χιλιάς
thousand
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine 19 times (83%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine 3 times (13%)
- Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine 1 time (4%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 23 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G5505 appears — 13 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Revelation 10 verses
- Revelation 5:11 χιλιάδες χιλιάδων n nom pl fem n gen pl fem I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands;
- Revelation 7:4 χιλιάδες n nom pl fem I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:
- Revelation 7:5 χιλιάδες χιλιάδες χιλιάδες n nom pl fem n nom pl fem n nom pl fem Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand, Of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, Of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,
- Revelation 7:6 χιλιάδες χιλιάδες χιλιάδες n nom pl fem n nom pl fem n nom pl fem Of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, Of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand, Of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,
- Revelation 7:7 χιλιάδες χιλιάδες χιλιάδες n nom pl fem n nom pl fem n nom pl fem Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, Of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, Of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,
- Revelation 7:8 χιλιάδες χιλιάδες χιλιάδες n nom pl fem n nom pl fem n nom pl fem Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, Of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.
- Revelation 11:13 χιλιάδες n nom pl fem In that day there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
- Revelation 14:1 χιλιάδες n nom pl fem I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
- Revelation 14:3 χιλιάδες n nom pl fem They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.
- Revelation 21:16 χιλιάδων n gen pl fem The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek noun χιλιας centers on the idea of “thousand.” Revelation dominates its distribution — 10 of 13 verses. The Greek New Testament uses it across 13 verses — uncommon. Its earliest occurrence is Luke 14:31. Sharing its root, it stands alongside χιλιοι and χιλιαρχος. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5505 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #563
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 563 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 10 verses 77%
- Luke 1 verse 8%
- Acts 1 verse 8%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 13 distinct verses.
- Johannine 10 verses · 77%
- Revelation 10 verses · 77%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 15%
- Gospels 1 verse · 8%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Thousand 21×, Thousands 2×
- American Standard Version: Thousand 21×, Thousands 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Thousand 5×, Thousands 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Thousands 17×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5505 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5505 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5505 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 16 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5505 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a thousand, the number one thousand
Word origin
Derived from χιλιοι (chílioi) (G5507) — thousand.
From G5507 ; one thousand (chiliad): - thousand.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G5505 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| χιλιάδες chiliádes | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | Acts 4:4 | 19 |
| χιλιάδων chiliádōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Feminine | Luke 14:31 | 3 |
| χιλιάσιν chiliásin | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | Luke 14:31 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G5505, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word χιλιας appears 294 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 240 verses in 18 books.
- 294
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 240
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 18 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 18 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 24:60 χιλιάς
- Exodus 12:37 χιλιάς
- Numbers 1:21 χιλιάς
- Deuteronomy 5:10 χιλιάς
- Joshua 8:3 χιλιάς
- Judges 1:4 χιλιάς
- 1 Samuel 4:2 χιλιάς
- 2 Samuel 6:1 χιλίας
- 1 Kings 2:35 χιλιάς
- 2 Kings 3:4 χιλιάς
- 1 Chronicles 5:18 χιλιάς
- 2 Chronicles 1:14 χιλίας
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G5505) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 240. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 24:60 χιλιάς They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
- Exodus 12:37 χιλιάς The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
- Exodus 20:6 χιλιάς and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
- Exodus 34:7 χιλιάς keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
- Numbers 1:21 χιλιάς those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
- Numbers 1:23 χιλιάς those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
- Numbers 1:25 χιλιάς those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
- Numbers 1:27 χιλιάς those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were sixty-four thousand six hundred.
- Numbers 1:29 χιλιάς those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 1:31 χιλιάς those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 1:33 χιλιάς those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand five hundred.
- Numbers 1:35 χιλιάς those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
- Numbers 1:37 χιλιάς those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 1:39 χιλιάς those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
- Numbers 1:41 χιλιάς those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
- Numbers 1:43 χιλιάς those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 1:46 χιλιάς even all those who were numbered were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
- Numbers 2:4 χιλιάς His division, and those who were numbered of them, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.
- Numbers 2:6 χιλιάς His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-four thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 2:8 χιλιάς His division, and those who were numbered of it, were fifty-seven thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 2:9 χιλιάς All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
- Numbers 2:11 χιλιάς His division, and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
- Numbers 2:13 χιλιάς His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.
- Numbers 2:15 χιλιάς His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
- Numbers 2:16 χιλιάς "All who were numbered of the camp of Reuben were one hundred fifty-one thousand four hundred fifty, according to their hosts. They shall set out second.
- Numbers 2:19 χιλιάς His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty thousand five hundred.
- Numbers 2:21 χιλιάς His division, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.
- Numbers 2:23 χιλιάς His host, and those who were numbered of them, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 2:24 χιλιάς "All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.
- Numbers 2:26 χιλιάς His division, and those who were numbered of them, were sixty-two thousand seven hundred.
- Numbers 2:28 χιλιάς His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-one thousand and five hundred.
- Numbers 2:30 χιλιάς His division, and those who were numbered of them, were fifty-three thousand four hundred.
- Numbers 2:31 χιλιάς "All who were numbered of the camp of Dan were one hundred fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set out last by their standards."
- Numbers 2:32 χιλιάς These are those who were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses. All who were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.
- Numbers 3:39 χιλιάς All who were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty-two thousand.
- Numbers 3:43 χιλιάς All the firstborn males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those who were numbered of them, were twenty-two thousand two hundred seventy-three.
- Numbers 10:35 χιλιάς It happened, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered; and let those who hate you flee before you.
- Numbers 11:21 χιλιάς Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
- Numbers 17:14 χιλιάς
- Numbers 25:9 χιλιάς Those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.
- Numbers 26:7 χιλιάς These are the families of the Reubenites; and those who were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty.
- Numbers 26:14 χιλιάς These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.
- Numbers 26:18 χιλιάς These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those who were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
- Numbers 26:21 χιλιάς The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.
- Numbers 26:23 χιλιάς The sons of Issachar after their families: [of] Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;
- Numbers 26:27 χιλιάς These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred.
- Numbers 26:31 χιλιάς and [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
- Numbers 26:38 χιλιάς The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;
- Numbers 26:41 χιλιάς These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.
- Numbers 26:45 χιλιάς Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G5505) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
