The feminine noun chilias denotes the number one thousand as a counting unit. While it appears in straightforward narrative — the five thousand who believed (Acts 4:4), the twenty-three thousand who fell (1 Cor 10:8) — its most theologically charged usage comes in Revelation, where it structures the 144,000 sealed from twelve tribes (Rev 7:4-8), the thousand-year reign (Rev 20:2-6), and heavenly hosts numbering 'myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands' (Rev 5:11). Spanish 'miles,' French 'millier,' and German 'Tausende' all employ straightforward numeral plurals, confirming uniform semantic treatment across all 23 occurrences.