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)


  • Numbers 31:5 - So there were delivered a thousand of Israel a thousand of every tribe twelve a thousand armed for war

  • Numbers 31:6 - sent And Moses a thousand of every tribe them to the war them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest them to the war instruments with the holy and the trumpets to blow in his hand

  • Numbers 31:14 - was wroth And Moses with the officers of the host and captains over thousands and captains over hundreds which came from the battle

  • Numbers 31:32 - And the booty being the rest of the prey had caught which the men of war sheep was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand

  • Numbers 31:33 - beeves And threescore and twelve thousand

  • Numbers 31:34 - asses and one And threescore thousand

  • Numbers 31:35 - persons of women that had not known by lying man in all persons and two And thirty thousand

  • Numbers 31:36 - And the half which was the portion of them that went out to war was in number sheep three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred

  • Numbers 31:38 - And the beeves and six were thirty thousand tribute of which the LORD'S was threescore and twelve

  • Numbers 31:39 - And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred tribute of which the LORD'S and one was threescore

  • Numbers 31:40 - persons And the persons were sixteen thousand tribute of which the LORD'S and two was thirty persons

  • Numbers 31:43 - Now the half that pertained unto the congregation sheep was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred

  • Numbers 31:44 - beeves and six And thirty thousand

  • Numbers 31:45 - asses And thirty thousand and five hundred

  • Numbers 31:46 - persons And sixteen thousand

  • Numbers 31:48 - came near unto Moses And the officers of thousands of the host and captains of thousands and captains of hundreds

  • Numbers 31:52 - And all the gold of the offering that they offered up to the LORD was sixteen of thousands seven hundred and fifty shekels and of the captains of thousands and of the captains hundred

  • Numbers 31:54 - took And Moses and Eleazar the priest the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD

  • Numbers 35:4 - And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites shall reach from the wall of the cities and outward a thousand cubits round about

  • Numbers 35:5 - And ye shall measure from without and the city side on the east two thousand cubits side and on the south two thousand cubits side and on the west two thousand cubits side and on the north two thousand cubits and the city shall be in the midst this shall be to them the suburbs and the city