χιλιάςchiliás
one thousand ("chiliad")
Greek (New Testament) · G5505
Meanings
the number one thousand, a thousand: Luke 14:31, Acts 4:4, 1 Corinthians 10:8, Revelation 5:11, Revelation 7:4-8, Revelation 11:13, Revelation 14:1, Revelation 14:3, Revelation 21:16.
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 23 times in the Bible.
- Luke 14:31 “Or what king would go to war against another king without first sitting down with his counselors to discuss whether his army of 10,000 could defeat the 20,000 soldiers marching against him?
- Acts 4:4 But many of the people who heard their message believed it, so the number of men who believed now totaled about 5,000.
- 1 Corinthians 10:8 And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.
- Revelation 5:11 Then I looked again, and I heard the voices of thousands and millions of angels around the throne and of the living beings and the elders.
- Revelation 7:4 And I heard how many were marked with the seal of God—144,000 were sealed from all the tribes of Israel:
- Revelation 7:5 from Judah 12,000from Reuben 12,000from Gad 12,000
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.