Thousand
χιλιάςStrong’s G5505chilias
Appears in 13 verses of the New Testament
In short
Chilias is the Greek word usually translated “thousand” and “thousands”. It appears in 13 verses of the New Testament.
“Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?”
Meaning
Usually translated “thousand” and “thousands”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- thousand 21
- thousands 1
- of thousands 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 10
- Luke 1
- Acts 1
- 1 Corinthians 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Acts 4:4Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
- 1 Corinthians 10:8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
- Revelation 5:11And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
- Revelation 7:4And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
- Revelation 7:5Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
- Revelation 7:6Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
Greek dictionary
χιλιάς chilias · thousand
χιλιάς, -άδος, ἡ (χίλιοι), [in LXX for אֶלֶף ;] the number one thousand, a thousand: Luk.14:31, Act.4:4, 1Co.10:8, Rev.5:11 7:4-8 11:13 14:1, 3 21:16.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thousand” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THOU'SAND, adjective
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- Denoting the number of ten hundred.
- Proverbially, denoting a great number indefinitely.
All definitions and other forms of “thousand”
THOU'SAND, noun
The number of ten hundred.
- “A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand” Psalms 91:7
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.