ΧΙΛΙΑ, χιλια
CHILIA, chilia
Sounds Like: KHEE-lee-ah
Translations: thousand, a thousand
From the root: ΧΙΛΙΟΙ
Part of Speech: Numeral, Adjective
Explanation: This word refers to the number one thousand. It is used as a numeral adjective, often appearing in the plural to denote a quantity of one thousand units of something. It can modify nouns, indicating a large number.
Inflection: Neuter, Plural, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G5505 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 15:4
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Chronicles — 19:6
- Job — 42:12
- Sirach — 41:4
- 2 Peter — 3:8
- Revelation — 20:3, 20:4, 20:6, 20:7
- Epistle of Barnabas — 15:4
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 3:108
- Book 7 — 5:99, 6:121
- Book 8 — 2:22, 3:61, 7:183, 10:254
- Book 9 — 4:94, 11:232, 13:271
- Book 10 — 8:147
- Book 11 — 1:15
- Book 12 — 6:181, 6:208
- Book 14 — 13:331, 13:343, 14:379
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 20:14, 20:16
- 2 Samuel — 8:4
- 2 Kings — 15:19
- 1 Chronicles — 18:4, 19:6
- 2 Chronicles — 1:14
- Ezra (Alpha) — 1:9, 2:12
- Ezra (Beta) — 1:10
- Psalms — 89:4
- Job — 42:12
- Sirach — 41:4
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΧΙΛΙΟΙ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΧΕΙΛΙΟΙ — thousand, a thousand
- ΧΙΛΕΣΙΝ — to a thousand, to thousands, for a thousand, for thousands
- ΧΙΛΙΑΙ — thousand, thousands
- ΧΙΛΙΑΙΣ — to a thousand, by a thousand, with a thousand, for a thousand
- ΧΙΛΙΑΚΑΙ — thousand, thousands
- ΧΙΛΙΑΝ — a thousand, one thousand
- ΧΙΛΙΟΙΣ — to a thousand, for a thousand, with a thousand, by a thousand
- ΧΙΛΙΟΝ — thousand, a thousand
- ΧΙΛΙΟΥΣ — thousand
- ΧΙΛΙΩ — of a thousand, of thousands, a thousand, thousands
- ΧΙΛΙΩΝ — of a thousand, of thousands
- ΧΙΛΟΥΣ — thousand, a thousand
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