Hebrew noun (masculine) · H504
אֶלֶף
elepheh'-lef
cattle
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼeleph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H504is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H504
a family; also (from the sense of yoking or taming) an ox or cow
The King James renders it: family, kine, oxen.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
eleph is rendered "cattle". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 7:13He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
Deuteronomy 7:13אֲלָפֶ֙יךָ֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's seven uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- cattles your4
- and cattles1
- and the cattles1
- cattles1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֶלֶף | eleph | thousand | Uses505 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֲלָפֶ֖יךָ3
- אֲלָפֶ֙יךָ֙1
- אֲ֭לָפִים1
- וַאֲלָפִ֣ים1
- וְהָאֲלָפִ֣ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular4HNcmpc/Sp2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Td/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
Deuteronomy
four uses
He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land—your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks—in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
- אֲלָפֶ֙יךָ֙ʾalafeikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: cattles your
The fruit of your womb will be blessed, as well as the produce of your land and the offspring of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.
- אֲלָפֶ֖יךָʾalafeikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: cattles your
The fruit of your womb will be cursed, as well as the produce of your land, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
- אֲלָפֶ֖יךָʾalafeikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: cattles your
They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish.
- אֲלָפֶ֖יךָʾalafeikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: cattles your
Psalms
one use
all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field,
- וַאֲלָפִ֣יםvaalafimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and cattles
Proverbs
one use
Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but an abundant harvest comes through the strength of the ox.
- אֲ֭לָפִיםʾalafimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cattles
Isaiah
one use
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
- וְהָאֲלָפִ֣יםvehaalafimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the cattles
The letters
Gematria 111· 831 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.