myrias · ten thousand

What it means

myrias (μυριάς) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “ten thousand”.

Myriad; a countless multitude.

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. A countless host.

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

How it is translated

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

• myriads ×4
• thousands ×2
• fifty thousand ×1
• two hundred million ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Luke×1
• Acts×2
• Hebrews×1
• Jude×1
• Revelation×3

• Luke 12:1

  Meanwhile, when the crowd had gathered by the thousands, so that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware for yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

• Acts 19:19

  And a number of those who had practiced magic brought together their books and were burning them before everyone; and they counted up their value and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

• Acts 21:20

  And when they heard it, they glorified God, and they said to him, “You see, brother, how many tens of thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law;

• Hebrews 12:22

  But you have drawn near to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in festal gathering,

• Jude 1:14

  And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about these, saying, Look, the Lord came with his holy myriads

• 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 9:16

  And the number of the troops of cavalry was two hundred million; I heard their number.

And 1 more times.