Pentakischilioi means simply 'five thousand,' yet it has become one of the most iconic numbers in all of Scripture. Every occurrence connects to the miraculous feeding of the multitude — the only miracle (besides the resurrection) recorded in all four Gospels. Matthew 14:21 and Mark 6:44 report the original count; Matthew 16:9 and Mark 8:19 recall it in Jesus' later teaching. Luke 9:14 provides the detail that Jesus had the crowd sit in groups of fifty. The cross-linguistic uniformity — Spanish 'cinco mil,' French 'cinq mille,' German 'fuenftausend' — reflects the straightforward numerical meaning.