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אֶלֶף
ʼeleph · Hebrew · Strong's H505 · 505 occurrences
The KJV renders 4 different Hebrew and Greek words as “thousand”
What it means
hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
prop, the same as H504 (אֶלֶף);
How the KJV renders it
thousand
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
Where it appears
505 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 5:18 · HAcbsa
The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, able to shoot with bow, and skillful in war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred sixty that were able to go out to war.
1 Chronicles 5:21 · HAcbpa
They took away their livestock: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.
1 Chronicles 7:2 · HAcbsa
The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, of Tola; mighty men of valor in their generations. Their number in the days of David was twenty-two thousand six hundred.
1 Chronicles 7:4 · HAcbsa
With them, by their generations, after their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army for war, thirty-six thousand; for they had many wives and sons.
1 Chronicles 7:5 · HAcbsa
Their brothers among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, listed in all by genealogy, were eighty-seven thousand.
1 Chronicles 7:7 · HAcbsa
The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were listed by genealogy twenty-two thousand thirty-four.
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