noun · feminine
chiliadas
Strong’sG5505
a thousand
stem chiliad-23 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
χιλιάς means the number one thousand, used as a numeral term for "a thousand" 124. It occurs in this sense throughout the Greek Old Testament, where it renders the Hebrew word for "thousand," and in the New Testament in contexts such as counting people, casualties, or symbolic groupings 1.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G5505 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhil-ee-as'
one thousand ("chiliad")
Fromfrom G5507;
King Jamesthousand.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
genitive plural χιλιάδων Refs 5th c.BC+:—a thousand, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 generally, large number, Refs 3rd c.BC+; πολλαὶ χ., of lines of poetry, Refs
3 Χιλιάδες, αἱ, title of poem by Refs 3rd c.BC+
II ={χιλιετηρίς}, Refs; Ῥωμαϊκὴ χ., title of work by Asinius Quadratus, Refs 5th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | chiliadas | chiliadais19×χιλιάδες |
| object accusative | chiliadan | chiliadain |
| direct address vocative | chiliadar | chiliadair |
| of, belonging to genitive | chiliadau | chiliadaiu3×χιλιάδων |
| to, for dative | chiliada | chiliadai1×χιλιάσιν |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
chiliada is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
23 occurrences, every one of them listed
chiliadais“thousand”subjectnominative plural19×
Acts 4:4… genita tos arithmos toiu androiu hōs chiliadais pente.… of men grew to about five thousand.
1 Corinthians 10:8… kai piptala hena hēmera eikosi treis chiliadais.… did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
Revelation 5:11… tos arithmos autoiu muriadais muriadaiu kai chiliadais chiliadaiu,… number was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.
Revelation 7:4“thousand”… arithmon toiu sfragizorēntoiu, hekaton tesserakonta tessares chiliadais, sfragizorēntois ek pantau fulau huioiu Israēl;… heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel:
Revelation 7:5“thousand”ek fulau Ioudou dōdeka chiliadais sfragizorēntois, ek fulau Roubēn dōdeka chiliadais, …From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben 12,000, from the …
Revelation 7:5“thousand”… chiliadais sfragizorēntois, ek fulau Roubēn dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Gad dōdeka chiliadais,… Judah 12,000 were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben 12,000, from the tribe of Gad 12,000,
Revelation 7:5“thousand”… dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Gad dōdeka chiliadais,… of Reuben 12,000, from the tribe of Gad 12,000,
Revelation 7:6“thousand”ek fulau Asēr dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Nefthalim dōdeka chiliadais, ek …from the tribe of Asher 12,000, from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000, from the tribe …
Revelation 7:6“thousand”… dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Nefthalim dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Manassou dōdeka chiliadais,… of Asher 12,000, from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000, from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,
Revelation 7:6“thousand”… dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Manassou dōdeka chiliadais,… of Naphtali 12,000, from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,
Revelation 7:7“thousand”ek fulau Sumeōn dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Leviou dōdeka chiliadais, ek …from the tribe of Simeon 12,000, from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from the tribe …
Revelation 7:7“thousand”… dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Leviou dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Issachar dōdeka chiliadais,… of Simeon 12,000, from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,
Revelation 7:7“thousand”… dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Issachar dōdeka chiliadais,… of Levi 12,000, from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,
Revelation 7:8“thousand”ek fulau Zaboulōn dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Iōsēf dōdeka chiliadais, ek …from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000, from the tribe of Joseph 12,000, and from the tribe …
Revelation 7:8“thousand”… dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Iōsēf dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Beniamin dōdeka chiliadais sfragizorēntois.… of Zebulun 12,000, from the tribe of Joseph 12,000, and from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.
Revelation 7:8“thousand”… dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Beniamin dōdeka chiliadais sfragizorēntois.… Joseph 12,000, and from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.
Revelation 11:13… apoktenila en to seismo onomeim anthrōpoiu chiliadais hepta, kai tois loipois emfobois genela …… tenth of the city collapsed. Seven thousand were killed in the quake, and …
Revelation 14:1“thousand”… kai meta autou hekaton tesserakonta tessares chiliadais echarōntais tem onomem autou kai tem …… Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s …
Revelation 14:3“thousand”… ei mē tais hekaton tesserakonta tessares chiliadais, tois agorazorēntois apo tau gēau.… the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
chiliadaiu“thousand”of, belonging togenitive plural3×
Luke 14:31… deka chiliadai hupantara to meta eikosi chiliadaiu erchorōnto epi auton?… one coming against him with twenty thousand?
Revelation 5:11… arithmos autoiu muriadais muriadaiu kai chiliadais chiliadaiu,… myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands.
Revelation 21:16“thousand”… polan to kalamo epi stadioin dōdeka chiliadaiu; tem mēkem kai tem platem kai …The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal — 12,000 stadia in length and width and height.
chiliadai“thousand”to, fordative plural1×
Luke 14:31… bouleueti ei dunatos atō en deka chiliadai hupantara to meta eikosi chiliadaiu erchorōnto …… whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him …