ὄχλος, 
ὄχλου, 
ὁ, in the N. T. only in the historical books and five times in the book of Revelation; as in Greek writings from 
Pindar and 
Aeschylus down, 
a crowd, i. e. 
1. a casual collection of people; a multitude of men who have flocked together in some place, a throng: 
Matthew 9:23, 
25; 
Matthew 15:10, etc.; 
Mark 2:4; 
Mark 3:9, and often; 
Luke 5:1, 
19; 
Luke 7:9, etc.; 
John 5:13; 
John 6:22, 
24; 
John 7:20, 
32, 
49, etc.; 
Acts 14:14; 
Acts 17:8; 
Acts 21:34; 
τίς ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου, 
Luke 11:27; 
Luke 12:13; or 
ἀπό τοῦ ὄχλου, 
Luke 19:39; 
9:38; 
ἀπό (
for i. e. 
on account of (cf. 
ἀπό, II. 2 b.)) 
τοῦ ὄχλου, 
Luke 19:3; 
ἡ βία τοῦ ὄχλου, 
Acts 21:35; 
πολύς ὄχλος and much more often 
ὄχλος πολύς, 
Matthew 14:14; 
Matthew 20:29; 
Matthew 26:47; 
Mark 5:21, 
24; 
Mark 6:34; 
Mark 9:14; 
Mark 14:43 (here 
T Tr WH omit; 
L Tr marginal reading brackets 
πολύς); 
Luke 7:11; 
Luke 8:4; 
Luke 9:37; 
John 6:2, 
5; 
John 12:12 (but here 
Tr marginal reading brackets 
WH prefix 
ὁ; cf. 
Buttmann, 91 (80)); 
Revelation 19:1, 
6; with the article 
ὁ πολύς ὄχλος, 
the great multitude present, 
Mark 12:37; (
ὁ ὄχλος πολύς (the noun forming with the adjective a single composite term, like our) 
the common people, John 12:9 T WH Tr marginal reading; cf. 
Buttmann, as above; some would give the phrase the same sense in Mark, the passage cited); 
πάμπολυς, 
Mark 8:1 (
Rec.); 
ἱκανός, 
Mark 10:46; 
Luke 7:12; 
Acts 11:24, 
26; 
Acts 19:26; 
ὁ... 
πλεῖστος ὄχλος (the most part of the multitude), 
Matthew 21:8; 
πᾶς ὁ ὄχλος, 
Matthew 13:2; 
Mark 2:13; 
Mark 4:1; 
Mark 7:14 (
Rec.); 
Mark 9:15; 
11:18; 
Luke 13:17; 
Acts 21:27; 
ὄχλον τοσοῦτον, 
Matthew 15:33; 
αἱ μυριάδες τοῦ ὄχλου Luke 12:1; 
οὐ μετά ὄχλου, not having a crowd with me, 
Acts 24:18; 
ἄτερ ὄχλου, in the absence of the multitude ((see 
ἄτερ)), 
Luke 22:6. plural 
οἱ ὄχλοι, very often in Matt. and Luke, as 
Matthew 5:1; 
Matthew 7:28; 
Matthew 9:8, 
33, 
36; 
Matthew 11:7; 
Matthew 12:46; 
Matthew 13:34, 
36, etc.; 
Luke 3:7, 
10; 
Luke 4:42; 
Luke 5:3; 
Luke 8:42, 
45; 
Luke 9:11; 
Luke 11:14, etc.; 
Acts 8:6; 
Acts 13:45; 
Acts 14:11, 
13, 
18; 
Acts 17:13; once in 
John 7:12 (where 
Tdf. the singular); in Mark only 
Mark 6:33 Rec.; and without the article 
Mark 10:1; 
ὄχλοι πολλοί, 
Matthew 4:25; 
Matthew 8:1; 
Matthew 12:15 (
R G); 
Matthew 13:2; 
15:30; 
19:2; 
Luke 5:15; 
Luke 14:25; 
πάντες οἱ ὄχλοι, 
Matthew 12:23. 
2. the multitude, i. e. 
the common people, opposed to the rulers and leading men: 
Matthew 14:5; 
Matthew 21:26; 
Mark 12:12; (
John 7:12b (provided the plural is retained in the first part of the verse)); with contempt, "the ignorant multitude, the populace, 
John 7:49; 
ἐπισύστασις ὄχλου, a riot, a mob, 
Acts 24:12 (
L T Tr WH ἐπίστασιν (which see) 
ὄχλου). 
3. universally, 
a multitude: with a genitive of the class, as 
τελωνῶν, 
Luke 5:29; 
μαθητῶν, 
Luke 6:17; 
ὀνομάτων (see 
ὄνομα, 3), 
Acts 1:15; 
τῶν ἱερέων, 
Acts 6:7; the plural 
ὄχλοι, joined with 
λαοί and 
ἔθνη, in 
Revelation 17:15 seems to designate troops of men assembled together without order. (The 
Sept. chiefly for 
הָמון.) 
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