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Strong's #3793: ochlos (pronounced okh'los)

from a derivative of 2192 (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.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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ochlos

1) a crowd

1a) a casual collection of people

1a1) a multitude of men who have flocked together in some place

1a2) a throng

1b) a multitude

1b1) the common people, as opposed to the rulers and leading men

1b2) with contempt: the ignorant multitude, the populace

1c) a multitude

1c1) the multitudes, seems to denote troops of people gathered together without order

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from a derivative of G2192 (meaning a vehicle)

Citing in TDNT: 5:582, 750




Usage:

This word is used 177 times:

Acts 1:15: "disciples, and said, (the number of names together were"
Acts 6:7: "greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the"
Acts 8:6: "And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake,"
Acts 11:24: "of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord."
Acts 11:26: "and taught much people. And"
Acts 11:26: "and taught much people. And"
Acts 13:45: "Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against"
Acts 14:11: "And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up"
Acts 14:13: "have done sacrifice with the people."
Acts 14:14: "and ran in among the people, crying out,"
Acts 14:18: "scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them."
Acts 14:19: "who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew"
Acts 16:22: "And the multitude rose up together against them: and the"
Acts 17:8: "And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard"
Acts 17:13: "thither also, and stirred up the people."
Acts 19:26: "hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no"
Acts 19:33: "Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward."
Acts 19:35: "town clerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus,"
Acts 21:27: "stirred up all the people, and laid hands on"
Acts 21:34: "some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and"
Acts 21:35: "the violence of the people."
Acts 24:12: "any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the"
Acts 24:18: "the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult."
Revelation 7:9: "and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number,"
Revelation 17:15: "are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues."
Revelation 19:1: "a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia;"
Revelation 19:6: "as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many"









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