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