'Thousand' in the Bible

[But] there will be a distance between you and it of about two thousand cubits in measurement. Do not come near it, so that you may know the way that you must go, for you have not passed on [this] way {before}."

About forty thousand armed for fighting crossed [over] before the presence of Yahweh to the plains of Jericho for battle.

And they returned to Joshua and said to him, "Do not let all the people go up and attack Ai; [only] two or three thousand men should go up because they [are] few. Do not make all the people weary [up] there."

So about three thousand from the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.

So Joshua and {all the fighting men} went up immediately to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand of the best fighting men and sent them [by] night.

And he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

All the people that fell on that day, both men and women, [were] twelve thousand--all the inhabitants of Ai.

One of your men put to flight a thousand, for Yahweh your God [is] fighting for you, just as he promised you.