אֶלֶףʼEleph

proper name [of a location]: city in Benjamin (Joshua 18:28)

Pronunciation: eh'-lef · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H507

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.

Joshua 18:28 Zela, Haeleph, the Jebusite town (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen towns with their surrounding villages. This was the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.

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).