πεντακισχίλιοι
pentakischilioi
five thousand
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word πεντακισχίλιοι (pentakischilioi), with Strong's number G4000, is a numerical term used to express a quantity of five thousand. This word is found six times in the Bible, indicating its relatively limited yet significant occurrence. In terms of range of usage, πεντακισχίλιοι appears in different contexts within the Bible, suggesting its application in various situations. The meaning of five thousand remains constant throughout, implying the word's precision as a numerical representation. The significance of πεντακισχίλιοι lies in its potential to convey a sense of magnitude or impact. As a numerical quantity, it could be used to describe the size of a crowd, a amount of resources, or another measurable entity, allowing the writer to convey the importance or scale of the subject at hand.
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Occurrences in Scripture
6 total occurrences across the text
Those who ate were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.
Matthew 16:9Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Mark 6:44Those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.
Mark 8:19When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Twelve.”
Luke 9:14For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”
John 6:10Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.