Vocabulary Form
ὄχλος, -ου, ὁ
Definition

crowd, multitude

Erasmian
Modern
Root
ὀχλο
Frequency
175
GK
4063
Cognates

Ochlocracy is mob rule.

Mnemonics

When you are in a crowd, you are close.

Biblical Concordance

Mark 11:18 And the ruling priests and the scribes heard of this and began seeking how they could destroy him, for they feared him, because all the people (ochlos | ὄχλος | nom sg masc) were impressed by his teaching.
Mark 11:32 But if we say, ‘From (they were afraid of the people (ochlon | ὄχλον | acc sg masc), for everyone considered John was truly a prophet).
Mark 12:12 And they were seeking to arrest him, but feared the people (ochlon | ὄχλον | acc sg masc), for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them. So they left him and went away.
Mark 12:37 David himself calls him ‘Lord,’ so how can he be his son?” And the large crowd (ochlos | ὄχλος | nom sg masc) was listening to him with delight.
Mark 12:41 And taking a seat opposite the treasury, he was watching how the people (ochlos | ὄχλος | nom sg masc) were putting money into the offering box. Many rich people were putting in large sums.
Mark 14:43 And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas, one of the twelve, appeared, and with him a crowd (ochlos | ὄχλος | nom sg masc) with swords and clubs, from the ruling priests and the scribes and the elders.
Mark 15:8 And coming up, the crowd (ochlos | ὄχλος | nom sg masc) began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them.
Mark 15:11 But the ruling priests stirred up the crowd (ochlon | ὄχλον | acc sg masc) so that Pilate would release Barabbas instead.
Mark 15:15 So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd (ochlō | ὄχλῳ | dat sg masc), released to them Barabbas; and having scourged Jesus, he handed him over to be crucified.
Luke 3:7 So he said to the crowds (ochlois | ὄχλοις | dat pl masc) that were coming out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Luke 3:10 The crowds (ochloi | ὄχλοι | nom pl masc) asked him saying, “What, then, shall we do?”
Luke 4:42 When daylight came he left and went to a deserted place. And the crowds (ochloi | ὄχλοι | nom pl masc) were looking for him. They came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them,
Luke 5:1 It happened that, when the crowd (ochlon | ὄχλον | acc sg masc) was pressing around him and listening to the word of God, that he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret
Luke 5:3 He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds (ochlous | ὄχλους | acc pl masc) from the boat.
Luke 5:15 Then the word about him spread even more, and large crowds (ochloi | ὄχλοι | nom pl masc) would come together to hear him and to be healed of their diseases.
Luke 5:19 But not finding any way to bring him in on account of the crowd (ochlon | ὄχλον | acc sg masc), they went up on the roof and lowered him, along with the stretcher, through the tiles into the midst, in front of Jesus.
Luke 5:29 And Levi made a great banquet for him in his house, and there was a great crowd (ochlos | ὄχλος | nom sg masc) of tax collectors and others who were reclining at table with them.
Luke 6:17 Then, coming down with them from the mountain, he took his stand on a level place. A large crowd (ochlos | ὄχλος | nom sg masc) of disciples was there along with a great number of people from all over Israel and Judea and from the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon.
Luke 6:19 And all the crowd (ochlos | ὄχλος | nom sg masc) was trying to touch him, because power was coming out from him and healing them all.
Luke 7:9 When Jesus heard these things, he admired him. Turning to the crowd (ochlō | ὄχλῳ | dat sg masc) that was following him, he said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.”
Luke 7:11 It happened soon afterward that Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd (ochlos | ὄχλος | nom sg masc) went with him.
Luke 7:12 As Jesus approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out — the only son of his mother (she was a widow). A large crowd (ochlos | ὄχλος | nom sg masc) was with her.
Luke 7:24 When John’s messengers left, Jesus began to speak to the crowds (ochlous | ὄχλους | acc pl masc) about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to look at? A reed being shaken by the wind?
Luke 8:4 As a large crowd (ochlou | ὄχλου | gen sg masc) was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from one town after another, he spoke using a parable.
Luke 8:19 The mother of Jesus and his brothers came to him, but they were not able to get near him because of the crowd (ochlon | ὄχλον | acc sg masc).