אֶלֶף

«אֶלֶף» in the Tanakh dictionary: cattle — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 7 times · Key: 504 · BDB: אֶ֫לֶף

Glosses

your.cattle(s) (4); cattle(s) (3)

Meaning (OSHB)

cattle tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. cattle tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. ψ 8:8; only pl. cattle (Ph. אלף, Assyrian alpu, COTGloss.)—אֲלָפִים Pr 14:4 Is 30:24 used in tillage; subject to man ψ 8:8 (‖ צֹנֶה); their increase שְׁגַר אֲלָפֶיךָ a blessing Dt 7:13; 28:4, 18, 51 (‖ all עַשְׁתְּרֹת צֹאנֶ֑ךָ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «אֶלֶף» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Psalms 8:8

צֹנֶ֣ה וַאֲלָפִ֣ים כֻּלָּ֑ם וְ֝גַ֗ם בַּהֲמ֥וֹת שָׂדָֽי׃

Word for word: sheep and cattle(s) of.them all and also [the].animals of.[the].field

JPS 1917: Sheep and oxen, all of them, yea, and the beasts of the field;

Proverbs 14:4

בְּאֵ֣ין אֲ֭לָפִים אֵב֣וּס בָּ֑ר וְרָב־תְּ֝בוּא֗וֹת בְּכֹ֣חַ שֽׁוֹר׃

Word for word: when there.[are].not cattle(s) [the].feeding.trough [is].clean and abundance of.produce(s) [is].by.[the] strength of.an.ox

JPS 1917: Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

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