unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred 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 there were upon the roof about three thousand H505 men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:2 - And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred H505 shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - And when he had restored the eleven hundred H505 shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:2 - And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand H505 footmen that drew sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:10 - And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, H505 and a thousand H505 out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15 - And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand H505 men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:17 - And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand H505 men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:21 - And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand H505 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:25 - And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand H505 men; all these drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34 - And there came against Gibeah ten thousand H505 chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35 - And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand H505 and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:44 - And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand H505 men; all these were men of valour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand H505 men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand H505 men of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:46 - So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand H505 men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:10 - And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand H505 men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:2 - And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand H505 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10 - And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand H505 footmen.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:19 - And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand H505 and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of 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 him captains over thousands, H505 and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:19 - And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:8 - And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, H505 and the men of Judah thirty thousand. H505

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 - Saul chose him three thousand H505 men of Israel; whereof two thousand H505 were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand H505 were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:5 - And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand H505 chariots, and six thousand H505 horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:4 - And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand H505 footmen, and ten thousand H505 men of Judah.

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