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Thousand

אֶ֫לֶףStrong’s H0505

eleph (e-leph)

Appears in 391 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Eleph is the Hebrew word usually translated “thousand”, “one thousand” and “two thousand”. It appears in 391 verses of the Old Testament.

“And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.”
Daniel 8:14 KJV
Meaning
  1. A thousandas numeral
  2. A thousand, companyas a company of men under one leader, troops
How it's translated
  • thousand 333
  • one thousand 42
  • two thousand 28
  • a thousand 27
  • the thousands 14
  • and one thousand 11
  • thousands 8
  • families of 5

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 82
  • 1 Chronicles 60
  • 2 Chronicles 38
  • Judges 31
  • 1 Samuel 22
  • Ezekiel 21

25 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 391 verses, by book
Genesis 2
20:1624:60
Esther 2
3:99:16
Ecclesiastes 2
6:67:28
Song of Solomon 3
4:48:118:12
Jeremiah 3
32:1852:2852:30
Amos 1
5:3
Micah 2
5:26:7
Hebrew dictionary

אֶ֫לֶף eleph · thousand

: thousand 1) a thousand 1a) as numeral 2) a thousand, company 2a) as a company of men under one leader, troops

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “thousand” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

THOU'SAND, adjective

s as z.

  1. Denoting the number of ten hundred.
  2. Proverbially, denoting a great number indefinitely.
All definitions and other forms of “thousand”

    THOU'SAND, noun

    The number of ten hundred.

    1. “A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand” Psalms 91:7

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.