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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 507 times in 390 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 8 (1Sa 17:5–2Ki 18:23)

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:5 - And he had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor, and the weight of that scale-armor was five thousand H505 [fn]shekels of bronze.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:18 - “You shall also bring these ten cuts of cheese to the commander of their thousand H505, and look into the welfare of your brothers, and bring back [fn]a token from them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:7 - And the women sang as they [fn]were merry and said,

“Saul has struck his thousands H505,

And David his ten thousands.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:8 -

Then Saul became very angry, for this saying was [fn]displeasing in his eyes; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed thousands H505. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:13 - Therefore Saul turned him away from [fn]his presence and appointed him as his commander of one thousand H505; and he went out and came in before the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:11 - But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David the king of the land? Did they not sing of this one as they danced, saying,

‘Saul has struck his thousands H505,

And David his ten thousands’?”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:7 - And Saul said to his servants who were standing around him, “Hear now, O Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse also give to all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all commanders of thousands H505 and commanders of hundreds?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:23 - “So see and know about all the hiding places where he hides himself and return to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands H505 of Judah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - Then Saul took three thousand H505 chosen men from all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:2 -

Now there was a man in Maon whose work was in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand H505 sheep and one thousand H505 goats. And it happened, while he was shearing his sheep in Carmel

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2 - So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having with him three thousand H505 chosen men of Israel, to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:2 - And the lords of the Philistines were proceeding on by hundreds and by thousands H505, and David and his men were proceeding on in the rear with Achish.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:5 - “Is this not David, of whom they sing in the dances, saying,

‘Saul has struck his thousands H505,

And David his ten thousands’?”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:1 -

Then David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand H505.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:4 - And David captured from him 1,700 H505 horsemen and 20,000 H505 foot soldiers; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough of them for 100 chariots.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:5 - Then the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah. And David struck down 22,000 H505 Arameans.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:13 -

So David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down 18,000 H505 [fn]Arameans in the Valley of Salt.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:6 -

Then the sons of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David. So the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Arameans of Beth-rehob and the Arameans of Zobah, 20,000 H505 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 H505 men, and the men of Tob with 12,000 H505 men.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:18 - But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed of the Arameans 700 charioteers and 40,000 H505 horsemen and struck down Shobach the commander of their army, and he died there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:1 -

Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Please let me choose 12,000 H505 men that I may arise and pursue David tonight.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:1 -

Then David [fn]numbered the people who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands H505 and commanders of hundreds.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:3 - But the people said, “You should not go out; for if we indeed flee, they will not set their heart on us; even if half of us die, they will not set their heart on us. But now [fn]you are worth ten thousand H505 of us; so now it is better that you be ready to help us from the city.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:4 - Then the king said to them, “Whatever is good in your sight I will do.” So the king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and thousands H505.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:7 - And the people of Israel were [fn]defeated there before the servants of David, and the slaughter there that day was great, 20,000 H505 men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - So the man said to Joab, “Even if I should receive one thousand H505 pieces of silver in my hand, I would not send forth my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘[fn]Keep for me the young man Absalom!’
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:17 - Now there were one thousand H505 men of Benjamin with him, with Ziba the young man of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they rushed to the Jordan before the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:9 - And Joab gave the total count of the [fn]census of the people to the king; and there were in Israel 800,000 H505 valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000 H505 men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:15 -

So Yahweh [fn]sent a pestilence against Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and 70,000 H505 men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:4 - And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place; Solomon offered one thousand H505 burnt offerings on that altar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:26 - Solomon had [fn]40,000 H505 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 H505 horsemen.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:32 - He also spoke 3,000 H505 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005 H505.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:11 - Solomon then gave Hiram [fn]20,000 H505 kors of wheat as food for his household, and [fn]20 kors of beaten oil; thus Solomon would give Hiram year by year.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:13 -

And King Solomon raised up forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers [fn]numbered 30,000 H505 men.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:14 - And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 H505 a month in [fn]shifts; they were in Lebanon a month and two months at home. And Adoniram was over the forced laborers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:15 - And Solomon had 70,000 H505 [fn]who carried loads, and 80,000 H505 hewers of stone in the mountains,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:16 - besides Solomon’s 3,300 H505 chief deputies who were over the [fn]project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - And it was a [fn]handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold [fn]two thousand H505 baths.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63 - And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, 22,000 H505 oxen and 120,000 H505 sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:26 -

And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. And he had 1,400 H505 chariots and 12,000 H505 horsemen and [fn]stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:21 -

Then Rehoboam came to Jerusalem and assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 H505 chosen men who could wage war, to fight against the house of Israel to return the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:18 - “Yet I will leave 7,000 H505 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:15 - Then he mustered the young men of the rulers of the provinces, and there were 232; and after them he mustered all the people, even all the sons of Israel, 7,000 H505.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:29 - So they camped one opposite the other seven days. Now it happened that on the seventh day the battle was joined, and the sons of Israel struck down of the Arameans 100,000 H505 foot soldiers in one day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:30 - But the rest fled to Aphek into the city, and the wall fell on 27,000 H505 men who were left. And Ben-hadad fled and came into the city into an inner chamber.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:4 -

Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder and used to pay the king of Israel 100,000 H505 lambs and the wool of 100,000 H505 rams.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:5 - Then the king of Aram said, “Go [fn]now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So he went and took in his hand [fn]ten talents of silver and [fn]six thousand H505 shekels of gold and ten changes of clothes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:7 - For he did not leave to Jehoahaz any people for the army except 50 horsemen and 10 chariots and 10,000 H505 foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had caused them to perish and made them like the dust at threshing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:7 -

He struck down 10,000 H505 of Edom in the Valley of Salt and seized Sela by war and named it Joktheel to this day.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:19 -

Pul, king of Assyria, came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul one thousand H505 [fn]talents of silver so that his hand might be with him to strengthen the kingdom in his hand.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:23 - “So now, [fn]come, make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand H505 horses, if you are able on your part to give riders for them.

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