אֶ֫לֶף
e.leph
1. a thousand
a. as numeral
2. a thousand, company
a. as a company of men under one leader, troops
1. a thousand
a. as numeral
2. a thousand, company
a. as a company of men under one leader, troops
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 391 verses
- Joshua 3:4 כְּאַלְפַּ֥יִם
But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.”
- Joshua 4:13 אֶ֖לֶף
About 40,000 troops armed for battle crossed over before the LORD into the plains of Jericho.
- Joshua 7:3 כְּאַלְפַּ֣יִםאֲלָפִ֣ים
On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”
- Joshua 7:4 אֲלָפִ֖ים
So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.
- Joshua 8:3 אֶ֤לֶף
So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night
- Joshua 8:12 אֲלָפִ֖ים
Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
- Joshua 8:25 אָ֑לֶף
A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.
- Joshua 22:14 לְאַלְפֵ֥י
With him they sent ten chiefs—one family leader from each tribe of Israel, each the head of a family among the clans of Israel.
- Joshua 22:21 אַלְפֵ֥י
Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the clans of Israel:
- Joshua 22:30 אַלְפֵ֤י
When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation—the heads of Israel’s clans who were with him—heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were satisfied.
- Joshua 23:10 אָ֑לֶף
One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.
- Judges 1:4 אֲלָפִ֖ים
When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.
- Judges 3:29 אֲלָפִים֙
At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all robust and valiant men. Not one of them escaped.
- Judges 4:6 אֲלָפִים֙
She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.
- Judges 4:10 אַלְפֵ֖י
where he summoned Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him.
- Judges 4:14 אֲלָפִ֛ים
Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
- Judges 5:8 אֶ֖לֶף
When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
- Judges 6:15 אַלְפִּי֙
“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
- Judges 7:3 אֶ֔לֶףאֲלָפִ֖ים
Now, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people: ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of them turned back, but ten thousand remained.
- Judges 8:10 אֶ֔לֶףאֶ֛לֶף
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had already fallen.
- Judges 8:26 אֶ֥לֶף
The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.
- Judges 9:49 כְּאֶ֖לֶף
So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
- Judges 12:6 אָֽלֶף׃
they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.
- Judges 15:11 אֲלָפִ֨ים
In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
- Judges 15:15 אֶ֥לֶף
He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.
- Judges 15:16 אֶ֥לֶף
Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”
- Judges 16:5 אֶ֥לֶף
The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
- Judges 16:27 אֲלָפִים֙
Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.
- Judges 17:2 אֶלֶף֩
said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”
- Judges 17:3 אֶֽלֶף־
And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”
- Judges 20:2 אֶ֛לֶף
The leaders of all the people and all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s people: 400,000 men on foot, armed with swords.
- Judges 20:10 לָאֶ֙לֶף֙וְאֶ֣לֶף
We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”
- Judges 20:15 אֶ֛לֶף
On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.
- Judges 20:17 אֶ֛לֶף
The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.
- Judges 20:21 אֶ֛לֶף
And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
- Judges 20:25 אֶ֛לֶף
That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
- Judges 20:34 אֲלָפִ֨ים
Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.
- Judges 20:35 אֶ֛לֶף
The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
- Judges 20:44 אֶ֖לֶף
And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.
- Judges 20:45 אֲלָפִ֖יםאַלְפַּ֥יִם
Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
- Judges 20:46 אֶ֥לֶף
That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
- Judges 21:10 אֶ֛לֶף
So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.
- 1 Samuel 4:2 אֲלָפִ֖ים
The Philistines arrayed themselves against Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about four thousand men on the battlefield.
- 1 Samuel 4:10 אֶ֖לֶף
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.
- 1 Samuel 6:19 אֶ֖לֶף
But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.
- 1 Samuel 8:12 אֲלָפִ֖ים
He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.
- 1 Samuel 10:19 וּלְאַלְפֵיכֶֽם׃
But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”
- 1 Samuel 11:8 אֶ֔לֶףאָֽלֶף׃
And when Saul numbered them at Bezek, there were 300,000 Israelites and 30,000 men of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 13:2 אֲלָפִים֮אַלְפַּ֗יִםוְאֶ֗לֶף
He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.
- 1 Samuel 13:5 אֶ֤לֶףאֲלָפִים֙
Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.