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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