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אֶלֶף

elef · cattle

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H504 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

elef (אֶלֶף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cattle”.

Oxen or cows.

How to say it

e·lef

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. The animals of the herd, which give milk and young and pull the plow.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • herds ×3
  • cattle ×2
  • oxen ×2
  • thousand ×1

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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Deuteronomy 7:13

    He will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain, your new wine, and your oil, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock, on the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.

  • Deuteronomy 28:4

    Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your livestock, the offspring of your herds and the young of your flock.

  • Deuteronomy 28:18

    Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the offspring of your herds and the young of your flock.

  • Deuteronomy 28:51

    And it will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed; it will not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the offspring of your herds or the young of your flock, until it has made you perish.

  • Judges 6:15

    He said to him, “Pardon, Adonai, with what shall I save Israel? Look, my thousand is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in the house of my father.”

  • Psalms 8:7

    sheep and cattle, all of them, and also the beasts of the field,

  • Proverbs 14:4

    Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant harvests come by the strength of the ox.

  • Isaiah 30:24

    And the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.