Thousand
χίλιοιStrong’s G5507chilioi
Appears in 10 verses of the New Testament
In short
Chilioi is the Greek word usually translated “thousand” and “one thousand”. It appears in 10 verses of the New Testament.
“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
Meaning
Usually translated “thousand” and “one thousand”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- a thousand 4
- thousand 4
- one thousand 2
- for a thousand 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 9
- 2 Peter 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Revelation 11:3And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
- Revelation 12:6And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
- Revelation 14:20And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
- Revelation 20:2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
- Revelation 20:3And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.
- Revelation 20:4And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Greek dictionary
χίλιοι chilioi · thousand
χίλιοι, -αι, -α a thousand: 2Pe.3:8 (LXX), Rev.11:3 12:6 14:20 20:2-7.† (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.