Multitude
πλῆθοςStrong’s G4128plēthos
Appears in 32 verses of the New Testament
In short
Plēthos is the Greek word usually translated “multitude”, “multitudes” and “number”. It appears in 32 verses of the New Testament.
“But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,”
Meaning
Usually translated “multitude”, “multitudes” and “number”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- multitude 17
- a multitude 9
- the multitude 1
- multitudes 1
- number 1
- crowd 1
- quantity 1
- in multitude 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 17
- Luke 8
- Mark 2
- John 2
- Hebrews 1
- James 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Mark 3:8And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
- Luke 1:10And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
- Luke 2:13And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
- Luke 5:6And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
- Luke 6:17And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
- Luke 8:37Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
Greek dictionary
πλῆθος plēthos · multitude
πλῆθος, -ους, τό [in LXX chiefly for רֹב, also for הָמוֹן, etc. ;] 1. a great number, a multitude; (a) of things : ἰχθύων, Luk.5:6, Jhn.21:6; φρυγάνων, Act.28:3; ἁμαρτιίῶν, Jas.5:20, 1Pe.4:8; τ. πλήθει, in multitude, Heb.11:12; (b) of persons: Act.21:22 (WH, R, om.); with genitive, Luk.2:13, Jhn.5:3, Act.5:14; π. πολύ (πολὺ π.), Mrk.3:7-8; id. with genitive, Luk.6:17 23:27, Act.14:1 17:4 …
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.