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Gematria of Thousand

2 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “thousand” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 509 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
2
Occurrences
509
Distinct values
1

The 2 Hebrew words rendered “thousand”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

אֶלֶףʼeleph×505 in the TanakhH505

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

Standard 111 →Gadol 831Katan 12Siduri (ordinal) 30Atbash 426Perati 7,301Milui 266

First appearance ·Genesis 20:16בראשית כ:טזאֶלֶף

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אֲלַףʼălaph×4 in the TanakhH506

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

Standard 111 →Gadol 831Katan 12Siduri (ordinal) 30Atbash 426Perati 7,301Milui 266

First appearance ·Daniel 5:1דניאל ה:אאֲלַף

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What is the gematria of thousand?

The Hebrew word for “thousand” in the Tanakh, אלף, ʼeleph, has a gematria of 111 in the standard method.

How do you say thousand in Hebrew?

אלף (ʼeleph), which stands 509 times in the Tanakh.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.