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)


  • 1 Samuel 10:19 - And ye have this day rejected your God who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations and ye have said a king unto him Nay but set over us Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands

  • 1 Samuel 11:8 - And when he numbered them in Bezek the children of Israel were three hundred thousand and the men of Judah thirty thousand

  • 1 Samuel 13:2 - chose Saul him three and a thousand men of Israel Saul and a thousand in Michmash and in mount Bethel and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent

  • 1 Samuel 13:5 - And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and people as the sand shore which is on the sea in multitude and they came up and pitched in Michmash eastward from Bethaven

  • 1 Samuel 15:4 - gathered And Saul the people and numbered them in Telaim two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah

  • 1 Samuel 17:5 - And he had an helmet of brass upon his head of the coat of mail and he was armed and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass

  • 1 Samuel 17:18 - these ten cheeses And carry unto the captain of their thousand how thy brethren and look fare their pledge and take

  • 1 Samuel 18:7 - answered And the women one another as they played and said hath slain Saul his thousands and David his ten thousands

  • 1 Samuel 18:8 - wroth And Saul was very displeased and the saying him and he said They have ascribed unto David ten thousands They have ascribed but thousands and what can he have more but the kingdom

  • 1 Samuel 18:13 - removed Therefore Saul him from him and made him his captain over a thousand and he went out and came in before the people

  • 1 Samuel 21:11 - said And the servants of Achish one to another of him and David the king of the land one to another of him did they not sing in dances said hath slain Saul his thousands and David his ten thousands

  • 1 Samuel 22:7 - said Then Saul unto his servants that stood about him Hear now will the son ye Benjamites give will the son of Jesse every one of you fields and vineyards and make and captains of thousands and captains of hundreds

  • 1 Samuel 23:23 - See therefore and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself and come ye again to me with the certainty and I will go with you and it shall come to pass if he be in the land that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah

  • 1 Samuel 24:2 - took Then Saul three thousand men chosen out of all Israel to seek David men upon the rocks of the wild goats

  • 1 Samuel 25:2 - And there was a man in Maon whose possessions in Carmel And there was a man great was very his sheep and he had three and a thousand and a thousand goats and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel

  • 1 Samuel 26:2 - arose Then Saul and went down in the wilderness of Ziph having three thousand men chosen of Israel with him to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph

  • 1 Samuel 29:2 - And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds and by thousands but David passed on in the rereward with Achish

  • 1 Samuel 29:5 - Is not this David of whom they sang one to another in dances saying slew Saul his thousands Is not this David his ten thousands

  • 2 Chronicles 1:2 - spake Then Solomon in all Israel to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every governor in all Israel the chief of the fathers

  • 2 Chronicles 1:6 - and offered And Solomon altar thither to the brasen before the LORD which was at the tabernacle of the congregation and offered burnt offerings a thousand