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 · 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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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.

BSB rendering counts
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

KJV rendering counts
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

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1 Samuel 15:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So Saul summoned the troops and numbered them at Telaim—200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.
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1 Samuel 17:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels,
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1 Samuel 17:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Take also these ten portions of cheese to the commander of their unit. Check on the welfare of your brothers and bring back an assurance from them.
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1 Samuel 18:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”
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1 Samuel 18:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”
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1 Samuel 18:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore Saul sent David away and gave him command of a thousand men. David led the troops out to battle and back,
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1 Samuel 21:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
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Source alternate reference: 21.12
1 Samuel 22:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?
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1 Samuel 23:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”
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1 Samuel 24:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
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Source alternate reference: 24.3
1 Samuel 25:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
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1 Samuel 26:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.
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1 Samuel 29:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As the Philistine leaders marched out with their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men marched behind them with Achish.
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1 Samuel 29:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Is this not the David about whom they sing in their dances: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
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2 Samuel 6:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David again assembled the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand in all.
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2 Samuel 8:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
David captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.
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2 Samuel 8:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand of their men.
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2 Samuel 8:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
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2 Samuel 10:6 · BSB · 3 occurrences
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.
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2 Samuel 10:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand foot soldiers. He also struck down Shobach the commander of their army, who died there.
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2 Samuel 17:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.
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2 Samuel 18:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David reviewed his troops and appointed over them commanders of thousands and of hundreds.
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2 Samuel 18:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the people pleaded, “You must not go out! For if we have to flee, they will not care about us. Even if half of us die, they will not care. But you are worth ten thousand of us. It is better now if you support us from the city.”
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2 Samuel 18:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
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2 Samuel 18:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
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2 Samuel 18:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’
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2 Samuel 19:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
along with a thousand men of Benjamin, as well as Ziba the steward of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed down to the Jordan before the king
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Source alternate reference: 19.18
2 Samuel 24:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.
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2 Samuel 24:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
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1 Kings 3:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.
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1 Kings 4:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.
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Source alternate reference: 5.6
1 Kings 4:32 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.
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Source alternate reference: 5.12
1 Kings 5:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.
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Source alternate reference: 5.25
1 Kings 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.
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Source alternate reference: 5.27
1 Kings 5:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He sent them to Lebanon in monthly shifts of 10,000 men, so that they would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.
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Source alternate reference: 5.28
1 Kings 5:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains,
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Source alternate reference: 5.29
1 Kings 5:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.
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Source alternate reference: 5.30
1 Kings 7:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
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1 Kings 8:63 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the Israelites dedicated the house of the LORD.
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1 Kings 10:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
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1 Kings 12:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.
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1 Kings 19:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Nevertheless, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel—all whose knees have not bowed to Baal and whose mouths have not kissed him.”
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1 Kings 20:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Ahab assembled the young officers of the district governors, and there were 232 men. And after them, he assembled the rest of the Israelite troops, 7,000 in all.
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1 Kings 20:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For seven days the armies camped opposite each other, and on the seventh day the battle ensued, and the Israelites struck down the Arameans—a hundred thousand foot soldiers in one day.
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1 Kings 20:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.
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2 Kings 3:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.
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2 Kings 5:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go now,” said the king of Aram, “and I will send you with a letter to the king of Israel.” So Naaman departed, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of clothing.
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2 Kings 13:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.
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2 Kings 14:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Amaziah struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. He took Sela in battle and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this very day.
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2 Kings 15:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.
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