Bible word study

Alluwph (Strong’s H441): Meaning in the Bible

Alluwph (אַלּוּף) is the Hebrew word numbered H441 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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). In the King James Bible it is translated captain, duke, (chief) friend, governor, guide.

• Original wordאַלּוּף
• Transliterationʼallûwph
• Pronunciational-loof'
• Part of speechadjective (masculine) (a-m)
• Strong’s numberH441
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or (shortened) אַלֻּף; from H502;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Alluwph appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Alluwph (H441) stands behind 69 English renderings in 29 verses across 8 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Genesis (43), 1 Chronicles (13), Proverbs (3).

How the King James Bible renders Alluwph, by count

• duke43 of 69 (62 percent)
• dukes14 of 69 (20 percent)
• guide4 of 69 (6 percent)
• friends2 of 69 (3 percent)
• governors2 of 69 (3 percent)
• captains1 of 69 (1 percent)

Three places to read Alluwph

• Genesis 36:15 These were dukes of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,
• Genesis 36:41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
• Proverbs 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Alluwph in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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