δῆμος dēmos · G1218

people

δῆμος, -ου, ὁ ; [in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁפָּחָה ; ] ; 1. a district, country. ; 2. the common people, the people generally; esp. the people assembled: Act.12:22 17:5 19:30 33.; † SYN.: λαός, the people at large: δ., the people as a body politic; opposite to δ. is ὄχλος, the unorganized multitude. ἔθνος, in sing., means in NT as in Gk. writers generally, a nation, but in pl. denotes the rest of mankind apart from the Jews: Gentiles. λ. also, rare in cl. (Att... λεώς), is frequently in LXX and NT, and usually limited to the chosen people, Israel (cf. Cl. Rev., i, 42 f.; Cremer, 689). (AS)

Definition: TBESG (Abbott-Smith)

Classical Greek (Liddell–Scott–Jones) excerpt

δῆμος, ; Doric dialect δᾶμος (compare infr. IV), ὁ, district, country, land, Βοιωτοὶ μάλα πίονα δ. ἔχοντες [] the land of dreams, []; 2 the people, inhabitants of such a district, πόληΐ τε παντί τε δήμῳ []; II hence (since the common people lived in the country, the chiefs in the city), the commons, common people, δήμου ἀνήρ, opposed to βασιλεύς, ἔξοχος ἀνήρ, etc., [] being a commoner, []; opposed to οἱ εὐδαίμονες, []; opposed to οἱ παχέες, []; opposed to οἱ δυνατοί, []; = Latin plebs, []unus …

Where it's used 4 times

Acts 12:22 · Acts 17:5 · Acts 19:30 · Acts 19:33

Source: TBESG G1218; TFLSJ G1218

Original-language words, glosses, parsing and lexicon entries: STEPBible data by Tyndale House, Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG, TFLSJ, TEHMC, TEGMC), CC BY 4.0, with changes. Hebrew text from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible. English alignment: Berean Standard Bible tables (public domain).

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