Definition

{hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand}

Etymology

(Aramaic) or אֶלֶף; (Aramaic), corresponding to H505 (אֶלֶף)

Where the KJV renders it

• thousand

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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