λαός laos · G2992

a people

λαός, -οῦ, ὁ, ; [in LXX very frequently for עַם, Gen.14:16, al.; occasionally for לְאֹם ( Gen.25:23, al.), etc. ; ] ; a word rarely found in Att. prose; 1. the people at large (Hom., al.), esp. of people assembled: Mat.27:25, Luk.1:21 3:15 al.; pl. (Hom., al., π.; see MM, xvi), Act.4:27. ; 2. a people, those of the same race and language (Pind., Æsch., al.: in LXX, Gen.26:11, Exo.9:16, al.): joined with γλῶσσα, φυλή, ἔθνος, Rev.5:9 7:9 11:9, al.; pl., Luk.2:31, Rom.15:11; esp. as almost always in LXX, of Israel, Mat.4:23, Mrk.7:6, Luk.2:10, Jhn.11:50, Heb.2:17, al.; opposite to τ. ἔθνη, Act.26:17, 23 Rom.15:10; πρεσβύτεροι (πρῶτοι, etc.) τοῦ λ., Mat.21:23, Luk.19:17, Act.4:8, al.; ὁ λ. μου …

Definition: TBESG (Abbott-Smith)

Classical Greek (Liddell–Scott–Jones) excerpt

λᾱός, ὁ, ; Ionic dialect ληός [] (variant{λαόν}, which is in all Mss. in []; Attic dialect λεώς, which is also used in [] and in late Prose, as Foed.Byzantine cited in []; 1 in [] (λαοί) usually means men, i.e. soldiers, both of the whole army and smaller divisions, κριτὸς ἔγρετο λ. Ἀχαιῶν []; periphrastic, στρατὸς λαῶν[]; mostly including both foot and horse, as []; but sometimes λαός denotes foot, as opposed to horse, []; also, a land army, opposed to a fleet, []; also, the common men, …

Where it's used 143 times

Matthew 1:21 · Matthew 2:4 · Matthew 2:6 · Matthew 4:16 · Matthew 4:23 · Matthew 9:35 · Matthew 13:15 · Matthew 15:8 · Matthew 21:23 · Matthew 26:3 · Matthew 26:5 · Matthew 26:47 · Matthew 27:1 · Matthew 27:25 · Matthew 27:64 · Mark 7:6 · Mark 14:2 · Luke 1:10 · Luke 1:17 · Luke 1:21 · Luke 1:68 · Luke 1:77 · Luke 2:10 · Luke 2:31 · Luke 2:32 · Luke 3:15 · Luke 3:18 · Luke 3:21 · Luke 6:17 · Luke 7:1 · Luke 7:16 · Luke 7:29 · Luke 8:47 · Luke 9:13 · Luke 18:43 · Luke 19:47 · Luke 19:48 · Luke 20:1 · Luke 20:6 · Luke 20:9 · Luke 20:19 · Luke 20:26 · Luke 20:45 · Luke 21:23 · Luke 21:38 · Luke 22:2 · Luke 22:66 · Luke 23:5 · Luke 23:13 · Luke 23:14 · Luke 23:27 · Luke 23:35 · Luke 24:19 · John 8:2 · John 11:50 · John 18:14 · Acts 2:47 · Acts 3:9 · Acts 3:11 · Acts 3:12 … and 83 more

Source: TBESG G2992; TFLSJ G2992

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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