ὄχλος

ὄχλος, -ου, ὁ,

[in LXX for הָמוֹן (chiefly in Da TH), קָהָל ,חַיִל, etc. ;]

1. a moving crowd or multitude of persons, a throng: Matt 9,23, Mark 2,4, Luk 5,1, Joh 5,13, al.; pl., Matt 5,1, Mark 10,1, Luk 3,7, and freq.; ὄ. ἱκανός, Mark 10,46, al.; τοσοῦτος, Matt 15,33 οὐ μετ᾽ ὄχλου, ApG 24,18 ἄτερ ὄχλου, Luk 22,6 πᾶς ὁ ὄ., Matt 13,2, Mark 2,13, al.; ὄ. πολύς, Matt 20,29, Mark 5,21, al.; ὁ πολὺς ὄ. (ὄ. π.), the populace, the common people, Mark 12,37 (Swete, in l.; Field, Notes, 37), Joh 12,9 (Westc, in l.).

2. (As also cl., opposite to δῆμος, which see, and cf. Tr., Syn., §xcviii), the populace, the common people (cf. ὁ πολὺς ὄ., supr.), Matt 14,5; 21,26, Mark 12,12, Joh 7,12b; so with contempt (cl.), Joh 7,49, In a more general sense, a multitude: with genitive, ὀνομάτων (see: ὀ.), ApG 1,15 μαθητῶν, Luk 6,17, al.