ὄχλους

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ὄχλους

   O-khlous

   crowds
2. sentence🔊 ὡς δὲ ἔγνωσαν οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς Θεσσαλονίκης Ἰουδαῖοι ὅτι καὶ ἐν τῇ Βεροίᾳ κατηγγέλη ὑπὸ τοῦ Παύλου ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ ἦλθον κἀκεῖ σαλεύοντες καὶ ταράσσοντες τοὺς ὄχλους

   hōs de EG-nō-san hoi a-PO tês the-sa-lo-NI-kês iou-da-IOI HO-ti kai en têi be-ro-I-a ka-tēng-GE-lē hy-PO tou PAU-lou ho LO-gos tou the-OU ÊL-thon kak-EI sa-LEU-on-tes kai ta-RAS-son-tes tous O-khlous

   when but they learned the from of the Thessalonica Jews that also in the Berea was proclaimed by the Paul the word of the God they came there also agitating and stirring up the crowds

Exegesis

The accusative phrase tous ochlous {τοὺς ὄχλους | toùs óchlous} identifies the crowds as the direct object of this agitation. In translation, the temporal clause is preserved with “when,” the ḥoti-clause becomes an embedded “that”-clause after “learned/found out,” and the participial chain is rendered as coordinated finite verb phrases (“agitating and troubling,” “shaking up and unsettling”) to express ongoing disruptive activity in natural English syntax while maintaining the Greek sequence of learning, coming, and stirring up opposition.