Crowd
ὄχλοςStrong’s G3793ochlos
Appears in 171 verses of the New Testament
In short
Ochlos is the Greek word usually translated “crowd”, “crowds” and “multitude”. It appears in 171 verses of the New Testament.
“And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.”
Meaning
Usually translated “crowd”, “crowds” and “multitude”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- crowd 77
- crowds 53
- a crowd 26
- multitude 5
- people 3
- multitudes 2
- the crowd 2
- the crowds 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 48
- Luke 41
- Mark 37
- Acts 22
- John 19
- Revelation 4
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 5:1And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
- Matthew 7:28And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
- Matthew 8:1When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
- Matthew 8:18Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.
- Matthew 9:8But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.
- Matthew 9:23And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
All 171 verses, by book
- Matthew 48
- 4:255:17:288:18:189:89:239:259:339:3611:712:1512:2312:4613:213:3413:3614:514:1314:1414:1514:1914:2214:2315:1015:3015:3115:3215:3315:3515:3615:3917:1419:220:2920:3121:821:921:1121:2621:4622:3323:126:4726:5527:1527:2027:24
- Mark 37
- 2:42:133:93:203:324:14:365:215:245:275:305:316:336:346:457:147:177:338:18:28:68:349:149:159:179:2510:110:4611:1811:3212:1212:3712:4114:4315:815:1115:15
- Luke 41
- 3:73:104:425:15:35:155:195:296:176:197:97:117:127:248:48:198:408:428:459:119:129:169:189:379:3811:1411:2711:2912:112:1312:5413:1413:1714:2518:3619:319:3922:622:4723:423:48
Greek dictionary
ὄχλος ochlos · crowd
ὄχλος, -ου, ὁ, [in LXX for הָמוֹן (chiefly in Da TH), קָהָל ,חַיִל, etc. ;] 1. a moving crowd or multitude of persons, a throng: Mat.9:23, Mrk.2:4, Luk.5:1, Jhn.5:13, al.; pl., Mat.5:1, Mrk.10:1, Luk.3:7, and freq.; ὄ. ἱκανός, Mrk.10:46, al.; τοσοῦτος, Mat.15:33; οὐ μετ᾽ ὄχλου, Act.24:18; ἄτερ ὄχλου, Luk.22:6; πᾶς ὁ ὄ., Mat.13:2, Mrk.2:13, al.; ὄ. πολύς, Mat.20:29, Mrk.5:21, al.; ὁ πολὺς ὄ. (ὄ. π.), the populace, the common people, Mrk.12:37 (Swete, in l.; Field, Notes, 37), Jhn.12:9 (Westc, in l.). …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “multitude” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MUL'TITUDE, noun
[Latin multitudo, form multus, many.]
- The state of being many; a great number.
- A number collectively; the sum of many.
- A great number, indefinitely.
- A crowd or throng; the populace; applied to the populace when assembled in great numbers, and to the mass of men without reference to an assemblage.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.