Acts 21:36:4Acts.21.36.W4TAB
πλῆθος
plêthos
“crowd”
- Transliteration
- PLÊ-thos
- Extended
- PLÊ-thohs
- IPA
- /ˈplɛː.tʰos/
Meaning by language
- English
- crowd
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Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Theta | th — as in thin | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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The word
Word in context
- word
PLÊ-thos
- sentence
ê-ko-LOU-thei gar to PLÊ-thos tou la-OU KRA-dzo-ntes AI-re au-TON
Exegesis
The noun phrase to plethos tou laou {τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ λαοῦ | to plê-thos tou la-oû} ‘the multitude of the people’ functions as the subject, with a neuter collective noun defined by a genitive.
Root and etymology
πληθ-
“multitude, fullness, great number”
In context — Acts 21:36
For the multitude of the people pressed on after him, crying out , “Take him away!”
About this coordinate
Acts 21:36:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Acts 21:36, so the Greek word πλῆθος (plêthos) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written Acts.21.36.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.21.36.W4.S1) and character.