Strong's Concordance H505

Original Word: אֶלֶף
Transliteration: ʼeleph
Phonetic Spelling: eh'-lef
prop, the same as H504; hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand; thousand.

Usages throughout the bible

1 Samuel 17:5 - And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand H505 shekels of brass.

1 Samuel 17:18 - And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, H505 and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

1 Samuel 18:7 - And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, H505 and David his ten thousands.

1 Samuel 18:8 - And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: H505 and what can he have more but the kingdom?

1 Samuel 18:13 - Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; H505 and he went out and came in before the people.

1 Samuel 21:11 - And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, H505 and David his ten thousands?

1 Samuel 22:7 - Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, H505 and captains of hundreds;

1 Samuel 23:23 - See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands H505 of Judah.

1 Samuel 24:2 - Then Saul took three thousand H505 chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

1 Samuel 25:2 - And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand H505 sheep, and a thousand H505 goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

1 Samuel 26:2 - Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand H505 chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

1 Samuel 29:2 - And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: H505 but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.

1 Samuel 29:5 - Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, H505 and David his ten thousands?

2 Samuel 6:1 - Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. H505

2 Samuel 8:4 - And David took from him a thousand H505 chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand H505 footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.

2 Samuel 8:5 - And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand H505 men.

2 Samuel 8:13 - And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand H505 men.

2 Samuel 10:6 - And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand H505 footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand H505 men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand H505 men.

2 Samuel 10:18 - And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand H505 horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.

2 Samuel 17:1 - Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand H505 men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

2 Samuel 18:1 - And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands H505 and captains of hundreds over them.

2 Samuel 18:3 - But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand H505 of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.

2 Samuel 18:4 - And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands. H505

2 Samuel 18:7 - Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand H505 men.

2 Samuel 18:12 - And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand H505 shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:17 - And there were a thousand H505 men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.

2 Samuel 24:9 - And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand H505 valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand H505 men.

2 Samuel 24:15 - So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand H505 men.

1 Kings 3:4 - And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand H505 burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

1 Kings 4:26 - And Solomon had forty thousand H505 stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand H505 horsemen.

1 Kings 4:32 - And he spake three thousand H505 proverbs: and his songs were a thousand H505 and five.

1 Kings 5:11 - And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand H505 measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

1 Kings 5:13 - And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand H505 men.

1 Kings 5:14 - And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand H505 a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.

1 Kings 5:15 - And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand H505 that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand H505 hewers in the mountains;

1 Kings 5:16 - Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work, three thousand H505 and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

1 Kings 7:26 - And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand H505 baths.

1 Kings 8:63 - And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand H505 oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand H505 sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.

1 Kings 10:26 - And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand H505 and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand H505 horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.

1 Kings 12:21 - And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand H505 chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

1 Kings 19:18 - Yet I have left me seven thousand H505 in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

1 Kings 20:15 - Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand. H505

1 Kings 20:29 - And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand H505 footmen in one day.

1 Kings 20:30 - But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand H505 of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

2 Kings 3:4 - And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand H505 lambs, and an hundred thousand H505 rams, with the wool.

2 Kings 5:5 - And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand H505 pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

2 Kings 13:7 - Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand H505 footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

2 Kings 14:7 - He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, H505 and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.

2 Kings 15:19 - And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand H505 talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

2 Kings 18:23 - Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand H505 horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.