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Word Study · Strong's H505 · Hebrew

אֶלֶף

eleph

eh'-lef

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼeleph

hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand

Rendered in the KJV as

thousand.

  • 505
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 23 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 103
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 103

  • אֶ֖לֶף84
  • אֲלָפִ֖ים33
  • אֶ֔לֶף31
  • אֶ֛לֶף24
  • אָ֑לֶף21
  • אֲלָפִ֔ים21
  • אֲלָפִים֙20
  • אָֽלֶף׃19
  • אֶ֙לֶף֙18
  • אָֽלֶף׃ ס18
  • אֶ֤לֶף13
  • אֶ֥לֶף11

and 91 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 42

  • thousand197
  • thousands102
  • one thousand41
  • thousand [cubits]36
  • two thousand27
  • a thousand22
  • the thousands14
  • and one thousand11
  • [the] families of5
  • a thousand [cubits]3
  • for a thousand3
  • on thousands his3

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 35

  • noun · masculine or feminine singular136
  • number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular120
  • noun · masculine or feminine plural70
  • number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine plural47
  • number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine dual20
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)19
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine plural10
  • noun · masculine or feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)9
  • noun · masculine or feminine dual8
  • number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)7
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)6
  • conjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular4
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcbsa · 136
  • HAcbsa · 120
  • HNcbpa · 70
  • HAcbpa · 47
  • HAcbda · 20
  • HNcbsc · 19
  • HTd/Ncbpa · 10
  • HNcbpc · 9
  • HNcbda · 8
  • HAcbsc · 7
  • HR/Ncbpc · 6
  • HC/Acbsa · 4

The first 500 of 505, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Numbers carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis2 occurrences
Exodus11 occurrences
Numbers104 occurrences
Deuteronomy6 occurrences
Joshua12 occurrences
Judges35 occurrences
1 Samuel28 occurrences
2 Samuel19 occurrences
1 Kings21 occurrences
2 Kings11 occurrences
1 Chronicles81 occurrences
2 Chronicles62 occurrences
Ezra17 occurrences
Nehemiah17 occurrences
Job8 occurrences
Psalms7 occurrences
Ecclesiastes2 occurrences
Song of Solomon3 occurrences
Isaiah6 occurrences
Jeremiah3 occurrences
Ezekiel40 occurrences
Daniel3 occurrences
Micah2 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled אֶלֶף

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).