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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - ὄχλος

ὄχλος

G3793

Transliteration: óchlos

Pronunciation: okh'los

Definition: company


- Original: ὄχλος

- Transliteration: Ochlos

- Phonetic: okh'los

- Definition:

1. a crowd

a. a casual collection of people

1. a multitude of men who have flocked together in some place

2. a throng

b. a multitude

1. the common people, as opposed to the rulers and leading men

2. with contempt: the ignorant multitude, the populace

c. a multitude

1. the multitudes, seems to denote troops of people gathered together without order

- Origin: from a derivative of G2192" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2192 (meaning a vehicle)

- TDNT entry: 14:42,8

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

- Strong's: From a derivative of G2192" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2192 (meaning a vehicle); a throng (as borne along); by implication the rabble; by extension a class of people; figuratively a riot: - company multitude number (of people) people press.


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