# אֲלַף (alaf)

Israeli respelling: a-laf. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H506. 2 Old Testament occurrences.

{hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand}

King James renderings: thousand.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/alaf-h506

## Occurrences

- [Daniel 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/5/1) — Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
- [Daniel 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/7/10) — A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood bef…