χιλιάς chilias

Greek word for “thousand” · Strong’s G5505 · used 23 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

χιλιάς, -άδος, ἡ; (χίλιοι); the number one thousand, a thousand:, 7:4-8 11:13 14:1, 3 21:16.†;

How it is translated

Glosses given for chilias in context, with how often each is used:

• thousand 21
• thousands 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Revelation 7 (5), Revelation 14 (2), Luke 14 (1), Acts 4 (1), 1 Corinthians 10 (1), Revelation 5 (1), Revelation 11 (1), Revelation 21 (1)

Forms

• χιλιάδες 19
• χιλιάδων 3
• χιλιάσιν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chilias more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• φυλή phulē “tribe” 5
• δώδεκα dōdeka “twelve” 5
• σφραγίζω sphragizō “to seal” 3
• ἀριθμός arithmos “number” 3
• ἑκατόν hekaton “hundred” 3
• τεσσαράκοντα tessarakonta “forty” 3
• τέσσαρες tessares “four” 3
• εἴκοσι eikosi “twenty” 2
• ζῷον zōon “living thing” 2
• θρόνος thronos “throne” 2
• πρεσβύτερος presbuteros “elder” 2
• πίπτω piptō “to collapse” 2

Key verses

The verses using chilias that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Luke 14:31 — 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…
• Acts 4:4 — Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
• 1 Corinthians 10:8 — Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
• Revelation 5:11 — And 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…
• Revelation 7:4 — And 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 7:5 — Of 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 7:6 — Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
• Revelation 7:7 — Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
• Revelation 11:13 — And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant…
• Revelation 14:1 — And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
• Revelation 14:3 — And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty…
• Revelation 21:16 — And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.