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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:

Ezra 2:37: "The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two."
Ezra 2:38: "The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty"
Ezra 2:39: "The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen."
Ezra 2:64: "congregation together was forty and two thousand hundred and threescore,"
Ezra 2:65: "their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty"
Ezra 2:67: "and five; six thousand seven hundred and twenty."
Ezra 2:69: "unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five"
Ezra 2:69: "drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred"
Ezra 8:27: "Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams; vessels of fine"
Nehemiah 3:13: "the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung"
Nehemiah 7:8: "The children of Parosh, two thousand a hundred seventy"
Nehemiah 7:11: "of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen."
Nehemiah 7:12: "The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty"
Nehemiah 7:17: "The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and two."
Nehemiah 7:19: "The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven."
Nehemiah 7:34: "The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred and four."
Nehemiah 7:38: "The children of Senaah, three thousand nine and thirty."
Nehemiah 7:40: "The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two."
Nehemiah 7:41: "The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty"
Nehemiah 7:42: "The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen."
Nehemiah 7:66: "congregation together was forty and two thousand hundred and threescore,"
Nehemiah 7:67: "their menservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty"
Nehemiah 7:69: "thirty and five: thousand seven hundred and twenty asses."
Nehemiah 7:70: "unto the work. gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold, fifty"
Nehemiah 7:71: "of the work drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound"
Nehemiah 7:72: "drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven"
Esther 3:9: "let it be written that they may be destroyed: ten thousand talents of silver to"
Esther 9:16: "and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not"
Job 1:3: "His substance also was seven thousand sheep, thousand camels,"
Job 1:3: "thousand sheep, thousand camels, and five hundred yoke"
Job 9:3: "him one of a thousand."
Job 33:23: "him, an interpreter, among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness:"
Job 42:12: "for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six"
Job 42:12: "fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand"
Job 42:12: "thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen,"
Job 42:12: "thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses."
Psalms 50:10: "beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills."
Psalms 60:1: "in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered"
Psalms 68:17: "The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy"
Psalms 84:10: "a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. than a thousand. be a doorkeeper in the house"
Psalms 90:4: "For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday it is past,"
Psalms 91:7: " A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand;"
Psalms 105:8: "forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations."
Psalms 119:72: "The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands unto me than thousands of gold"
Ecclesiastes 6:6: "Yea, though he live a thousand years twice no good:"
Ecclesiastes 7:28: "one man among a thousand among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all"
Song of Solomon 4:4: "for an armory, there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men."
Song of Solomon 8:11: "every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver."
Song of Solomon 8:12: "which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, the fruit thereof two hundred."
Isaiah 7:23: "where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be"









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