Judges 15:15

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁵ Samson found a fresh jawbone of a donkey. He picked it up, and killed a thousand men with it.

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new jaw-bone. Heb. moist. slew.
Judges 3:31; Judges 4:21; Judges 7:16; Leviticus 26:8; Joshua 23:10; 1 Samuel 14:6; 1 Samuel 14:14; 1 Samuel 17:49; 1 Samuel 17:50
1 Corinthians 1:27; 1 Corinthians 1:28
a thousand.Some would render the words {aileph ish,} "a chief;" but it is {alluph,} and not {aileph,} which signifies a chief; besides which, the Hebrew idiom would, even in that case, require it to be {ish alluph,} "a man, a chief," and not {alluph ish,} "a chief, a man." Add to which, that every version renders it "a thousand men."