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Acts 21:31 - And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

Verse	Strongs No.	Greek	Strongs Definition
And	G1161	δέ	[Conjunction] but and etc.
as they went about	G2212	ζητέω	[Verb] to seek (literally or figuratively); specifically (by Hebraism) to worship (God) or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life)
to kill	G615	ἀποκτείνω	[Verb] to kill outright; figuratively to destroy
him	G846	αὐτός	backward); the reflexive pronoun self used (alone or in the compound of G1438) of the third person and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
tidings	G5334	φάσις	[Noun Feminine] a saying that is report
came	G305	ἀναβαίνω	[Verb] to go up (literally or figuratively)
unto the	G3588	ὁ	the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied at others omitted in English idiom)
chief captain	G5506	χιλίαρχος	[Noun Masculine] the commander of a thousand soldiers (chiliarch) that is colonel
of the	G3588	ὁ	the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied at others omitted in English idiom)
band	G4686	σπεῖρα	[Noun Feminine] a coil (spira spire) that is (figuratively) a mass of men (a Roman military cohort; also [by analogy] a squad of Levitical janitors)
that	G3754	ὅτι	[Conjunction] demonstrative that (sometimes redundant); causatively because
all	G3650	ὅλος	[Adjective] whole or all that is complete (in extent amount time or degree) especially (neuter) as noun or adverb
Jerusalem	G2419	Ἱερουσαλήμ	[Noun Location] Hierusalem (that is Jerushalem) the capital of Palestine
was in an uproar	G4797	συγχέω	[Verb] to commingle promiscuously that is (figuratively) to throw (an assembly) into disorder to perplex (the mind)

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.