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אֶלֶף

ʼeleph

eh'-lef

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
    occurrencescanonical count
  • 500
    loaded (first 500)book by book, canonical order
  • 23
    books spannedamong loaded text
  • 103
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 loaded 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 · 44

  • thousand197
  • thousand<s>94
  • one thousand41
  • thousand [cubits]36
  • two thousand27
  • a thousand22
  • the thousands14
  • and one thousand11
  • thousands8
  • [the] families of5
  • <on> thousands his3
  • a thousand [cubits]3

Contextual glosses as tagged by STEP Bible — the sense the word carries at each spot, not a translation.

Parse codes · 35

  • HNcbsa136
  • HAcbsa120
  • HNcbpa70
  • HAcbpa47
  • HAcbda20
  • HNcbsc19
  • HTd/Ncbpa10
  • HNcbpc9
  • HNcbda8
  • HAcbsc7
  • HR/Ncbpc6
  • HC/Acbsa4

STEP Bible morphology codes, printed as given. The scheme is documented at STEPBible.org.

500 loaded · first 500 of 505

The ledger of occurrences

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 morphology: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English text: American Standard Version (1901, public domain).