Lexical Summary eleph: a thousand Original Word: אֶלֶףTransliteration: eleph Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-lef) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a thousand Meaning: a thousand Strong's Concordance thousand Prop, the same as 'eleph; hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand -- thousand. see HEBREW 'eleph Brown-Driver-Briggs H505. eleph אֲלַ֑ף noun masculine 1, 000 (= Biblical Hebrew II. אֶ֫לֶף); — absolute ׳א (noun person precedes) Daniel 5:1; noun omitted, emphatic אַלְמָּא 5:1 the thousand (just mentioned); construct + plural absolute אֲלָפִ֯ים אֶ֫לֶף 7:10 a thousand thousands (< Qr אַלְפִין K§ 51, 2). |