UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: crowd, multitude

Semantic entry: 11.1

Semantic domains: Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes

Subdomains: General

Definition: a casual non-membership group of people, fairly large in size and assembled for whatever purpose{N:001}

Notes: In a number of languages there is no term corresponding to ‘crowd.’ One may, however, usually speak of such a group of people as ‘many people’ or ‘many men and women.’ Depending on the context, it may besary to indicate some relative difference in size, for example, ‘very large crowd’ or ‘many, many people.’ If the crowd is relatively small, one may sometimes speak of ‘just some people.’|This word is found as a variant reading only: πᾶς ἐπὶ τῶν πλοίων ὁ ὅμιλος ‘all the crowd in ships’ RV REV 18:17 · LV REV 18:17 · Read together REV 18:17 (apparatus).