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)
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G1218 — δῆμος
dēmos · people · Greek
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Acts 12:22 · δῆμοςAnd the people gave a shout, [saying, It is] the voice of a god, and not of a man.Acts 17:5 · δῆμον·But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.Acts 19:30 · δῆμονAnd when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.Acts 19:33 · δήμῳ.And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.