2001 Translation

OCHLOS, ochlos

Sounds Like: OCH-los

Translations: crowd, a crowd, multitude, a multitude, mob, a mob

From the root: ὈΧΛΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a large gathering of people, a multitude, or a crowd. It can sometimes carry the connotation of a common or unorganized group, or even a disorderly mob. It is typically used to describe a large number of people gathered together, often in a public space.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3793 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 6:1

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 1:5
• Book 5 — 1:48
• Book 6 — 5:81
• Book 7 — 9:196, 11:287
• Book 8 — 1:2
• Book 10 — 7:103
• Book 16 — 2:62
• Book 17 — 6:156, 8:204
• Book 18 — 6:171
• Book 19 — 1:130

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Three — 6:17, 10:14, 10:81
• Book Six — 8:4

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 27:133, 47:243

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Joshua — 6:13
• 2 Samuel — 15:22
• Ezra (Alpha) — 5:62, 8:88
• Ezra (Beta) — 3:12
• Nehemiah — 4:10
• Jeremiah — 39:24
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 11:11
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 14:30

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 9:25, 13:2, 20:29, 20:31, 21:8, 26:47
• Mark — 2:13, 3:20, 3:32, 4:1, 5:21, 5:24, 9:15, 9:25, 11:18, 12:37, 12:41, 14:43, 15:8
• Luke — 5:29, 6:17, 6:19, 7:11, 7:12, 8:40, 9:37, 13:17, 22:47
• John — 6:2, 6:5, 6:22, 6:24, 7:20, 7:49, 12:9, 12:12, 12:17, 12:18, 12:29, 12:34
• Acts — 1:15, 6:7, 11:24, 16:22
• Revelation — 7:9

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ὈΧΛΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ὈΧΛΟΙ — crowds, multitudes, mobs
• ὈΧΛΟΥ — of a crowd, of the crowd, of a multitude, of the multitude, of a throng, of the throng

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