Quick Definition
ὀχλέω v. I trouble, torment, worry
Strong's Definition
to mob, i.e. (by implication) to harass
Derivation: from G3793 (ὄχλος);
KJV Usage: vex
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | ἐνοχλέω · ὀχλοποιέω · ὄχλος · παρενοχλέω
22.24 · Trouble, Hardship, Relief, Favorable Circumstances · Cause Trouble, Hardship
to afflict, to cause suffering to cause hardship by continual annoyance
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ὀχλέω, -ὦ : pres. pass. ptcp. ὀχλούμενος : (ὄχλος) ; prop. to excite a mob against one; [in Hom. (Il. 21, 261) to disturb, roll away]; univ. to trouble, molest, (τινά, Hdt. 5, 41; Aeschyl., al.); absol. to be in confusion, in an uproar, (3 Mace. v. 41); pass. to be vexed, molested, troubled: by demons, Lk. vi. 18 R G L (where T Tr WH eévoyd., —the like variation of text in Hdian. 6, 3,4); Acts v. 16; Tob. vi. 8 (7); Acta Thomae §12. [Comp.: ev, mapεν-οχλέω. |
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ὀχλέω ochleō 1x
pr. to mob; to disturb, trouble, Acts 5:16*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** ὀχλέω, -ῶ
(< ὄχλος), [in LXX: To 6:7, III Mac 5:41*;]
to move, disturb; hence, generally, to trouble, vex: pass., Ac 5:16 (act. absol., = pass., to be in a tumult, III Mac 5.41; cf. ἐν-, παρ-εν-οχλέω, and v. MM, xviii).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ὀχλέω. While there may be traces of a technical medical use of this word in Ac 5!® (see Knowling in EG7 ad /., and cf. Tob 68), there is ample evidence that the word had come to be used quite generaily in the vernacular, cf. e.g. P Fay Ostr 45 (i/A.D.) (= Fayim Towns, p. 331) μὴ Sxde (7. ὄχλει) τοὺς ZapBaros, ‘‘don’t worry the people (or ‘sons’?) of ". r οχλοποίεω Sambas’’ (Edd.), P Oxy II. φόοἱ! 4 (A.D. 57) ἐὰν δύνῃ ἐρωτηθεὶς ὄχλησον Διόσκορον καὶ ἔκπραξον αὐτὸν τὸ χειρόγραφον, ‘‘if you can, please worry Dioscorus and exact from him his bond” (Edd.), 7. XII. 1481® (early ii/A.D.) μὴ ὀχλοῦ δὲ πέμπειν τι ἡμῖν, ‘do not trouble to send me anything,” 76. I. 1217? (iii/A.D.) τοὺς τέκτονες (= —as) μὴ ἀφῇς ὅλως ἀργῆσε' ὄχλει αὐτοῖς, ‘‘don’t allow the carpenters to be altogether idle ; worry them” (Edd.), BGU 111. 82674 (ii/iii A.D.) ἐὰν ὀχληθῶ ὑπὸ τῶν πρα[κτόρων ?, P Tand r14f (iii/A.D.) ὀχλεῖ μοι δῖλα ὁ Tpwldos. . . ἵνα μὴ οὕτως ὀχληθῶ, the late P Gren II, 927 (vi/vii A.D.) ὅπως kal ἡμεῖς εὕρωμεν μετὰ παρρησίας ὀχλῆσαι ὑμῖν περὶ ὧν χρεία, and from the inscrr. Οὐ 15 2628 (Syria-iii/A.D.) μηδὲ ἐπιχειροῦντος ἢ ὀχλοῦντος προφάσει παροχῆς καὶ τέλους. For the subst. ὄχλησις see P Oxy ΧΙ]. 14915 (early iv/A.D.) θαρρῶ... ὅτι ὄχλησις ἐὰν ἢ προίστασαι ἡμῶν, ‘I am confident that if there is any trouble you are supporting me” (Edd.), for the adj. ὀχληρός see P Oxy III. 5257 (early ii/A.D.) ὃ παράπλους τοῦ ᾿Ανταιοπολίτου ὀχληρότατός ἐστιν, ‘‘the voyage past the Antaeopolite nome is most troublesome,’ 26. XIV. 176017 (ii/A.D.) ἐὰν δὲ σοὶ ὀχληρὸν ἣν τοῦτο, and for the adv. ὀχληρῶς see BGU I. 340! (ap. 148-9) συνεχῶς kal dxAnpos. Cf. «Ὁ. ἐνοχλέω.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ὀχλέω (ochleō) — to disturb. ὀχλ-έω, (ὄχλος) move, disturb, ψηφῖδες ἅπασαι ὀχλεῦνται all the pebbles are rolled or swept away by the water, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II. generally, trouble, importune, with accusative, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; disturb citizens by false alarms, Aen. Tact.[Refs]to be troublesome or irksome, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀ. πρὸς αὐγάς impede the sight, [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.:—passive, to be troubled, ὑπέρ τινος [Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare ἐνοχλέω: later with infinitive, μὴ ὀχλοῦ δὲ πέμπειν τι ἡμῖν don't trouble to.., [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
III. in passive, to be crowded, ὁδὸς.. ἥτις οὐ πολὺ ὀχλεῖται [Refs 1st c.AD+]