The corpus record

χῑλίαρχ-ος

chiliarchos · ὁ

captain over a thousand

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Where it lives

Acts 17 · 9.44/10k
Zacharias 3 · 6.22/10k
Paralipomenon I 5 · 3.76/10k
Numeri 5 · 2.17/10k
Revelation 2 · 2.02/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Regnorum I 3 · 1.62/10k
Paralipomenon II 3 · 1.52/10k
Josue (cod. Vat.) 2 · 1.5/10k
Esdras I 1 · 1.22/10k
Machabaeorum I 2 · 1.15/10k
Judith 1 · 1.14/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

χῑλίαρχ-ος · chiliarch-os — LSJ

captain over a thousand, commandant

captain over a thousand, A. Pers. 304: esp. commandant of a garrison, X. Cyr. 8.1.14, Oec. 4.7.

= χιλιάρχης II, Plb. 6.19.1, al., D.H. 2.14, Inscr.Magn. 157b (i A. D.), etc. (the usual form in this sense).

title of Persian court official, Plu. Art. 5, Ael. VH 1.21; also in Macedonia, D.S. 18.48.

In the wild

χιλίαρχος · chiliarchos Aeschylus, Persians 304–305
χιλίαρχον · chiliarchon Epictetus, Discourses 1.16 (DIORISIS sentence 781)
χιλίαρχον · chiliarchon New Testament, Acts 21.31 (DIORISIS sentence 745)
χιλιάρχῳ · chiliarchōi New Testament, Acts 21.31 (DIORISIS sentence 745)
χιλίαρχος · chiliarchos New Testament, Acts 21.33 (DIORISIS sentence 746)
χιλιάρχῳ · chiliarchōi New Testament, Acts 21.37 (DIORISIS sentence 750)

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Where it came from

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