Meaning
"a thousand," occurs in 2Pe 3:8, Rev 11:3, Rev 12:6, Rev 14:20, Rev 1:20-7.
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"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, Mat 16:10, Mar 8:9, Mar 8:20, Act 21:38; pentakischilioi, 5,000, Mat 14:21, Mat 16:9, Mar 6:44, Mar 18:19, Luk 9:14, Joh 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 1Co 4:15, 1Co 14:19; it also denotes the definite number "ten thousand," Mat 18:24.
