2 Chronicles 17:18:52 Chr.17.18.W5TAB
אֶ֖לֶף
elef
“thousand”
- Transliteration
- E-lef
- Extended
- EH-lehf
- IPA
- /ˈʔɛlɛf/
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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The word
Word in context
- word
E-lef
- phraseyour reading level
me-A-U-sh(e)-mo-NIM E-lef
- clause
ve-IM-MO me-A-U-sh(e)-mo-NIM E-lef kha-lu-TSEI tsa-VA
- sentence
ve-AL-YA-DO ye-ho-za-VAD ve-IM-MO me-A-U-sh(e)-mo-NIM E-lef kha-lu-TSEI tsa-VA
Exegesis
The number phrase meah-u-shmonim elef {מֵאָה־וּשְׁמוֹנִים אֶלֶף | mē-ʾāh·ū-šə-mō-nîm ʾe-lep̄} ‘one hundred and eighty thousand’ follows standard Hebrew scaling, where the higher unit elef carries the total.
Root and etymology
ʾ-l-paleph–lamed–pe
“thousand”
In context — 2 Chronicles 17:18
And at his hand was Jehozabad, and with him were 180,000 armed men .
About this coordinate
2 Chronicles 17:18:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of 2 Chronicles 17:18, 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.17.18.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Chr.17.18.W5.S1) and character.