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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τάραχος G5017
Pronunciation tárachos
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 It commotion 1× Acts 12:18
disturbance 1× Acts 19:23
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Acts 12:18
Aligned rows 2
Books represented 1
Acts 2
Source forms
τάραχος 2x tarachos Acts 12:18, Acts 19:23
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular 2x Acts 12:18, Acts 19:23
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Tumultuous confusion and agitation spreading through a crowd, often with social disruption
Strong's G5017
Lexical occurrences 2 verses Greek text appearances 2 times Word forms 1 form 2 references Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
disturbance
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek 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 12:18 Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
τάραχος taracov
a disturbance, commotion
Read verse Acts 19:23 Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
τάραχος taracov
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 patterns 1 Aligned forms 2 Case pattern Nominative (2) Number pattern Singular (2)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Masculine Acts 12:18 · Acts 19:23 2×
Word Origins
τάραχος is built from this root:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain