אָלַףʼâlaph

causative, to make athousandfold

Pronunciation: aw-laf' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H503

Meanings

a thousand.

1. numeral

c. additional no. (Exodus 12:37; Numbers 31:52; Judges 20:35)

2. a thousand, a company of 1000 men, as united under one superior, or leader (Exodus 18:21; Exodus 18:25; Numbers 31:14)

Hiph`il: producing thousands (Psalms 144:13)

Same root

אֶלֶףʼeleph · H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

Psalms 144:13 May our barns be filled with crops of every kind. May the flocks in our fields multiply by the thousands, even tens of thousands,

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).