Greek noun (neuter) · G4128
πλῆθος
plethosplay'-thos
a great number, a multitude; Of persons, with art., the whole number, the multitude (in Plat., Thuc., Xen., a
31 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: plēthos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4128is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4128
a fulness, i.e. a large number, throng, populace
The King James renders it: bundle, company, multitude.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
plethos is rendered "a great number, a multitude; Of persons, with art., the whole number, the multitude (in Plat., Thuc., Xen., a". It stands 31 times in the Greek text, across seven books.
- Sixteen of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a great number, a multitude".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 3:7So Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea, accompanied by a large crowd from Galilee, Judea,
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
So Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea, accompanied by a large crowd from Galilee, Judea,
Mark 3:7πλῆθος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: a great number, a multitude, and Of persons, with art., the whole number, the multitude (in Plat., Thuc., Xen., a.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a great number, a multitude__(a) of things : ἰχθύων | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 5:6When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to tear. |
| Of persons, with art., the whole number, the multitude (in Plat., Thuc., Xen., a | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 1:10And at the hour of the incense offering, the whole congregation was praying outside. |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 31, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πλῆθος25
- πλήθους4
- πλήθει1
- πλήθη1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular18N-NSN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular7N-ASN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular4N-GSN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular1N-DSN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural1N-NPN
Mark
two uses
So Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea, accompanied by a large crowd from Galilee, Judea,
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a multitude
Jerusalem, Idumea, the region beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon. The large crowd came to Him when they heard what great things He was doing.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: A multitude
Luke
eight uses
And at the hour of the incense offering, the whole congregation was praying outside.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
And suddenly there appeared with the angel a great multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying:
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a multitude
When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to tear.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a multitude
Then Jesus came down with them and stood on a level place. A large crowd of His disciples was there, along with a great number of people from all over Judea, Jerusalem, and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a multitude
Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to depart from them, because great fear had taken hold of them. So He got into the boat and started back.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
And as He approached the descent from the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of disciples began to praise God joyfully in a loud voice for all the miracles they had seen:
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
Then the whole council rose and led Jesus away to Pilate.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
A great number of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for Him.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
John
two uses
On these walkways lay a great number of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a multitude
He told them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it there, and they were unable to haul it in because of the great number of fish.
- πλήθουςplethousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
Acts
sixteen uses
And when this sound rang out, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking his own language.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
The multitude of believers was one in heart and soul. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they owned.
- πλήθουςplethousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: the multitude
Yet more and more believers were brought to the Lord—large numbers of both men and women.
- πλήθηplethenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: multitudes
Crowds also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and all of them were healed.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
So the Twelve summoned all the disciples and said, “It is unacceptable for us to neglect the word of God in order to wait on tables.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, as well as Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.
- πλήθουςplethousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
At Iconium, Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue, where they spoke so well that a great number of Jews and Greeks believed.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: number
The people of the city were divided. Some sided with the Jews, and others with the apostles.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
The whole assembly fell silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describing the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they assembled the congregation and delivered the letter.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
Some of the Jews were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, along with a large number of God-fearing Greeks and quite a few leading women.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a multitude
But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
- πλήθουςplethousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
For the crowd that followed him kept shouting, “Away with him!”
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
As soon as he had said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: crowd
Then Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man. The whole Jewish community has petitioned me about him, both here and in Jerusalem, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: multitude
Paul gathered a bundle of sticks, and as he laid them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself to his hand.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: quantity
Hebrews
one use
And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
- πλήθειpletheinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: in multitude
James
one use
consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a multitude
1 Peter
one use
Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
- πλῆθοςplethosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a multitude
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.