Ochlos ὄχλος

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Ochlos
ὄχλος
Transliterationochlos
Strong's numberG3793
LanguageGreek
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glosscrowd
Occurrences176 in 171 verses
Most frequent inMatthew (48)

Ochlos (Greek ὄχλος, Strong's G3793) is a Greek masculine noun meaning “crowd”. It occurs 176 times in 171 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

ὄχλος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX for הָמוֹן (chiefly in Da TH), קָהָל ,חַיִל, etc. ;]
1. a moving crowd or multitude of persons, a throng: Mat.9:23, Mrk.2:4, Luk.5:1, Jhn.5:13, al.; pl., Mat.5:1, Mrk.10:1, Luk.3:7, and freq.; ὄ. ἱκανός, Mrk.10:46, al.; τοσοῦτος, Mat.15:33; οὐ μετ᾽ ὄχλου, Act.24:18; ἄτερ ὄχλου, Luk.22:6; πᾶς ὁ ὄ., Mat.13:2, Mrk.2:13, al.; ὄ. πολύς, Mat.20:29, Mrk.5:21, al.; ὁ πολὺς ὄ. (ὄ. π.), the populace, the common people, Mrk.12:37 (Swete, in l.; Field, Notes, 37), Jhn.12:9 (Westc, in l.).
2. (As also cl., opposite to δῆμος, which see, and cf. Tr., Syn., §xcviii), the populace, the common people (cf. ὁ πολὺς ὄ., supr.), Mat.14:5 21:26, Mrk.12:12, Jhn.7:12b; so with contempt (cl.), Jhn.7:49. In a more general sense, a multitude: with genitive, ὀνομάτων (see: ὀ.), Act.1:15; μαθητῶν, Luk.6:17, al.
(AS)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVpeople (83), multitude (59), multitudes (19), company (7), press (5), therefore (1), number (1)
BSBcrowd (98), crowds (48), people (17), multitude (3), many people (1), number (1), mob (1), multitudes (1)

Verses

Every verse with Ochlos, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

Revelation

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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