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Dictionaries :: Thousand (-s)

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g5507 Greek: chilioi

Thousand (-s):

"a thousand," occurs in 2Pe 3:8; Rev 11:3; 12:6; 14:20; 20:2-7.

2 Strong's Number: g5505 Greek: chilias

Thousand (-s):

"one thousand," is always used in the plural, chiliades, but translated in the sing. everywhere, except in the phrase "thousands of thousands," Rev 5:11.

Notes:

(1) The following compounds of No. 1 represent different multiples of a thousand:
     dischilioi, 2,000, Mar 5:13;
     trischilioi, 3,000, Act 2:41;
     tetrakischilioi, 4,000, Mat 15:38; 16:10; Mar 8:9, 20; Act 21:38;
     pentakischilioi, 5,000, Mat 14:21; 16:9; Mar 6:44; 8:19;
         Luk 9:14; Jhn 6:10;
     heptakischilioi, 7,000, Rom 11:4.

(2) Murias, "a myriad, a vast number," "many thousands," Luk 12:1, RV; Act 21:20; it also denotes 10,000, Act 19:19, lit., "five ten-thousands;" Jud 1:14, "ten thousands;" in Rev 5:11 "ten thousand times ten thousand" is, lit., "myriads of myriads;" in Rev 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 1Cr 4:15; 14:19; it also denotes the definite number "ten thousand," Mat 18:24.

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