Strong H5052 sensesאֶ֫לֶף
thousand · thousand: clan
- Transliteration
- 'eleph
- Pronunciation
- eh'-lef
The 2 senses of Strong H505
The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H505 appears in 390 verses of the KJV, all senses together.
General definition
Properly the same as H504; hence (an ox´ s head being the first letter of the {alphabet} and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand: - thousand.
In the Bible
Translated in the KJV by
- thousand380
- be6
- eleven3
- have2
- him2
- thee2
- also1
- become1
- family1
- it1
- make1
- thereof1
First verses
- 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.
- Exodus 38:28And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
- Exodus 38:29And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
- Numbers 1:16These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
- Numbers 1:21Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
- Numbers 1:23Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
- Numbers 1:25Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad, were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
- Numbers 1:27Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
- Numbers 1:29Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.
- Numbers 1:31Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
- Numbers 1:33Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.