Commotion

Usually translated “riot”, “uproar” and “commotion”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• a riot 2
• uproar 2
• a commotion 1
• an uproar 1
• tumult 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 3
• Matthew 2
• Mark 2

3 books in all.

• To make commotion (thorubeō)
• Commotion/plot (sustrophē)
• Disorder (akatastasia)

• Matthew 27:24When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
• Mark 5:38And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
• Mark 14:2But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
• Acts 20:1And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
• Acts 21:34And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.
• Acts 24:18Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “commotion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.