What does τάραχος (tárachos) mean in the Bible?
τάραχος (tárachos): Tumultuous confusion and agitation spreading through a crowd, often with social disruption
Greek · G5017
τάραχος
Disturbance
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τάραχοςG5017
Pronunciationtárachos
What does τάραχος (tárachos) mean in the Bible?
τάραχος (tárachos): Tumultuous confusion and agitation spreading through a crowd, often with social disruption
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G5017?
The BSB source-word alignment has 2 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include commotion (1), disturbance (1).
Where does τάραχος (tárachos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 12:18. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (2).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Itcommotion1×Acts 12:18
disturbance1×Acts 19:23
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned rowActs 12:18
Aligned rows2
Books represented1
Acts2
Source forms
τάραχος2xtarachosActs 12:18, Acts 19:23
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular2xActs 12:18, Acts 19:23
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Tumultuous confusion and agitation spreading through a crowd, often with social disruption
Strong'sG5017
Lexical occurrences2 versesGreek text appearances2 timesWord forms1 form2 referencesVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
disturbance
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
2 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 12:18Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
τάραχοςtaracov
a disturbance, commotion
Read verseActs 19:23Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
τάραχοςtaracov
a disturbance, commotion
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms2Case patternNominative (2)Number patternSingular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · MasculineActs 12:18 · Acts 19:232×
Word Origins
τάραχος is built from this root: