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)


  • Judges 15:11 - went Then three thousand men of Judah to the top of the rock Etam and said to Samson Knowest are rulers thou not that the Philistines over us what is this that thou hast done and said over us what is this that thou hast done over us what is this that thou hast done

  • Judges 15:15 - And he found jawbone of an ass a new and put forth his hand and took it and slew a thousand men

  • Judges 15:16 - said And Samson With the jawbone of an ass heaps heaps With the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men

  • Judges 16:5 - came up And the lords of the Philistines unto her and said unto her Entice him and see strength wherein his great lieth and by what means we may prevail against him that we may bind him to afflict him and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver

  • Judges 16:27 - Now the house was full of men and women and all the lords of the Philistines were there and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women that beheld made sport while Samson

  • Judges 17:2 - And he said it And his mother The eleven hundred behold the silver is with me I took from thee about which thou cursedst And he said of also in mine ears behold the silver is with me I took And he said it And his mother Blessed my son be thou of the LORD

  • Judges 17:3 - And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver his mother said his mother I had wholly I had wholly shekels of silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son to make a graven image and a molten image And when he had restored

  • Judges 20:2 - presented And the chief of all the people even of all the tribes of Israel themselves in the assembly of all the people of God four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword

  • Judges 20:10 - And we will take ten and an hundred throughout all the tribes in Israel and an hundred and a thousand and a thousand out of ten thousand And we will take victual for the people that they have wrought when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel

  • Judges 20:15 - were numbered And the children of Benjamin at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword beside the inhabitants of Gibeah were numbered seven hundred men

  • Judges 20:17 - And the men of Israel were numbered beside Benjamin four hundred thousand And the men that drew sword And the men of war

  • Judges 20:21 - came forth And the children of Benjamin out of Gibeah and destroyed down of the Israelites that day and two twenty thousand men to the ground

  • Judges 20:25 - went forth And Benjamin against them out of Gibeah day the second and destroyed down of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men to the ground all these drew the sword

  • Judges 20:34 - And there came against Gibeah ten thousand men chosen out of all Israel and the battle was sore but they knew was near not that evil

  • Judges 20:35 - smote And the LORD Benjamin before Israel destroyed and the children Israel Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men all these drew the sword

  • Judges 20:44 - And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men men of valour

  • Judges 20:45 - And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men and pursued hard after them unto Gidom and slew thousand men

  • Judges 20:46 - So that all which fell of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword that day men of valour

  • Judges 21:10 - sent And the congregation thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest and commanded them saying and smite the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword with the women and the children

  • Micah 5:2 - But thou Bethlehem Ephratah though thou be little among the thousands of Judah yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel whose goings forth have been from of old from everlasting