Strong H505H505Hאֶ֫לֶף
thousand: clan
One of the 2 senses of Strong H505
- Transliteration
- 'eleph
- Pronunciation
- eh'-lef
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
: clan
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
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
Strong H505H appears in 10 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- thousand8
- become1
- family1
First verses
- Numbers 1:16These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.
- Numbers 10:4And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
- Joshua 22:14And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
- Joshua 22:21Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel,
- Joshua 22:30And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
- Judges 6:15And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.
- 1 Samuel 10:19And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands.
- 1 Samuel 23:23See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
- Isaiah 60:22A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
- Micah 5:2But thou, Beth–lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.