Strong's Hebrew · H505

אֶלֶף

ʼeleph · eh'-lef

Definitionhence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
Derivationprop, the same as H504 (אֶלֶף);
KJV usagethousand.
Occurrences504 in the KJV · 390 verses

אֶלֶף in Scripture

Genesis 20:16 And 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 24:60 And 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 12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children. Exodus 18:21 Moreover 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 18:25 And 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 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Exodus 32:28 And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. Exodus 34:7 Keeping 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 38:25 And 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 38:26 A 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 38:28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them. Exodus 38:29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
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