χίλιοι
chilioi
thousand
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
SupportedThe Greek word χίλιοι (chilioi) is used to express the concept of a large quantity, specifically a thousand. This number is significant in various contexts within the Bible, appearing 11 times. The word's meaning is clear: it denotes a multitude of items, individuals, or units equivalent to 1000. χίλιοι's usage in the Bible ranges from counting large groups of people, such as soldiers or animals, to expressing a significant period of time, like a millennial period. This term is essential for conveying immense numbers or quantities, allowing readers to comprehend the scale of events, objects, or durations mentioned in scripture. χίλιοι's significance lies in its ability to provide a sense of magnitude and scope, underscoring the grandeur or magnitude of the situations being described. By using this word, biblical authors effectively convey their messages and ideas, making the stories and teachings more relatable and impactful for their audience.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
11 total occurrences across the text
But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:8But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Revelation 11:3I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
Revelation 12:6The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.
Revelation 14:20The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.
Revelation 20:2He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,
Revelation 20:3and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.
Revelation 20:4I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Revelation 20:5The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
Revelation 20:6Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
Revelation 20:7And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,