This numerical adjective means seven thousand. In Romans 11:4, Paul quotes God's response to Elijah: 'I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.' The number represents God's faithful remnant in Israel during Elijah's time, and Paul applies this remnant theology to his own day. The multilingual evidence is completely uniform: all languages render this directly as 'seven thousand,' showing numbers typically transfer without semantic shift across languages. The significance lies not in the word itself but in what the specific number represents theologically.