Thousand
אֲלַ֑ףStrong’s H0506alaph (a-laph)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Alaph is the Aramaic word usually translated “thousand”, “thousand the” and “thousand of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.”
Meaning
- A thousand, 1000
How it's translated
- a thousand 1
- thousand the 1
- a thousand of 1
- thousands 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Aramaic dictionary
אֲלַ֑ף alaph · thousand
a thousand, 1000 Aramaic of e.leph (אֶ֫לֶף ": thousand" H0505)
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.
- Denoting the number of ten hundred.
- Proverbially, denoting a great number indefinitely.
All definitions and other forms of “thousand”
THOU'SAND, noun
The number of ten hundred.
- “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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.