πεντακισχίλιοι
pentakischilioi · five thousand
Greek word · Strong’s number G4000 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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pentakischilioi (πεντακισχίλιοι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “five thousand”.
How to say it
pen·ta·kis·chi·li·oi
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
- Five times a thousand; in the Gospels, the men who ate from five loaves.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
Related words
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Matthew 14:21
And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
- Matthew 16:9
Do you not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?
- Mark 6:44
And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.
- Mark 8:19
when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?” They say to him, “Twelve.”
- Luke 9:14
For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, “Make them recline in groups of about fifty each.”
- John 6:10
Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.