Original Language Studio
2 Chronicles 12:3
“With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H505 · Hebrew
- Definition
- hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
- Derivation
- prop, the same as H504 (אֶלֶף);
- KJV renderings
- thousand.
- Grammar
- בְּ — preposition
- אֶ֤לֶף — cardinal number, both genders, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 507 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 20:16Genesis 24:60Exodus 12:37Exodus 18:21Exodus 18:25
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אֶלֶף here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.