Dictionaries :: Concourse

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Concourse:

kon'-kors (hamah, "to hum," "to make a noise"; sustrophe, "a turning" or "twisting together"): Hamah, usually translated by some word signifying "sound" is rendered "concourse" in Pr 1:21 (perhaps from the noise made by people thronging and talking together; compare 1Ki 1:41, "uproar"), "She (wisdom) crieth in the chief place of concourse," the Revised Version, margin, Hebrew "at the head of the noisy (streets)"; sustrophe is translated "concourse" (Ac 19:40), a riotous crowd. Compare Judith 10:18.

King James Dictionary

Concourse: A Gathering; a Crowd of People.

For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this CONCOURSE. And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly. (Acts 19:40-41)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Concourse:

"a turning together" (sun, "with," trepo, "to turn"), signifies

(a) that which is rolled together; hence

(b) a dense mass of people, concourse, Act 19:40.
See BANDED.