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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 - and to Sarah he hath said, 'Lo, I have given a thousand silverlings to thy brother; lo, it is to thee a covering of eyes, to all who are with thee;' and by all this she is reasoned with.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:60

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - and they bless Rebekah, and say to her, 'Thou art our sister; become thou thousands of myriads, and thy seed doth possess the gate of those hating it.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:37

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:37 - And the sons of Israel journey from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, apart from infants;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:21 - 'And thou -- thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed these over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:25 - and Moses chooseth men of ability out of all Israel, and maketh them chiefs over the people, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:6 - and doing kindness to thousands, of those loving Me and keeping My commands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:28 - And the sons of Levi do according to the word of Moses, and there fall of the people on that day about three thousand men,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:7 - keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third generation, and on a fourth.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:25 - And the silver of those numbered of the company is a hundred talents, and a thousand and seven hundred and five and seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - a bekah for a poll (half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary,) for every one who is passing over unto those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, for six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:28 - and the thousand and seven hundred and five and seventy he hath made pegs for the pillars, and overlaid their tops, and filleted them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:29 - And the brass of the wave-offering is seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:16 - These are those called of the company, princes of the tribes of their fathers; they are heads of the thousands of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:21 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:23 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Simeon, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:25 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Gad, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Judah, are four and seventy thousand and six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:29 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Issachar, are four and fifty thousand and four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:31 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Zebulun, are seven and fifty thousand and four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:33 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Ephraim, are forty thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:35 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Manasseh, are two and thirty thousand and two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:37 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Benjamin, are five and thirty thousand and four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:39 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Dan, are two and sixty thousand and seven hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:41 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Asher, are one and forty thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:43 - their numbered ones, for the tribe of Naphtali, are three and fifty thousand and four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:46 - yea, all those numbered are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:4 - and his host, and their numbered ones, are four and seventy thousand and six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:6 - and his host, and its numbered ones, are four and fifty thousand and four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:8 - and his host, and its numbered ones, are seven and fifty thousand and four hundred;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - all those numbered of the camp of Judah are a hundred thousand, and eighty thousand, and six thousand, and four hundred, by their hosts; they journey first.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:11 - and his host, and its numbered ones, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:13 - and his host, and their numbered ones, are nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:15 - and his host, and their numbered ones, are five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:16 - All those numbered of the camp of Reuben are a hundred thousand, and one and fifty thousand, and four hundred and fifty, by their hosts; and they journey second.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:19 - and his host, and their numbered ones, are forty thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:21 - and his host, and their numbered ones, are two and thirty thousand, and two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:23 - and his host, and their numbered ones, are five and thirty thousand and four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:24 - All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim are a hundred thousand, and eight thousand, and a hundred, by their hosts; and they journey third.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:26 - and his host, and their numbered ones, are two and sixty thousand and seven hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:28 - and his host, and their numbered ones, are one and forty thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:30 - and his host, and their numbered ones, are three and fifty thousand and four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:31 - All those numbered of the camp of Dan are a hundred thousand, and seven and fifty thousand, and six hundred; at the rear they journey, by their standards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:32 - These are those numbered of the sons of Israel by the house of their fathers; all those numbered of the camps by their hosts are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:22 - Their numbered ones, in number, every male from a son of a month and upward, their numbered ones are seven thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - In number, all the males, from a son of a month and upward, are eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:34 - And their numbered ones, in number, all the males from a son of a month and upward, are six thousand and two hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39 - All those numbered of the Levites whom Moses numbered -- Aaron also -- by the command of Jehovah, by their families, every male from a son of a month and upward, are two and twenty thousand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:43 - And all the first-born -- male -- by the number of names, from a son of a month and upward, of their numbered ones, are two and twenty thousand two hundred and seventy and three.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:50

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:50 - from the first-born of the sons of Israel he hath taken the money, a thousand and three hundred and sixty and five -- by the shekel of the sanctuary;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:36 - and their numbered ones, by their families, are two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

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