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χιλιάς
chiliás · Greek · Strong's G5505 · 23 occurrences
The KJV renders 4 different Hebrew and Greek words as “thousand”
What it means
one thousand ("chiliad")
from G5507 (χίλιοι);
How the KJV renders it
thousand
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
Where it appears
23 occurrences in the Greek text, first 13 verses shown.
1 Corinthians 10:8 · N-NPF
Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
Acts 4:4 · N-NPF
But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
Luke 14:31 · N-DPF
Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Revelation 5:11 · N-GPF
I looked, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. The number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands,
Revelation 7:4 · N-NPF
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 · N-NPF
of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed, of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,
Revelation 7:6 N-NPFRevelation 7:7 N-NPFRevelation 7:8 N-NPFRevelation 11:13 N-NPFRevelation 14:1 N-NPFRevelation 14:3 N-NPFRevelation 21:16 N-GPF
Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Greek text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.