θορυβέω
to disturb
‘to disturb’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Present-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2350 appears — 5 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
Acts 2 verses
- Acts 17:5 ἐθορύβουν impf act ind 3pl But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
- Acts 20:10 θορυβεῖσθε pres pass impv 2pl Paul went down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said, "Don't be troubled, for his life is in him."
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
θορυβεω — transliterated thorybéō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to disturb.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Its uses concentrate in Acts (40% of all occurrences). Debuting at Matthew 9:23, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2350 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 60%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 60%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Make ye this ado 1×, Making a noise 1×, Set all 1×
- American Standard Version: Make ye a tumult 1×, Making a tumult 1×, Set the 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: All this commotion 1×, Be alarmed 1×, Noisy 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Are you being disturbed 1×, Be troubled 1×, Being disturbed 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2350 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2350 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2350 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2350 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to make a noise or uproar, be turbulent
- to disturb, throw into confusion
Word origin
Derived from θορυβος (thórybos) (G2351) — tumult.
From G2351 ; to be in tumult that is disturb clamor : - make ado (a noise) trouble self set on an uproar.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G2350 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| θορυβεῖσθε thorybeîsthe | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | Mark 5:39 | 2 |
| θορυβάζῃ thorybázē | Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular | Luke 10:41 | 1 |
| θορυβούμενον thoryboúmenon | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 9:23 | 1 |
| ἐθορύβουν ethorýboun | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Acts 17:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2350, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word θορυβεω appears 3 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3 verses in 3 books.
- 3
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 3
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Judges 3:26 θορυβέω
- Daniel 8:17 θορυβέω
- Nahum 2:4 θορυβέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2350) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 3:26 θορυβέω Ehud escaped while they waited, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped to Seirah.
- Daniel 8:17 θορυβέω So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face: but he said to me, Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.
- Nahum 2:4 θορυβέω The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2350) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
