Greek noun (feminine) · G5505
χιλιάς
chiliaskhil-ee-as'
thousand
23 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: chiliás
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5505is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5505
one thousand ("chiliad")
The King James renders it: thousand.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chilias is rendered "thousand". It stands 23 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Nineteen of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 14:31Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
Luke 14:31χιλιάσιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nineteen of the word's twenty-three uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- thousand21
- of thousands1
- thousands1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 23, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- χιλιάδες19
- χιλιάδων3
- χιλιάσιν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural19N-NPF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural3N-GPF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural1N-DPF
Luke
two uses
Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
- χιλιάσινchiliasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
- χιλιάδωνchiliadonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
Acts
one use
But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
1 Corinthians
one use
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
Revelation
nineteen uses
Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels and living creatures and elders encircling the throne, and their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousands
- χιλιάδωνchiliadonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: of thousands
And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel:
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben 12,000, from the tribe of Gad 12,000,
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
from the tribe of Asher 12,000, from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000, from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
from the tribe of Simeon 12,000, from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000, from the tribe of Joseph 12,000, and from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand were killed in the quake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads.
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
- χιλιάδεςchiliadesnoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.
- χιλιάδωνchiliadonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: thousand
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.