STRONGS NUMBER H504


Word Summary
eleph: cattle
Original Word: אֶלֶף
Transliteration: eleph
Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-lef)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: cattle
Meaning: a family, an ox, cow
Strong's Concordance
family, kine, oxen

From 'alph; a family; also (from the sense of yoking or taming) an ox or cow -- family, kine, oxen.

see HEBREW 'alph

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H504. eleph

I. [אלֶף ֶ֫‎] noun masculinePsalm 8:8; only plural cattle (Phoenician אלף‎, Assyrian alpu, COTGloss) — אֲלָפִיםProverbs 14:4; Isaiah 30:24 used in tillage; subject to man Psalm 8:8 ("" צֹנֶה‎); their increase אֲלָפֶיךָ שְׁגַר‎ a blessing Deuteronomy 7:13; 28:4, 18, 51 ("" all צאֹנֶ֑ךָ עַשְׁתִּרֹת‎).