Lexicon ochleó: to disturb, trouble Original Word: ὀχλέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ochleó Phonetic Spelling: (okh-leh'-o) Short Definition: I trouble, torment, worry Definition: I trouble, torment, worry, vex. HELPS word-Studies 3791 oxléō (from 3793/oxlos, "a crowd") – properly, to mob; (figuratively) to push with mob-like force ("forcing along"), exercising torrent-like momentum (like the force of a pressing crowd). 3791/oxléō ("to trouble, confuse") refers to pressing someone, by carrying them along with the torrential force of a mob. 3791 (oxléō) is used twice in the NT (Lk 6:18; Ac 5:16). Both times it refers to unclean spirits (demons) exerting an overwhelming sense of vexation – i.e. a dominating influence with the force of a multi-faceted momentum, carrying someone along. That is, like a tumultuous crowd pushing the entrapped passer-by to its destination. [3791 (oxléō) is literally "having the effect of an uncontrolled mob" which brings its overwhelming confusion (disturbance).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ochlosDefinitionto disturb, trouble NASB Translationafflicted (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3791: ὀχλέωὀχλέω, ὄχλῳ: present passive participle ὀχλουμενος; ( ὄχλος); properly, to excite a mob against one; (in Homer (Iliad 21, 261) to disturb, roll away); universally, to trouble, molest ( τινα, Herodotus 5, 41; Aeschylus, others); absolutely, to be in confusion, in an uproar (3Macc. 5:41); passive to be vexed, molested, troubled: by demons, Luke 6:18, R G L (where T Tr WH ἐνοχλούμενοι — the like variation of text in Herodian, 6, 3, 4); Acts 5:16; Tobit 6:8 (7); Acta Thomae § 12. (Compare: ἐνοχλέω, παρενοχλέω.)
Strong's to trouble, afflict From ochlos; to mob, i.e. (by implication) to harass -- vex. see GREEK ochlos |
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