chilias · thousand

What it means

chilias (χιλιάς) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “thousand”.

A thousand, a group of a thousand.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The number one thousand.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• thousand ×21
• thousands ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Luke×2
• Acts×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Revelation×19

• Luke 14:31

  Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet the one who comes against him with twenty thousand?

• Acts 4:4

  But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

• 1 Corinthians 10:8

  Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

• Revelation 5:11

  And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and their number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,

• Revelation 7:4

  And I heard the number of those who were sealed: a hundred forty-four thousand, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel.

• Revelation 7:5

  From the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand,

• Revelation 7:6

  from the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, from the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand, from the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,

• Revelation 7:7

  from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,

• Revelation 7:8

  from the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, from the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, from the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.

• Revelation 11:13

  And in that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell, and seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest became terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

• Revelation 14:1

  And I looked, and look, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a hundred forty four thousand who had his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads.

• Revelation 14:3

  And they sing as it were a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the hundred forty four thousand, who had been bought from the earth.

• Revelation 21:16

  And the city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its width. And he measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand stadia; its length and width and height are equal.

And 10 more times.