Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H505
אֶ֫לֶף
e.leph · “thousand”
Used 507 times across 25 books
Definition
: thousand
1) a thousand
1a) as numeral
2) a thousand, company
2a) as a company of men under one leader, troops
1) a thousand
1a) as numeral
2) a thousand, company
2a) as a company of men under one leader, troops
Where it appears
Genesis2
Exodus11
Numbers104
Deuteronomy6
Joshua12
Judges34
1 Samuel30
2 Samuel19
1 Kings21
2 Kings11
1 Chronicles81
2 Chronicles62
Ezra19
Nehemiah17
Esther2
Job8
Psalms8
Ecclesiastes2
Song of Solomon3
Isaiah6
Jeremiah3
Ezekiel40
Daniel3
Amos1
Micah2
In the text
Genesis 20:16And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.Genesis 24:60And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.Exodus 12:37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.Exodus 18:21Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:Exodus 18:25And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.Exodus 20:6And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.Exodus 32:28And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.Exodus 34:7Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.Exodus 38:25And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:Exodus 38:26A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
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