אַלּוּף
ʼallûwph · al-loof'
familiar; a friend, also gentle; hence, a bullock (as being tame; applied, although masculine, to a cow); and so, a chieftain (as notable, like neat cattle)
Lexicon
Derivation: or (shortened) אַלֻּף; from H502 (אָלַף);
familiar; a friend, also gentle; hence, a bullock (as being tame; applied, although masculine, to a cow); and so, a chieftain (as notable, like neat cattle)
- familiar
- a friend, also gentle
- hence, a bullock (as being tame
- applied, although masculine, to a cow)
- and so, a chieftain (as notable, like neat cattle)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: captain, duke, (chief) friend, governor, guide, ox.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › authority, the one who leads › to fasten and establish › to speak, the word
Strength, the leader of authority, the one who leads that works to fasten and establish that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אַלּוּף above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
69 occurrences · 69 OT · 0 NT · 21 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- duke41 · 59%
- these are the dukes6 · 9%
- these were dukes1 · 1%
- and duke1 · 1%
- these were the dukes1 · 1%
- and these are their dukes1 · 1%
- among their dukes1 · 1%
- of the dukes1 · 1%
- these be the dukes1 · 1%
- the dukes1 · 1%
- also. and the dukes1 · 1%
- were; duke1 · 1%
- my guide1 · 1%
- that our oxen1 · 1%
- the guide1 · 1%
- chief friends1 · 1%
- very friends1 · 1%
- thou art the guide1 · 1%
- or an ox1 · 1%
- them to be captains1 · 1%
- in a guide1 · 1%
- and he shall be as a governor1 · 1%
- and the governors1 · 1%
- the governors1 · 1%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.