Bible dictionaries
Thousand
What Bible dictionaries say about “Thousand”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Thousand - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
THOU'SAND, a. s as z.
1. Denoting the number of ten hundred.
2. Proverbially, denoting a great number indefinitely. It is a thousand chances to one that you succeed.
THOU'SAND, n. The number of ten hundred.
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand. Psa 91.
Thousand is sometimes used plurally without the plural termination, as in the passage above, ten thousand; but it often takes the plural termination. In former times, how many thousands perished by famine!
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
thou'-zand ('eleph; chilioi).
See NUMBER.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915