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What Does “Throng” Mean in the Bible?

A great many people gathered together: a crowd.

A detail

  1. Careful: it is not a small group: it is a great crowd.

Where it appears in the Bible

Luke 1:10; Luke 5:3

What the Bible says

Luke 1:10

And all the multitude of the people was praying without, at the hour of incense.

Luke 5:3

And going into one of the ships that was Simon’s, he desired him to draw back a little from the land. And sitting he taught the multitudes out of the ship.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: Dictionary.com, “throng”

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