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Strong's #505: 'eleph (pronounced eh'-lef)

prop, the same as 504; hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand:--thousand.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'eleph

1) a thousand

1a) as numeral

2) a thousand, company

2a) as a company of men under one leader, troops

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: prop, the same as H504



Usage:

This word is used 504 times:

Judges 16:5: "him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver."
Judges 16:27: "and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson"
Judges 17:2: "And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that from thee, about which thou"
Judges 17:3: "And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, said,"
Judges 20:2: "of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword."
Judges 20:10: "of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual"
Judges 20:10: "of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people,"
Judges 20:15: "twenty and six thousand men that drew sword,"
Judges 20:17: "Benjamin, were numbered hundred thousand men that drew sword:"
Judges 20:21: "day twenty and two thousand men."
Judges 20:25: "of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these"
Judges 20:34: "against Gibeah ten thousand men out of all"
Judges 20:35: "day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men: all these"
Judges 20:44: "And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men;"
Judges 20:45: "and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto"
Judges 20:45: "them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of"
Judges 20:46: "of Benjamin twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword;"
Judges 21:10: "sent hither twelve thousand of the most valiant,"
1 Samuel 4:2: "of the army in the field about four thousand men."
1 Samuel 4:10: "for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen."
1 Samuel 6:19: "even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented,"
1 Samuel 8:12: "And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; his ground, and to reap"
1 Samuel 10:19: "therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands."
1 Samuel 11:8: "were hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand."
1 Samuel 11:8: "and the men of Judah thirty thousand."
1 Samuel 13:2: "Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; were"
1 Samuel 13:2: "him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul"
1 Samuel 13:2: "Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan"
1 Samuel 13:5: "with Israel, thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen,"
1 Samuel 13:5: "thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which"
1 Samuel 15:4: "gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten"
1 Samuel 15:4: "them in Telaim, two hundred footmen, and ten thousand men"
1 Samuel 17:5: "and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass."
1 Samuel 17:18: "ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare,"
1 Samuel 18:7: "and said, Saul his thousands, and David his ten thousands."
1 Samuel 18:8: "They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?"
1 Samuel 18:13: "him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before"
1 Samuel 21:11: "saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?"
1 Samuel 22:7: "and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;"
1 Samuel 23:23: "he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah."
1 Samuel 24:2: "Then Saul took three thousand chosen out of all"
1 Samuel 25:2: "great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was"
1 Samuel 25:2: "and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing"
1 Samuel 26:2: "the wilderness having three thousand chosen men of Israel with"
1 Samuel 29:2: "of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: and his men passed on in the rearward"
1 Samuel 29:5: "saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?"
2 Samuel 6:1: "men of Israel, thirty thousand."
2 Samuel 8:4: "And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven horsemen, and twenty"
2 Samuel 8:4: "horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David hamstrung"
2 Samuel 8:5: "of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men."









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