Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to produce thousands
Usage: v 1) (CLBL) to make thousand-fold, bring forth thousands 2) (TWOT) (Hiphil) producing thousands n m 3)(BDB) chief, chiliarch
Alaph means “bring forth thousands” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G503 — antophthalmeo (“bear up into”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H503 אָלַף (alaph) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. alaph (aw-laf') n-m. 1. causative, to make a thousandfold [denominative from H505] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include bring. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
alaph (aw-laf') n-m. 1. causative, to make a thousandfold [denominative from H505] KJV: bring forth thousands. Root(s): H505
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to produce thousands
Usage: v 1) (CLBL) to make thousand-fold, bring forth thousands 2) (TWOT) (Hiphil) producing thousands n m 3)(BDB) chief, chiliarch
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render alaph, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H503.
That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H503, grouped by book.
Alaph (Strong's H503) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "bring forth thousands". alaph (aw-laf') n-m. 1. causative, to make a thousandfold [denominative from H505]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H503 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H503 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bring. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.