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Lexicon :: Strong's G3793 - ochlos

Aa
ὄχλος
Transliteration
ochlos (Key)
Pronunciation
okh'los
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From a derivative of ἔχω (G2192) (meaning a vehicle)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:582,750

Trench's Synonyms: xcviii. λαός, ἕθνος, δῆμος, ὄχλος.

Strong’s Definitions

ὄχλος óchlos, okh'los; from a derivative of G2192 (meaning a vehicle); a throng (as borne along); by implication, the rabble; by extension, a class of people; figuratively, a riot:—company, multitude, number (of people), people, press.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 175x

The KJV translates Strong's G3793 in the following manner: people (82x), multitude (79x), press (5x), company (7x), number of people (1x), number (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 175x
The KJV translates Strong's G3793 in the following manner: people (82x), multitude (79x), press (5x), company (7x), number of people (1x), number (1x).

  1. a crowd

    1. a casual collection of people

      1. a multitude of men who have flocked together in some place

      2. a throng

    2. a multitude

      1. the common people, as opposed to the rulers and leading men

      2. with contempt: the ignorant multitude, the populace

    3. a multitude

      1. the multitudes, seems to denote troops of people gathered together without order

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὄχλος óchlos, okh'los; from a derivative of G2192 (meaning a vehicle); a throng (as borne along); by implication, the rabble; by extension, a class of people; figuratively, a riot:—company, multitude, number (of people), people, press.
STRONGS G3793:
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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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
4:25; 5:1; 7:28; 8:1; 9:8; 9:23; 9:25; 9:33; 9:36; 11:7; 12:15; 12:23; 12:46; 13:2; 13:2; 13:34; 13:36; 14:5; 14:14; 15:10; 15:30; 15:33; 19:2; 20:29; 21:8; 21:26; 26:47
Mark
2:4; 2:13; 3:9; 4:1; 5:21; 5:24; 6:33; 6:34; 7:14; 8:1; 9:14; 9:15; 10:1; 10:46; 11:18; 12:12; 12:37; 14:43
Luke
3:7; 3:10; 4:42; 5:1; 5:3; 5:15; 5:19; 5:29; 6:17; 7:9; 7:11; 7:12; 8:4; 8:42; 8:45; 9:11; 9:37; 9:38; 11:14; 11:27; 12:1; 12:13; 13:17; 14:25; 19:3; 19:39; 22:6
John
5:13; 6:2; 6:5; 6:22; 6:24; 7:12; 7:12; 7:20; 7:32; 7:49; 7:49; 12:9; 12:12
Acts
1:15; 6:7; 8:6; 11:24; 11:26; 13:45; 14:11; 14:13; 14:14; 14:18; 17:8; 17:13; 19:26; 21:27; 21:34; 21:35; 24:12; 24:18
Revelation
17:15; 19:1; 19:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3793 matches the Greek ὄχλος (ochlos),
which occurs 175 times in 170 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:9 - Jesus instructed his disciples to have a boat ready so the crowd would not crush him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:20 - One time Jesus entered a house, and the crowds began to gather again. Soon he and his disciples couldn’t even find time to eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 3:32 - There was a crowd sitting around Jesus, and someone said, “Your mother and your brothers[fn] are outside asking for you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:1 - Once again Jesus began teaching by the lakeshore. A very large crowd soon gathered around him, so he got into a boat. Then he sat in the boat while all the people remained on the shore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 4:36 - So they took Jesus in the boat and started out, leaving the crowds behind (although other boats followed).

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:21 - Jesus got into the boat again and went back to the other side of the lake, where a large crowd gathered around him on the shore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:24 - Jesus went with him, and all the people followed, crowding around him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:27 - She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:30 - Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my robe?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:31 - His disciples said to him, “Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, ‘Who touched me?’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:33 - But many people recognized them and saw them leaving, and people from many towns ran ahead along the shore and got there ahead of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:34 - Jesus saw the huge crowd as he stepped from the boat, and he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 6:45 - Immediately after this, Jesus insisted that his disciples get back into the boat and head across the lake to Bethsaida, while he sent the people home.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:14 - Then Jesus called to the crowd to come and hear. “All of you listen,” he said, “and try to understand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:17 - Then Jesus went into a house to get away from the crowd, and his disciples asked him what he meant by the parable he had just used.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:33 - Jesus led him away from the crowd so they could be alone. He put his fingers into the man’s ears. Then, spitting on his own fingers, he touched the man’s tongue.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:1 - About this time another large crowd had gathered, and the people ran out of food again. Jesus called his disciples and told them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:2 - “I feel sorry for these people. They have been here with me for three days, and they have nothing left to eat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:6 - So Jesus told all the people to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves, thanked God for them, and broke them into pieces. He gave them to his disciples, who distributed the bread to the crowd.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:34 - Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:14 - When they returned to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd surrounding them, and some teachers of religious law were arguing with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:15 - When the crowd saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with awe, and they ran to greet him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:17 - One of the men in the crowd spoke up and said, “Teacher, I brought my son so you could heal him. He is possessed by an evil spirit that won’t let him talk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:25 - When Jesus saw that the crowd of onlookers was growing, he rebuked the evil[fn] spirit. “Listen, you spirit that makes this boy unable to hear and speak,” he said. “I command you to come out of this child and never enter him again!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:1 - Then Jesus left Capernaum and went down to the region of Judea and into the area east of the Jordan River. Once again crowds gathered around him, and as usual he was teaching them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 10:46 - Then they reached Jericho, and as Jesus and his disciples left town, a large crowd followed him. A blind beggar named Bartimaeus (son of Timaeus) was sitting beside the road.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 11:18 - When the leading priests and teachers of religious law heard what Jesus had done, they began planning how to kill him. But they were afraid of him because the people were so amazed at his teaching.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:12 - The religious leaders[fn] wanted to arrest Jesus because they realized he was telling the story against them—they were the wicked farmers. But they were afraid of the crowd, so they left him and went away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:37 - Since David himself called the Messiah ‘my Lord,’ how can the Messiah be his son?” The large crowd listened to him with great delight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:41 - Jesus sat down near the collection box in the Temple and watched as the crowds dropped in their money. Many rich people put in large amounts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:43 - And immediately, even as Jesus said this, Judas, one of the twelve disciples, arrived with a crowd of men armed with swords and clubs. They had been sent by the leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the elders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:8 - The crowd went to Pilate and asked him to release a prisoner as usual.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:11 - But at this point the leading priests stirred up the crowd to demand the release of Barabbas instead of Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:15 - So to pacify the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. He ordered Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip, then turned him over to the Roman soldiers to be crucified.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:7 - When the crowds came to John for baptism, he said, “You brood of snakes! Who warned you to flee God’s coming wrath?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:10 - The crowds asked, “What should we do?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:42 - Early the next morning Jesus went out to an isolated place. The crowds searched everywhere for him, and when they finally found him, they begged him not to leave them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:1 - One day as Jesus was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee,[fn] great crowds pressed in on him to listen to the word of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:3 - Stepping into one of the boats, Jesus asked Simon,[fn] its owner, to push it out into the water. So he sat in the boat and taught the crowds from there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:15 - But despite Jesus’ instructions, the report of his power spread even faster, and vast crowds came to hear him preach and to be healed of their diseases.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:19 - but they couldn’t reach him because of the crowd. So they went up to the roof and took off some tiles. Then they lowered the sick man on his mat down into the crowd, right in front of Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:29 - Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi’s fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:17 - When they came down from the mountain, the disciples stood with Jesus on a large, level area, surrounded by many of his followers and by the crowds. There were people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and from as far north as the seacoasts of Tyre and Sidon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 6:19 - Everyone tried to touch him, because healing power went out from him, and he healed everyone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:9 - When Jesus heard this, he was amazed. Turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, “I tell you, I haven’t seen faith like this in all Israel!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:11 - Soon afterward Jesus went with his disciples to the village of Nain, and a large crowd followed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:12 - A funeral procession was coming out as he approached the village gate. The young man who had died was a widow’s only son, and a large crowd from the village was with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:24 - After John’s disciples left, Jesus began talking about him to the crowds. “What kind of man did you go into the wilderness to see? Was he a weak reed, swayed by every breath of wind?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:4 - One day Jesus told a story in the form of a parable to a large crowd that had gathered from many towns to hear him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 8:19 - Then Jesus’ mother and brothers came to see him, but they couldn’t get to him because of the crowd.

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