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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 62 times in 38 verses in '2Ch' in the WLC Hebrew.

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And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands H505 and of hundreds and to the judges and to every leader in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ households.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:6 - And Solomon went up there before Yahweh to the bronze altar which was at the tent of meeting, and offered one thousand H505 burnt offerings on it.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:2 - [fn]So Solomon numbered 70,000 H505 men to carry loads and 80,000 H505 men to hew stone in the mountains and 3,600 H505 to direct them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10 - “And behold, I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, [fn]20,000 H505 kors of crushed wheat and 20,000 H505 kors of barley, and [fn]20,000 H505 baths of wine and 20,000 H505 baths of oil.”

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Then Solomon numbered all the sojourners who were in the land of Israel, following the [fn]census which his father David had [fn]taken; and 153,600 H505 H505 were found.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:18 - And he made 70,000 H505 of them to carry loads and 80,000 H505 as hewers of stone in the mountains and 3,600 H505 directors to make the people work.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - 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 3,000 H505 baths.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:5 - And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 H505 oxen and 120,000 H505 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

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And Solomon had 4,000 H505 stalls for horses and chariots and 12,000 H505 horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:3 - with 1,200 H505 chariots and 60,000 H505 horsemen. And the people who came with him from Egypt were without number: the Lubim, the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:3 - And Abijah began the battle with a military force of mighty men, 400,000 H505 chosen men, while Jeroboam arranged them all for battle against him with 800,000 H505 chosen men who were mighty men of valor.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:17 - And Abijah and his people struck them down with a great slaughter, and 500,000 H505 chosen men of Israel fell slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:8 - Now Asa had a military force of 300,000 H505 from Judah, bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 H505 from Benjamin, bearing shields and wielding bows; all of them were mighty men of valor.

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Then Zerah the Ethiopian went out against them with a military force of one million H505 men and 300 chariots, and he came to Mareshah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:11 - And they sacrificed to Yahweh that day 700 oxen and 7,000 H505 sheep from the spoil they had brought.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:11 - Indeed, some of the Philistines brought presents and silver as their tax burden to Jehoshaphat; the Arabians also brought him flocks, 7,700 H505 rams and 7,700 H505 male goats.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:14 - This was their muster according to their fathers’ households:

of Judah, commanders of thousands H505, Adnah was the commander, and with him 300,000 H505 mighty men of valor;

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and next to him was Johanan the commander, and with him 280,000 H505;

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and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who volunteered for Yahweh, and with him 200,000 H505 mighty men of valor;

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and of Benjamin, Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him 200,000 H505 equipped with bow and shield;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:18

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and next to him Jehozabad, and with him 180,000 H505 armed for military duty.

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Moreover, Amaziah assembled Judah and appointed them according to their fathers’ households under commanders of thousands H505 and commanders of hundreds throughout Judah and Benjamin; and he [fn]took a census of those from twenty years old and upward and found them to be 300,000 H505 choice men, able to go out for military duty, able to handle spear and large shield.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:6 - And he hired also 100,000 H505 mighty men of valor out of Israel for one hundred [fn]talents of silver.

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Now Amaziah strengthened himself and led his people forth, and went to the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 H505 of the sons of Seir.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:12 - The sons of Judah also captured 10,000 H505 alive and brought them to the top of the cliff and threw them down from the top of the cliff, so that they were all split open.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:13 - But the [fn]troops whom Amaziah sent back from going with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 H505 of them and plundered much plunder.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:12 - The total number of the heads of the [fn]households, of mighty men of valor, was 2,600 H505.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:13 - And under their hand was a [fn]mighty army of 307,500 H505 H505, who could wage war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:5 - He fought also with the king of the sons of Ammon and prevailed over them. So the sons of Ammon gave him during that year [fn]100 talents of silver, [fn]10,000 H505 kors of wheat, and 10,000 H505 of barley. The sons of Ammon also brought back to him this amount in the second and in the third year.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:6 - Indeed, Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah 120,000 H505 in one day, all men of valor, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

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Then the sons of Israel carried away captive of their brothers 200,000 H505 women, sons, and daughters; and they plundered also a great deal of spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:33 - And the holy things were 600 bulls and 3,000 H505 sheep.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:24 - For Hezekiah king of Judah had contributed to the assembly 1,000 H505 bulls and 7,000 H505 sheep, and the princes had contributed to the assembly 1,000 H505 bulls and 10,000 H505 sheep; and a large number of priests set themselves apart as holy.

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And Josiah contributed to the lay people, to all who were present, flocks of lambs and young goats, all for the Passover offerings, numbering 30,000 H505 plus 3,000 H505 bulls; these were from the king’s possessions.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:8 - His officials also contributed a freewill offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 H505 from the flocks and 300 bulls.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:9 - Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the [fn]officials of the Levites, contributed to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 H505 from the flocks and 500 bulls.
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