The corpus record

χῑλι-άς

chilias · ἡ

a thousand

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Where it lives

Paralipomenon I 55 · 41.38/10k
Revelation 31 · 31.34/10k
Numeri 67 · 29.02/10k
Paralipomenon II 40 · 20.32/10k
Judices (cod. Al.) 24 · 16.41/10k
Regnorum III 21 · 10.99/10k
Regnorum I 20 · 10.8/10k
Ezechiel 30 · 10.38/10k
Regnorum II 15 · 9.27/10k
Michaeas 2 · 8.78/10k
Machabaeorum I 12 · 6.89/10k
Judith 5 · 5.71/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

χῑλι-άς · chili-as — LSJ

a thousand

a thousand, Id. 6.58, 7.28, A. Pers. 341; χ. τέτορες Simon. 91; c. gen., πολλὰς χιλιάδας ταλάντων Hdt. 2.96, cf. 28; ἐννέα χιλιάδας ἐτῶν Pl. Phdr. 257a.

2 large number

generally, large number, Theoc. 16.91, Luc. Herm. 56; πολλαὶ χ., of lines of poetry, Call. Aet. Oxy. 2079.4 [Fr. 1.4 Pf.]

Χιλιάδες, αἱ, title of poem by Euph., Ath. 10.436f, etc.

= χιλιετηρίς, Alex.Aetol. 4.4; Ῥωμαϊκὴ χ., title of work by Asinius Quadratus, St.Byz. s.v. Ἀνθιον (cf. χιλιαρχία III, χιλιετηρίς).

In the wild

χιλιὰς · chilias Aeschylus, Persians 341–342
χιλιάδες · chiliades Herodotus, Histories 2.134.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2504)
χιλιάδων · chiliadōn Herodotus, Histories 2.28.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1712)
χιλιάδας · chiliadas Herodotus, Histories 2.96.5 (DIORISIS sentence 2216)
χιλιάδες · chiliades Herodotus, Histories 6.58.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6496)
χιλιάδων · chiliadōn Herodotus, Histories 7.103.3 (DIORISIS sentence 7660)

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Where it came from

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