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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 3 / 8 (Jos 3:4–1Sa 15:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:4 - “However, there shall be a distance between you and it of about [fn]two H505 thousand H505 cubits by measurement. Do not come near it, so that you may know the way by which you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:13 - about forty thousand H505 equipped for war, crossed for battle before the LORD to the desert plains of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:3 - Then they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up; have only about two or three thousand H505 men go up and attack Ai; do not trouble all the people there, for they are few.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:4 - So about three thousand H505 men from the people went up there, but they fled [fn]from the men of Ai.

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So Joshua rose up with all the people of war to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand H505 men, valiant warriors, and sent them out at night.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:25 - So all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand H505—all the [fn]people of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:14 - and with him ten leaders, one leader for each father’s household from each of the tribes of Israel; and each one of them was the head of his father’s household among the [fn]thousands H505 of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:21 -

Then the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered and spoke to the heads of the [fn]families H505 of Israel.

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So when Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the congregation, that is, the heads of the [fn]families H505 of Israel who were with him, heard the words which the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the sons of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:10 - “One of your men puts to flight a thousand H505, for the LORD your God is He who fights for you, just as He [fn]promised you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:4 - Judah went up, and the LORD handed over to them the Canaanites and the Perizzites, and they [fn]defeated ten thousand H505 men at Bezek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - They struck and killed about ten thousand H505 Moabites at that time, all robust and valiant men; and no one escaped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - Now she sent word and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, “[fn]The LORD, the God of Israel, has indeed commanded, ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand H505 men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:10 - Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and ten thousand H505 men went up [fn]with him; Deborah also went up with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14 - Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise! For this is the day on which the LORD has handed Sisera over to you; [fn]behold, the LORD has gone out before you.” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand H505 men following him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 -

“New gods were chosen;

Then war was in the gates.

Not a shield or a spear was seen

Among forty thousand H505 in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - “Now therefore come, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is afraid and worried, is to return and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand H505 from the people returned, but ten thousand H505 remained.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:10 -

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their [fn]armies with them, about fifteen thousand H505 men, all who were left of the entire [fn]army of the [fn]people of the east; for the fallen were 120,000 H505 [fn]swordsmen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:26 - The weight of the gold earrings that he requested was 1,700 H505 shekels of gold, apart from the crescent amulets, the ear pendants, and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and apart from the neck chains that were on their camels’ necks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - So all the people also cut down, each one, his branch and followed Abimelech, and put them on top of the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand H505 men and women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - then they would say to him, “Just say, ‘Shibboleth.’” But he said, “Sibboleth,” for he was not [fn]prepared to [fn]pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the crossing places of the Jordan. So at that time forty-two thousand H505 from Ephraim fell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Then three thousand H505 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “Just as they did to me, so I have done to them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:15 - Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out with his hand and took it, and [fn]killed a thousand H505 men with it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - And Samson said,

“With the jawbone of a donkey,

[fn]Heaps upon heaps,

With the jawbone of a donkey

I have [fn]killed a thousand H505 men.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:5 - So the governors of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see where his great strength lies and [fn]how we can overpower him so that we may bind him to humble him. Then we will each give you 1,100 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 governors of the Philistines were there. And about three thousand H505 men and women were on the roof looking on while Samson was entertaining them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:2 - And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 H505 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse and also spoke it in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - He then returned the 1,100 H505 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly consecrate the silver from my hand to the LORD for my son to make a carved image and a cast metal image; so now I will return [fn]them to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:2 - And the [fn]leaders of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, took their stand in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand H505 foot [fn]soldiers who drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:10 - “And we will take ten men out of a hundred throughout the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of a thousand H505, and a thousand H505 out of ten thousand H505 to [fn]supply provisions for the people, so that when they come to [fn]Gibeah of Benjamin, they may [fn]punish them for all the vile sin that they have committed in Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:15 - From the cities on that day the sons of Benjamin were [fn]counted, twenty-six thousand H505 men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah who were [fn]counted, seven hundred choice men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:17 -

Then the men of Israel besides Benjamin were [fn]counted, four hundred thousand H505 men who drew the sword; all of these were men of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:21 - Then the sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and [fn]struck to the ground on that day twenty-two thousand H505 men of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:25

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34 - When ten thousand H505 choice men from all Israel came against Gibeah, the battle became [fn]fierce; but [fn]Benjamin did not know that disaster was [fn]close to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35 - And the LORD struck Benjamin before Israel, so that the sons of Israel destroyed 25,100 H505 men of Benjamin that [fn]day, all who drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:44 - So eighteen thousand H505 men of Benjamin fell; all of these were valiant men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:45

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:45 - [fn]The rest turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, but they [fn]caught five thousand H505 of them on the roads and overtook them [fn]at Gidom, and [fn]killed two H505 thousand H505 of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:46

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:10 - And the congregation sent twelve thousand H505 [fn]of the valiant warriors there, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, along with the women and the children.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:2 - Then the Philistines drew up in battle formation to meet Israel. When the battle [fn]spread, Israel was [fn]defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand H505 men on the battlefield.

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So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated, and every man fled to his tent; and the defeat was very great, for thirty thousand H505 foot soldiers of Israel fell.

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Now He fatally struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the LORD. He struck 50,070 H505 men among the people, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:12 - “He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands H505 and commanders of fifties, and some to [fn]do his plowing and to gather in his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:19 - “But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your catastrophes and your distresses; yet you have [fn]said, ‘No, but put a king over us!’ Now then, present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your [fn]groups H505 of H505 thousands H505.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:8 - He [fn]counted them in Bezek; and the sons of Israel were three hundred thousand H505, and the men of Judah, thirty thousand H505.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 -

Now Saul chose for himself three thousand H505 men of Israel, of whom two H505 thousand H505 were with Saul in Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, while a thousand H505 were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin. But he sent the rest of the people away, each to his tent.

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Now the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, thirty thousand H505 chariots and six thousand H505 horsemen, and people like the sand which is on the seashore in abundance; and they came up and camped in Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

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Then Saul summoned the people and [fn]counted them in Telaim: two hundred thousand H505 foot soldiers and ten thousand H505 men of Judah.


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