Thousand (-s) - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Thousand (-s)

[ 1,,G5507, chilioi ]
a thousand," occurs in 2 Peter 3:8; Revelation 11:3; Revelation 12:6; Revelation 14:20; Revelation 20:2-Revelation 20:7.

[ 2,,G5505, chilias ]
"one thousand," is always used in the plural, chiliades, but translated in the sing. everywhere, except in the phrase "thousands of thousands," Revelation 5:11.

Notes:

(1) The following compounds of No. 1 represent different multiples of a thousand: dischilioi, 2,000, Mark 5:13; trischilioi, 3,000, Acts 2:41; tetrakischilioi, 4,000, Matthew 15:38; Matthew 16:10; Mark 8:9, Mark 8:20; Acts 21:38; pentakischilioi, 5,000, Matthew 14:21; Matthew 16:9; Mark 6:44; Mark 18:19; Luke 9:14; John 6:10; heptakischilioi, 7,000, Romans 11:4.

(2) Murias, "a myriad, a vast number," "many thousands," Luke 12:1, RV; Acts 21:20; it also denotes 10,000, Acts 19:19, lit., "five ten-thousands;" Jude 1:14, "ten thousands;" in Revelation 5:11 "ten thousand times ten thousand" is, lit., "myriads of myriads;" in Revelation 9:16 in the best texts, dismuriades muriadon, "twice ten thousand times ten thousand" RV (AV, "two hundred thousand thousand"): See INNUMERABLE.

(3) Murioi (the plur. of murios), an adjective signifying "numberless," is used in this indefinite sense in 1 Corinthians 4:15; 1 Corinthians 14:19; it also denotes the definite number "ten thousand," Matthew 18:24.

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