thousand
e.leph marks thousand-sized quantities and, in some plural phrases, organized groups described as thousands.
The term is predominantly a cardinal element in stated quantities, occurring with counts of people, military resources, valuables, and generations. Its plural construct form also occurs in phrases for tribal or military groupings described as “thousands,” especially alongside their leaders.
Senses in use
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A stated quantity in the thousands · dominant
The forms occur within explicit numerical totals: in 1 Chronicles 18:4 the APB renders counts of chariots, horsemen, and foot soldiers, while 1 Chronicles 22:14 renders prepared gold and silver in very large amounts. In 1 Chronicles 16:15 the clause concerns a command extending through “a thousand generations,” and 1 Chronicles 26:32 gives the number of family heads assigned to oversight.
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Groups called thousands · occasional
In 1 Chronicles 13:1, the plural form stands in the phrase rendered “commanders of the thousands and the hundreds.” The same grouping language appears with commanders bringing up the ark in 1 Chronicles 15:25, with army rulers in 1 Chronicles 26:26, and with tribal presentation “by your tribes and by your thousands” in 1 Samuel 10:19.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB presents the term through numerical expressions such as “one thousand,” “seven thousand,” and “a thousand generations,” as well as phrases such as “commanders of the thousands.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, those English expressions indicate the verse-level presentation rather than a fixed rendering for each token.