Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H505: אֶלֶף (ʼeleph) Definition

Strong's number
H505
Lemma
אֶלֶף
Transliteration
ʼeleph
Pronunciation
eh'-lef
Strong's definition
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand thousand. prop, the same as H504 (אֶלֶף);

390 instances of the word אֶלֶף ʼeleph (H505)


  • Joshua 7:3 - And they returned to Joshua and said go up and make not all the people thousand men but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai to labour and make not all the people thither for they are but few

  • Joshua 7:4 - So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men and they fled before men of Ai

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

  • Joshua 8:12 - And he took about five thousand men and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai on the west side

  • Joshua 8:25 - And so it was that all that fell that day both of men and women were twelve thousand both of men of Ai

  • Joshua 22:14 - And with him ten chief chief of each chief of each house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel and each one was an head house a prince among the thousands of Israel

  • Joshua 22:21 - answered Then the children of Reuben Then the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel

  • Joshua 22:30 - which were with him heard And when Phinehas the priest and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel the words spake and the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh it pleased

  • Joshua 23:10 - man One of you shall chase a thousand for the LORD your God he it is that fighteth for you as he hath promised

  • Judges 1:4 - went up And Judah delivered and the LORD the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men

  • Judges 3:29 - And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand and all men all lusty and all men of valour and there escaped and all men

  • Judges 4:6 - And she sent and called Barak and of the children of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali of Naphtali and said commanded unto him Hath not the LORD God of Israel and draw toward mount Tabor and take with thee ten thousand men and of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun

  • Judges 4:10 - called And Barak Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh and he went up at his feet with ten thousand men and he went up and Deborah

  • Judges 4:14 - said And Deborah thee So Barak Up for this is the day hath delivered in which the LORD Sisera into thine hand in which the LORD gone out before went down thee So Barak from mount Tabor and ten thousand men after

  • Judges 5:8 - They chose gods new then was war in the gates was there a shield seen or spear among forty thousand in Israel

  • Judges 7:3 - proclaim Now therefore go to in the ears of the people saying Whosoever is fearful and afraid And there returned and depart early from mount Gilead And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand ten thousand and there remained

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

  • Judges 8:26 - And the weight earrings of the golden that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred of the golden beside ornaments and collars raiment and purple that was on the kings of Midian and beside the chains necks that were about their camels

  • Judges 9:49 - likewise cut down And all the people every man his bough Abimelech and put the hold and set the hold on fire died every man of the tower of Shechem also about a thousand every man and women

  • Judges 12:6 - Then said Then said now Shibboleth Then said Sibboleth for he could not frame to pronounce 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