2 Chronicles 13:17:112 Chr.13.17.W11TAB
אֶ֖לֶף
elef
“thousand”
- Transliteration
- E-lef
- Extended
- EH-lehf
- IPA
- /ˈʔɛ.lɛf/
Meaning by language
- English
- thousand
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Pe Sofit | final form of Pe — at word end |
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Word in context
- word
E-lef
- phraseyour reading level
kha-MESH-me-OT E-lef
- clause
mak-KA rab-BA va-yip-LU kha-la-LIM mi-yis-ra-EL kha-MESH-me-OT E-lef ISH ba-KHUR
- sentence
va-yik-KU va-HEM a-vi-YA ve-am-MO mak-KA rab-BA va-yip-LU kha-la-LIM mi-yis-ra-EL kha-MESH-me-OT E-lef ISH ba-KHUR
Exegesis
The large figure is expressed with a Hebrew counting construction, chamesh-meot elef {חֲמֵשׁ־מֵא֥וֹת אֶ֛לֶף | ḥămēš-mēʾōṯ ʾelep̄} (‘five hundred thousand’), followed by ish bahurim {אִ֖ישׁ בָּחוּרִֽים | ʾîš bāḥûrîm}, a collective-plus-descriptor that presents the dead as able-bodied young men, underscoring the scale and severity of Israel’s defeat.
Root and etymology
ʾ-l-paleph–lamed–pe
“thousand”
In context — 2 Chronicles 13:17
And Abijah and his people struck them with a great blow , and 500,000 young men from Israel fell slain.
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 13:17:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of 2 Chronicles 13:17, so the Hebrew word אֶ֖לֶף (elef) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 2 Chr.13.17.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.13.17.W11.S1) and character.