πλῆθος plēthos

Greek word for “multitude” · Strong’s G4128 · used 31 times in 31 verses

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Meaning

πλῆθος, -ους, τό; 1. a great number, a multitude;

How it is translated

Glosses given for plēthos in context, with how often each is used:

• multitude 27
• multitudes 1
• number 1
• crowd 1
• quantity 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Mark 3 (2), Luke 23 (2), Acts 5 (2), Acts 6 (2), Acts 14 (2), Acts 15 (2), Luke 1 (1), Luke 2 (1), Luke 5 (1), Luke 6 (1)

Forms

• πλῆθος 25
• πλήθους 4
• πλήθη 1
• πλήθει 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with plēthos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἅπας hapas “all” 6
• πολύς polus “much” 7
• μαθητής mathētēs “disciple” 5
• λαός laos “a people” 4
• τε te “and/both” 4
• καλύπτω kaluptō “to cover” 2
• αἰνέω aineō “to praise” 2
• ἀκολουθέω akoloutheō “to follow” 3
• Σιδών Sidōn “Sidon” 2
• σχίζω schizō “to split” 2
• Τύρος Turos “Tyre” 2
• δίκτυον diktuon “net” 2

Key verses

The verses using plēthos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Mark 3:7 — But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judæa,
• Luke 2:13 — And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
• Luke 8:37 — Then 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…
• Luke 19:37 — And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud…
• Acts 4:32 — And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own;…
• Acts 5:14 — And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
• Acts 6:5 — And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and…
• Acts 14:1 — And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of…
• Acts 17:4 — And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
• Acts 19:9 — But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing…
• Hebrews 11:12 — Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore…
• 1 Peter 4:8 — And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.