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אֲלַף

alaph

al-af'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼălaph

{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.

  • 4
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 1 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 4
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 4 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 4

  • אֲלַ֑ף1
  • אֶ֤לֶף1
  • אַלְפָּ֖א1
  • אַלְפִין֙1

How it is rendered · 4

  • a thousand1
  • a thousand of1
  • thousand the1
  • thousands1

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

How it parses · 4

  • number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular1
  • number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
  • number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1
  • number (cardinal) · masculine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • AAcbsa · 1
  • AAcbsc · 1
  • AAcbsd/Ta · 1
  • AAcmpa · 1

All 4, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

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).