πεντακισχίλιοι

Matthew 14:21 πεντακισχίλιοι five thousand

About five thousand men were fed, besides women and children.

Here: A single compound number word, literally "five-times-thousand". It agrees in form with "men", so the 5,000 is the number of adult males only.

Matthew 16:9 πεντακισχιλίων five thousand

Do you still not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?

Here: Recalls Matthew 14:21, where the 5,000 counted men 'besides women and children'. The contrast with 'five' is the point: five loaves, five thousand people.

Mark 6:44 πεντακισχίλιοι five thousand

And there were five thousand men who had eaten the loaves.

Mark 8:19 πεντακισχιλίους five thousand

When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Twelve,” they answered.

Here: One compound word, 'five-thousand.' In 6:44 Mark says these were five thousand men (andres), which may mean the full crowd was bigger.

Luke 9:14 πεντακισχίλιοι.¶ five thousand.

(There were about five thousand men.) He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

Here: A large round figure. It sets up the gap between the need and the 'five loaves and two fish' of v.13.

John 6:10 πεντακισχίλιοι. five thousand.

“Have the people sit down,” Jesus said. Now there was plenty of grass in that place, so the men sat down, about five thousand of them.

Here: Five thousand. Set against five loaves and two fish (v.9), it shows how impossible the situation looked. It is the same figure all four Gospels give.