Luke 18:36

ἀκούσας δὲ ὄχλου διαπορευομένου ἐπυνθάνετο τί εἴη τοῦτο
And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.
Word Reference
Original Word Definitions
ἀκούσας
G191 V-AAP-NSM
akouō
to hear (in various senses)
  • to be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf
    • "to hear
    • to attend to, consider what is or has been said
      • "to understand, perceive the sense of what is said
    to hear something
    • to perceive by the ear what is announced in one's presence
      • "to get by hearing learn"a thing comes to one's ears, to find out, learn"to give ear to a teaching or a teacher"to comprehend, to understand
δὲ
G1161 CONJ
de
but, and, etc
  • but, moreover, and, etc.
ὄχλου
G3793 N-GSM
ochlos
a throng (as borne along); by implication, the rabble; by extension, a class of people; figuratively, a riot
  • a crowd
    • a casual collection of people
      • a multitude of men who have flocked together in some place
        • "a throng
      a multitude
      • the common people, as opposed to the rulers and leading men
        • "with contempt: the ignorant multitude, the populace
      a multitude
      • the multitudes, seems to denote troops of people gathered together without order
διαπορευομένου
G1279 V-PNP-GSM
diaporeuomai
to travel through
  • to cause to pass through a place
    • "to carry across"to journey through a place, go through"to travel through
ἐπυνθάνετο
G4441 V-INI-3S
pynthanomai
to question, i.e., ascertain by inquiry (as a matter of information merely; and thus differing from G2065, which properly means a request as a favor; and from G0154, which is strictly a demand for something due; as well as from G2212, which implies a search for something hidden; and from G1189, which involves the idea of urgent need); by implication, to learn (by casual intelligence)
  • to enquire, ask
    • "to ascertain, by enquiry
τί
G5101 I-NSN
tis
an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)
  • who, which, what
εἴη
G1498
eiēn
might (could, would, or should) be
  • to be, to exist, to happen, to be present
τοῦτο
G5124
touto
that thing
  • that (thing), this (thing)

ἀκούσας δὲ ὄχλου διαπορευομένου ἐπυνθάνετο τί εἴη τοῦτο
36
And hearing the multitude pass by, he asked what it meant.
Cross References

Matthew 21:10

καὶ εἰσελθόντος αὐτοῦ εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα ἐσείσθη πᾶσα ἡ πόλις λέγουσα Τίς ἐστιν οὗτος
10
And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?

Luke 15:26

καὶ προσκαλεσάμενος ἕνα τῶν παίδων αὐτοῦ ἐπυνθάνετο τί εἴη ταῦτα
26
And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.
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