'Thousands' in the Bible
These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
When it rested, he said, "Return, Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel."
So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
The officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;
All the gold of the wave offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels.
Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the Tent of Meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.