Strong’s H506 · Aramaic
אֲלַף
ʼălaph · al-af'
Origin (Aramaic) or אֶלֶף; (Aramaic), corresponding to אֶלֶף (H505)
Meaning {hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand}
In the King James Version thousand.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Daniel 5:1Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
- Daniel 7:10A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.