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 (αὐτοῦ, τ. θεοῦ), Mat.2:6, Luk.1:68, Heb.11:25, al.; of the people disting. from the rulers and priests ( I Est.1:10, Jdth.8:9, al.), Mat.26:5, Luk.20:19, Heb.5:3, al.; of Christians, as the people of God, Act.15:14, Rom.9:25, 26 Heb.4:9; περιούσιος, Tit.2:14; εἰς περιποίησιν, 1Pe.2:9 (LXX). SYN.: see: δῆμος. (AS)
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G2992 — λαός
laos · a people · Greek
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Matthew 1:21 · λαὸνShe shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”Matthew 2:4 · λαοῦGathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.Matthew 2:6 · λαόν‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come forth a governor, who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’”Matthew 4:16 · λαὸςthe people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”Matthew 4:23 · λαῷ.¶Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.Matthew 13:15 · λαοῦfor this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.’Matthew 15:8 · λαὸς‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.Matthew 21:23 · λαοῦWhen he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”Matthew 26:3 · λαοῦThen the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.Matthew 26:5 · λαῷ.¶But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”Matthew 26:47 · λαοῦ.While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priest and elders of the people.Matthew 27:1 · λαοῦNow when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:Matthew 27:25 · λαὸςAll the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”Matthew 27:64 · λαῷ·Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, ‘He is risen from the dead;’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”Mark 7:6 · λαὸςHe answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.Mark 14:2 · λαοῦ.¶For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot of the people.”Luke 1:10 · λαοῦThe whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.Luke 1:17 · λαὸνHe will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”Luke 1:21 · λαὸςThe people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marveled that he delayed in the temple.Luke 1:68 · λαῷ“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and worked redemption for his people;Luke 1:77 · λαῷto give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,Luke 2:10 · λαῷThe angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.Luke 2:31 · λαῶν,which you have prepared before the face of all peoples;Luke 2:32 · λαοῦa light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”Luke 3:15 · λαοῦAs the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,Luke 3:18 · λαόν.¶Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,Luke 3:21 · λαὸνNow it happened, when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,Luke 6:17 · λαοῦHe came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;Luke 7:1 · λαοῦ,After he had finished speaking in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.Luke 7:16 · λαὸνFear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”Luke 7:29 · λαὸςWhen all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.Luke 8:47 · λαοῦWhen the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.Luke 9:13 · λαὸνBut he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”Luke 18:43 · λαὸςImmediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.Luke 19:47 · λαοῦ,He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.Luke 19:48 · λαὸςThey couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.Luke 20:1 · λαὸνIt happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the priests and scribes came to him with the elders.Luke 20:6 · λαὸςBut if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”Luke 20:9 · λαὸνHe began to tell the people this parable. “A man planted a vineyard, and rented it out to some farmers, and went into another country for a long time.Luke 20:19 · λαόν·The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.Luke 20:26 · λαοῦ,They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer, and were silent.Luke 20:45 · λαοῦIn the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,Luke 21:23 · λαῷWoe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.Luke 21:38 · λαὸςAll the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.Luke 22:2 · λαόν.The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.Luke 22:66 · λαοῦ,As soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away into their council, saying,Luke 23:5 · λαὸνBut they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”Luke 23:13 · λαὸνPilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,Luke 23:14 · λαόν·and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.Luke 23:27 · λαοῦA great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.Luke 23:35 · λαὸςThe people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”Luke 24:19 · λαοῦ,He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;John 11:50 · λαοῦ,nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”John 18:14 · λαοῦ.¶Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should perish for the people.Acts 2:47 · λαόν.praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.Acts 3:9 · λαὸςAll the people saw him walking and praising God.Acts 3:11 · λαὸςAs the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.Acts 3:12 · λαόν·When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?Acts 3:23 · λαοῦ.It will be, that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’Acts 4:1 · λαὸνAs they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,Acts 4:2 · λαὸνbeing upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.Acts 4:8 · λαοῦThen Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,Acts 4:10 · λαῷbe it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.Acts 4:17 · λαόν,But so that this spreads no further among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”Acts 4:21 · λαόν,When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.Acts 4:25 · λαοὶwho by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?Acts 4:27 · λαοῖς“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered togetherActs 5:12 · λαῷ·By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.Acts 5:13 · λαός.None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.Acts 5:20 · λαῷ“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”Acts 5:25 · λαόν.¶One came and told them, “Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people.”Acts 5:26 · λαὸνThen the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.Acts 5:34 · λαῷ,But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.Acts 5:37 · λαὸνAfter this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.Acts 6:8 · λαῷ.¶Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.Acts 6:12 · λαὸνThey stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,Acts 7:17 · λαὸς“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,Acts 7:34 · λαοῦI have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’Acts 10:2 · λαῷa devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.Acts 10:41 · λαῷ,not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.Acts 10:42 · λαῷHe commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.Acts 12:4 · λαῷ.¶When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.Acts 12:11 · λαοῦWhen Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”Acts 13:15 · λαόν,After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”Acts 13:17 · λαοῦ · λαὸνThe God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.Acts 13:24 · λαῷbefore his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.Acts 13:31 · λαόν.and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.Acts 15:14 · λαὸνSimeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.Acts 18:10 · λαόςfor I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”Acts 19:4 · λαῷPaul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”Acts 21:28 · λαοῦcrying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!”Acts 21:30 · λαοῦ,All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.Acts 21:36 · λαοῦfor the multitude of the people followed after, crying out, “Away with him!”Acts 21:39 · λαόν.But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”Acts 21:40 · λαῷ,When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,Acts 23:5 · λαοῦPaul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”Acts 26:17 · λαοῦdelivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,Acts 26:23 · λαῷhow the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”Acts 28:17 · λαῷIt happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,Acts 28:26 · λαὸνsaying, ‘Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.Acts 28:27 · λαοῦFor this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’Romans 9:25 · λαόν · λαόνAs he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”Romans 9:26 · λαός“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ There they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”Romans 10:21 · λαὸνBut as to Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”Romans 11:1 · λαὸνI ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.Romans 11:2 · λαὸνGod didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:Romans 15:10 · λαοῦAgain he says, “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”Romans 15:11 · λαοί.Again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him.”1 Corinthians 10:7 · λαὸςNeither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.”1 Corinthians 14:21 · λαῷIn the law it is written, “By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord.”2 Corinthians 6:16 · λαός.What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”Titus 2:14 · λαὸνwho gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.Hebrews 2:17 · λαοῦ.Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.Hebrews 4:9 · λαῷThere remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.Hebrews 5:3 · λαοῦBecause of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.Hebrews 7:5 · λαὸνThey indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest’s office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of Abraham,Hebrews 7:11 · λαὸςNow if there were perfection through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?Hebrews 7:27 · λαοῦ·who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.Hebrews 8:10 · λαόν.“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.Hebrews 9:7 · λαοῦbut into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.Hebrews 9:19 · λαῷ, · λαὸνFor when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,Hebrews 10:30 · λαὸνFor we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me,” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”Hebrews 11:25 · λαῷchoosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;Hebrews 13:12 · λαόν,Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.1 Peter 2:9 · λαὸςBut you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:1 Peter 2:10 · λαός, · λαὸςwho in time past were no people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.2 Peter 2:1 · λαῷBut false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.Jude 1:5 · λαὸνNow I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.Revelation 5:9 · λαοῦThey sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,Revelation 7:9 · λαῶνAfter these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.Revelation 10:11 · λαοῖςThey told me, “You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”Revelation 11:9 · λαῶνFrom among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.Revelation 13:7 · λαὸνIt was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.Revelation 14:6 · λαὸνI saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.Revelation 17:15 · λαοὶHe said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.Revelation 18:4 · λαόςI heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,Revelation 21:3 · λαοὶI heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.