TBESH · H0505G
אֶ֫לֶף · e.leph · thousand
: thousand 1) a thousand 1a) as numeral 2) a thousand, company 2a) as a company of men under one leader, troops
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e.leph H505
אֶ֫לֶף (e.leph) means “thousand” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
אֶ֫לֶף Hebrew · H505 506 tagged occurrences in 391 verses
Pronunciation guide: eh'-lef Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H0505H
אֶ֫לֶף · e.leph · thousand: clan
: clan 1) a thousand 1a) as numeral 2) a thousand, company 2a) as a company of men under one leader, troops
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
prop, the same as H504 (אֶלֶף); hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
KJV glosses: thousand.
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How translators render H505
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| thousand | 59 |
| a thousand | 24 |
| of thousands | 21 |
| and | 7 |
| two thousand | 7 |
| and a thousand | 4 |
| for a thousand | 4 |
| a thousand cubits | 3 |
| his thousands | 3 |
| of the clans | 3 |
| thousand men | 3 |
| thousands | 3 |
| to a thousand generations | 3 |
| a thousand shekels | 2 |
| among the clans | 2 |
| the eleven | 2 |
| totaled | 2 |
| a thousand chariots | 1 |
| a thousand men | 1 |
| a thousand pieces | 1 |
| a thousand strong | 1 |
| a thousand to flight | 1 |
| about a thousand | 1 |
| along with a thousand | 1 |
| among a thousand | 1 |
| and by thousands | 1 |
| and clans | 1 |
| and repaired a thousand | 1 |
| and thousands | 1 |
| and two thousand | 1 |
| are the thousands | 1 |
| clans | 1 |
| commanders | 1 |
| eleven hundred shekels | 1 |
| more | 1 |
| my clan | 1 |
| of a thousand men | 1 |
| of about two thousand | 1 |
| of men | 1 |
| of the | 1 |
| of their unit | 1 |
| on a thousand | 1 |
| out of every thousand | 1 |
| so a thousand men | 1 |
| than a thousand elsewhere | 1 |
| than thousands of pieces | 1 |
| the clans | 1 |
| the thousand | 1 |
| the thousand shekels | 1 |
| there were | 1 |
| there will be | 1 |
| though a thousand | 1 |
| thousand cors | 1 |
| thousand of us | 1 |
| thousand shekels | 1 |
| thousand will flee | 1 |
| to thousands | 1 |
| two | 1 |
| valued at | 1 |
| was | 1 |
| was two thousand | 1 |
| were over the units | 1 |
| with | 1 |
| with a thousand | 1 |
| with the shekels | 1 |
| with thousands | 1 |
| worth a thousand shekels | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| thousand | 335 |
| a thousand | 51 |
| two thousand | 17 |
| of thousands | 14 |
| and a thousand | 8 |
| over thousands | 7 |
| and two thousand | 5 |
| of a thousand | 4 |
| of the thousands | 4 |
| his thousands | 3 |
| thousands | 3 |
| to a thousand | 3 |
| unto thousands | 3 |
| among a thousand | 2 |
| among the thousands | 2 |
| and by thousands | 2 |
| and he had a thousand | 2 |
| from him a thousand | 2 |
| over a thousand | 2 |
| the eleven hundred | 2 |
| thee two thousand | 2 |
| were a thousand | 2 |
| were two thousand | 2 |
| also about a thousand | 1 |
| and by your thousands | 1 |
| and of the thousand | 1 |
| and one thousand | 1 |
| at a thousand | 1 |
| behold my family | 1 |
| between you and it about two thousand | 1 |
| for a thousand | 1 |
| for thousands | 1 |
| him out throughout all the thousands | 1 |
| make you a thousand | 1 |
| of us eleven hundred | 1 |
| out of the thousands | 1 |
| over the thousands | 1 |
| shall be where there were a thousand | 1 |
| shall become a thousand | 1 |
| than a thousand | 1 |
| the thousands | 1 |
| thereof and a thousand | 1 |
| to the thousand | 1 |
| unto me than thousands | 1 |
| unto me unto two thousand | 1 |
| upon a thousand | 1 |
| was a thousand | 1 |
| with thousands | 1 |
| with twelve hundred | 1 |
Verses containing H505
Page 3 of 8. 391 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Joshua 3:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.”
Read word by word - Joshua 4:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
About 40,000 troops armed for battle crossed over before the LORD into the plains of Jericho.
Read word by word - Joshua 7:3
· BSB · 2 occurrences
On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”
Read word by word - Joshua 7:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night
Read word by word - Joshua 8:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
Read word by word - Joshua 8:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.
Read word by word - Joshua 22:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
With him they sent ten chiefs—one family leader from each tribe of Israel, each the head of a family among the clans of Israel.
Read word by word - Joshua 22:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the clans of Israel:
Read word by word - Joshua 22:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation—the heads of Israel’s clans who were with him—heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were satisfied.
Read word by word - Joshua 23:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.
Read word by word - Judges 1:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.
Read word by word - Judges 3:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all robust and valiant men. Not one of them escaped.
Read word by word - Judges 4:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.
Read word by word - Judges 4:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
where he summoned Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him.
Read word by word - Judges 4:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
Read word by word - Judges 5:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
Read word by word - Judges 6:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
Read word by word - Judges 7:3
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Now, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the men: ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of them turned back, but ten thousand remained.
Read word by word - Judges 8:10
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.
Read word by word - Judges 8:26
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.
Read word by word - Judges 9:49
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
Read word by word - Judges 12:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.
Read word by word - Judges 15:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
Read word by word - Judges 15:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.
Read word by word - Judges 15:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”
Read word by word - Judges 16:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
Read word by word - Judges 16:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.
Read word by word - Judges 17:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”
Read word by word - Judges 17:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”
Read word by word - Judges 20:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The leaders of all the people and all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: 400,000 men on foot, armed with swords.
Read word by word - Judges 20:10
· BSB · 2 occurrences
We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”
Read word by word - Judges 20:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.
Read word by word - Judges 20:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.
Read word by word - Judges 20:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
Read word by word - Judges 20:25
· BSB · 1 occurrence
That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
Read word by word - Judges 20:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.
Read word by word - Judges 20:35
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
Read word by word - Judges 20:44
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.
Read word by word - Judges 20:45
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
Read word by word - Judges 20:46
· BSB · 1 occurrence
That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
Read word by word - Judges 21:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 4:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The Philistines arrayed themselves against Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about four thousand men on the battlefield.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 4:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 6:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 8:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 10:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 11:8
· BSB · 2 occurrences
And when Saul numbered them at Bezek, there were 300,000 Israelites and 30,000 men of Judah.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 13:2
· BSB · 3 occurrences
He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 13:5
· BSB · 2 occurrences
Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.
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