Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
five thousand
Usage: πεντακισ-χίλιοι, -αι, -α five thousand: Mat.14:21 16:9, Mrk.6:44 8:19, Luk.9:14, Jhn.6:10.† (AS)
Pentakischilioi means “five thousand” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4000 — mabon (“taught”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4000 πεντακισχίλιοι (pentakischilioi) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pentakischilioi (pen-tak-is-khil'-ee-oy) n. 1. five times a thousand [from G3999 and G5507] It has 27 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include five. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
pentakischilioi (pen-tak-is-khil'-ee-oy) n. 1. five times a thousand [from G3999 and G5507] KJV: five thousand Root(s): G3999, G5507
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five thousand
Usage: πεντακισ-χίλιοι, -αι, -α five thousand: Mat.14:21 16:9, Mrk.6:44 8:19, Luk.9:14, Jhn.6:10.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pentakischilioi, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G4000 (πεντακισχίλιοι) appears 21 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
6 indexed usages in New Testament.
And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon; and the children of Israel picked off of them five thousand men; and the children of Israel went down after them as far as Gidom, and they smote of them two thousand men.
And Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were five thousand.
And they took captive their store; five thousand camels, and two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men.
13 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And Jeconiah, and Shemaiah, and Nethanel his brother, and Hashabiah, and Ochiel, and Joram, captains over thousands, gave to the Levites for the Passover five thousand sheep, and seven hundred calves.
Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them forth, he delivered them to Mithridates his treasurer:
Their menservants and handmaids were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: the singing men and singing women, two hundred forty and five:
First 27 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4000.
And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon; and the children of Israel picked off of them five thousand men; and the children of Israel went down after them as far as Gidom, and they smote of them two thousand men.
And Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were five thousand.
And they took captive their store; five thousand camels, and two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men.
And they gave for the works of the house of the Lord five thousand talents of gold, and ten thousand gold pieces, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.
And Conaniah, and Benaiah, and Shemaiah, and Nethanel his brother, and Hashabiah, and Jeiel, and Jozabad, heads of the Levites, gave an offering to the Levites for the Passover, of five thousand sheep and five hundred calves.
All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
And the rest of the Jews who were in the kingdom assembled, and helped one another, and obtained rest from their enemies: for they destroyed fifteen thousand of them on the thirteenth day of Adar, but took no spoil.
And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.
When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
And Jeconiah, and Shemaiah, and Nethanel his brother, and Hashabiah, and Ochiel, and Joram, captains over thousands, gave to the Levites for the Passover five thousand sheep, and seven hundred calves.
Now when Cyrus king of the Persians had brought them forth, he delivered them to Mithridates his treasurer:
Their menservants and handmaids were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: the singing men and singing women, two hundred forty and five:
And certain of the chief of their families, when they came to the temple of God that is in Jerusalem, vowed to set up the house again in his own place according to their ability,
Then took Gorgias five thousand footmen, and a thousand of the best horsemen, and removed out of the camp by night;
In the following year therefore, Lysias gathered together threescore thousand choice men of foot, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them.
So they joined battle; and there were slain of the host of Lysias about five thousand men, even before them were they slain.
And beside this, the five thousand shekels of silver, which they took from the uses of the temple out of the accounts year by year, even those things shall be released, because they appertain to the priests that minister.
Now when they were gone from thence nine furlongs in their journey toward Timothy, no fewer than five thousand men on foot and five hundred horsemen of the Arabians set upon him.
Then Maccabeus marched forth to Carnaim, and to the temple of Atargatis, and there he slew five and twenty thousand persons.
But when Judas and his company had called upon Almighty God, who with his power breaketh the strength of his enemies, they won the city, and slew twenty and five thousand of them that were within.
and with him Lysias his protector, and ruler of his affairs, having either of them a Grecian power of footmen, a hundred and ten thousand, and horsemen five thousand and three hundred, and elephants two and twenty, and three hundred chariots armed with hooks.
So that fighting with their hands, and praying unto God with their hearts, they slew no less than thirty and five thousand men: for through the appearance of God they were greatly cheered.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4000, grouped by book.
Pentakischilioi (Strong's G4000) is a Greek word most simply glossed "five thousand". pentakischilioi (pen-tak-is-khil'-ee-oy) n. 1. five times a thousand [from G3999 and G5507]
This page currently indexes 27 linked usages for Strong's G4000 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4000 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as five. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 13 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4000, with linked reader references where each row is available.