Quick Definition
a disturbance, commotion
Strong's Definition
a disturbance, i.e. (popular) tumult
Derivation: masculine from G5015 (ταράσσω);
KJV Usage: stir
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τάραχος, ταραχου, ὁ (παράσσω), commotion, stir (of mind): Act_12:18; tumult (A. V. stir), Act_19:23. (The Sept.; Xenophon, Plutarch, Lucian).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τάραχος tarachos 2x
agitation, commotion; consternation, terror, Act_12:18 ;
excitement, tumult, public contention, Act_19:23
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
τάραχος , -ου , ὁ
( < ταράσσω ),
[in LXX for H4103 , etc.;]
later form of ταραχή ( Xen ., al. ; v. Thackeray, Gr. , 159): Act_12:18 ; Act_19:23 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τάραχος [page 626]
a late form of ταραχή , is found in Act_12:18 ; Act_19:23 , where it is masculine. For exx. of τὸ τάραχος in the LXX see Thackeray Gr . i. p. 159. According to Hobart (p. 93) the word is common in medical writers. Linde, Epicurus p. 24, quotes three passages from Epicurus for τάραχος (masc.) = disturbance, alarm, and notes two occurrences of the form ταραχή . See also Rutherford NP , p. 174.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
τάραχος τά^ρα^χος, ὁ, [Etym: = ταραχή, Xen. ]
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
τάραχος, -ου, ὁ
(ταράσσω), [in LXX for מְהוּמָה, etc. ;]
later form of ταραχή (Xen., al.; see Thackeray, Gr., 159): Act.12:18 19:23.†
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