Judges 20:17:8Judg.20.17.W8TAB
אֶ֛לֶף
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
ar-BA me-OT E-lef
- clause
ve-ISH yis-ra-EL hit-pa-ke-DU le-VAD mi-bin-ya-MIN ar-BA me-OT E-lef ISH sho-LEF KHA-rev
- sentence
ve-ISH yis-ra-EL hit-pa-ke-DU le-VAD mi-bin-ya-MIN ar-BA me-OT E-lef ISH sho-LEF KHA-rev kal-ZE ISH mil-kha-MA
Exegesis
The Hebrew multiplicative sequence arba me’ot elef {אַרְבַּע מֵא֥וֹת אֶלֶף | ʾăr-bāʿ mē-ʾōṯ ʾe-lep̄} conveys 400,000, with numerical order reflecting hierarchical weighting.
In context — Judges 20:17
And the men of Israel assembled apart from Benjamin, four hundred thousand men drawing swords; all these were men of war .
About this coordinate
Judges 20:17:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Judges 20:17, so the Hebrew word אֶ֛לֶף (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 Judg.20.17.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Judg.20.17.W8.S1) and character.