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 · λαὸνand she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.’Matthew 2:4 · λαοῦand having gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he was inquiring from them where the Christ is born.Matthew 2:6 · λαόνAnd thou, Beth-Lehem, the land of Judah, thou art by no means the least among the leaders of Judah, for out of thee shall come one leading, who shall feed My people Israel.’Matthew 4:16 · λαὸςthe people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death—light arose to them.’Matthew 4:23 · λαῷ.¶And Jesus was going about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every disease, and every malady among the people,Matthew 13:15 · λαοῦfor made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.Matthew 15:8 · λαὸςThis people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me;Matthew 21:23 · λαοῦAnd he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, ‘By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?’Matthew 26:3 · λαοῦThen were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas;Matthew 26:5 · λαῷ.¶and they said, ‘Not in the feast, that there may not be a tumult among the people.’Matthew 26:47 · λαοῦ.And while he is yet speaking, lo, Judas, one of the twelve did come, and with him a great multitude, with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and elders of the people.Matthew 27:1 · λαοῦAnd morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put him to death;Matthew 27:25 · λαὸςand all the people answering said, ‘His blood is upon us, and upon our children!’Matthew 27:64 · λαῷ·command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.’Mark 7:6 · λαὸςand he answering said to them—‘Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, hypocrites, as it hath been written, This people with the lips doth honour Me, and their heart is far from Me;Mark 14:2 · λαοῦ.¶and they said, ‘Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.’Luke 1:10 · λαοῦand all the multitude of the people were praying without, at the hour of the perfume.Luke 1:17 · λαὸνand he shall go before Him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn hearts of fathers unto children, and disobedient ones to the wisdom of righteous ones, to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared.’Luke 1:21 · λαὸςAnd the people were waiting for Zacharias, and wondering at his tarrying in the sanctuary,Luke 1:68 · λαῷBlessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, Because He did look upon, And wrought redemption for His people,Luke 1:77 · λαῷTo give knowledge of salvation to His people In remission of their sins,Luke 2:10 · λαῷAnd the messenger said to them, ‘Fear not, for lo, I bring you good news of great joy, that shall be to all the people—Luke 2:31 · λαῶν,which Thou didst prepare before the face of all the peoples,Luke 2:32 · λαοῦa light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.’Luke 3:15 · λαοῦAnd the people are looking forward, and all are reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether or not he may be the Christ;Luke 3:18 · λαόν.¶And, therefore, indeed with many other things, exhorting, he was proclaiming good news to the people,Luke 3:21 · λαὸνAnd it came to pass, in all the people being baptised, Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heaven was opened,Luke 6:17 · λαοῦand having come down with them, he stood upon a level spot, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea, and Jerusalem, and the maritime Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their sicknesses,Luke 7:1 · λαοῦ,And when he completed all his sayings in the ears of the people, he went into Capernaum;Luke 7:16 · λαὸνand fear took hold of all, and they were glorifying God, saying—‘A great prophet hath risen among us,’ and—‘God did look upon His people.’Luke 7:29 · λαὸςAnd all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,Luke 8:47 · λαοῦAnd the woman, having seen that she was not hid, trembling, came, and having fallen before him, for what cause she touched him declared to him before all the people, and how she was healed presently;Luke 9:13 · λαὸνAnd he said unto them, ‘Give ye them to eat;’ and they said, ‘We have no more than five loaves, and two fishes: except, having gone, we may buy for all this people victuals;’Luke 18:43 · λαὸςand presently he did receive sight, and was following him, glorifying God; and all the people, having seen, did give praise to God.Luke 19:47 · λαοῦ,And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him—also the chiefs of the people—Luke 19:48 · λαὸςand they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him.Luke 20:1 · λαὸνAnd it came to pass, on one of those days, as he is teaching the people in the temple, and proclaiming good news, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came upon him,Luke 20:6 · λαὸςand if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.’Luke 20:9 · λαὸνAnd he began to speak unto the people this simile: ‘A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,Luke 20:19 · λαόν·And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.Luke 20:26 · λαοῦ,and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.Luke 20:45 · λαοῦAnd, all the people hearing, he said to his disciples,Luke 21:23 · λαῷ‘And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;Luke 21:38 · λαὸςand all the people were coming early unto him in the temple to hear him.Luke 22:2 · λαόν.and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.Luke 22:66 · λαοῦ,And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own sanhedrim,Luke 23:5 · λαὸνand they were the more urgent, saying—‘He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea—having begun from Galilee—unto this place.’Luke 23:13 · λαὸνAnd Pilate having called together the chief priests, and the rulers, and the people,Luke 23:14 · λαόν·said unto them, ‘Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;Luke 23:27 · λαοῦAnd there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,Luke 23:35 · λαὸςAnd the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, ‘Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.’Luke 24:19 · λαοῦ,And he said to them, ‘What things?’ And they said to him, ‘The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man—a prophet—powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people,John 11:50 · λαοῦ,nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.’John 18:14 · λαοῦ.¶and Caiaphas was he who gave counsel to the Jews, that it is good for one man to perish for the people.Acts 2:47 · λαόν.praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.Acts 3:9 · λαὸςand all the people saw him walking and praising God,Acts 3:11 · λαὸςAnd at the lame man who was healed holding Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch called Solomon’s—greatly amazed,Acts 3:12 · λαόν·and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, ‘Men, Israelites! why wonder ye at this? or on us why look ye so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk?Acts 3:23 · λαοῦ.and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;Acts 4:1 · λαὸνAnd as they are speaking unto the people, there came to them the priests, and the magistrate of the temple, and the Sadducees—Acts 4:2 · λαὸνbeing grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead—Acts 4:8 · λαοῦThen Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: ‘Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,Acts 4:10 · λαῷbe it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.Acts 4:17 · λαόν,but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them no more to speak in this name to any man.’Acts 4:21 · λαόν,And they having further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done,Acts 4:25 · λαοὶwho, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?Acts 4:27 · λαοῖςfor gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,Acts 5:12 · λαῷ·And through the hands of the apostles came many signs and wonders among the people, and they were with one accord all in the porch of Solomon;Acts 5:13 · λαός.and of the rest no one was daring to join himself to them, but the people were magnifying them,Acts 5:20 · λαῷ‘Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;’Acts 5:25 · λαόν.¶and coming near, a certain one told them, saying—‘Lo, the men whom ye did put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people;’Acts 5:26 · λαὸνthen the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;Acts 5:34 · λαῷ,but a certain one, having risen up in the sanhedrim—a Pharisee, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of law honoured by all the people—commanded to put the apostles forth a little,Acts 5:37 · λαὸν‘After this one rose up, Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrolment, and drew away much people after him, and that one perished, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered;Acts 6:8 · λαῷ.¶And Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people,Acts 6:12 · λαὸνThey did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon him, they caught him, and brought him to the sanhedrim;Acts 7:17 · λαὸς‘And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,Acts 7:34 · λαοῦseeing I have seen the affliction of My people that is in Egypt, and their groaning I did hear, and came down to deliver them; and now come, I will send thee to Egypt.Acts 10:2 · λαῷpious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,Acts 10:41 · λαῷ,not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God—to us who did eat with him, and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead;Acts 10:42 · λαῷand he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify fully that it is he who hath been ordained by God judge of living and dead—Acts 12:4 · λαῷ.¶whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.Acts 12:11 · λαοῦAnd Peter having come to himself, said, ‘Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;’Acts 13:15 · λαόν,and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, ‘Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people—say on.’Acts 13:17 · λαοῦ · λαὸνthe God of this people Israel did choose our fathers, and the people He did exalt in their sojourning in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm did He bring them out of it;Acts 13:24 · λαῷJohn having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;Acts 13:31 · λαόν.and he was seen for many days of those who did come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.Acts 15:14 · λαὸνSimeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,Acts 18:10 · λαόςbecause I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;’Acts 19:4 · λαῷAnd Paul said, ‘John, indeed, did baptize with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe—that is, in the Christ—Jesus;’Acts 21:28 · λαοῦcrying out, ‘Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;’Acts 21:30 · λαοῦ,All the city also was moved and there was a running together of the people, and having laid hold on Paul, they were drawing him out of the temple, and immediately were the doors shut,Acts 21:36 · λαοῦfor the crowd of the people was following after, crying, ‘Away with him.’Acts 21:39 · λαόν.And Paul said, ‘I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, of no mean city a citizen; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.’Acts 21:40 · λαῷ,And he having given him leave, Paul having stood upon the stairs, did beckon with the hand to the people, and there having been a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew dialect, saying:Acts 23:5 · λαοῦand Paul said, ‘I did not know, brethren, that he is chief priest: for it hath been written, Of the ruler of thy people thou shalt not speak evil;’Acts 26:17 · λαοῦdelivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee,Acts 26:23 · λαῷthat the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.’Acts 28:17 · λαῷAnd it came to pass after three days, Paul called together those who are the principal men of the Jews, and they having come together, he said unto them: ‘Men, brethren, I—having done nothing contrary to the people, or to the customs of the fathers—a prisoner from Jerusalem, was delivered up to the hands of the Romans;Acts 28:26 · λαὸνsaying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,Acts 28:27 · λαοῦfor made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they may see with the eyes, and with the heart may understand, and be turned back, and I may heal them.Romans 9:25 · λαόν · λαόνas also in Hosea He saith, ‘I will call what is not My people—My people; and her not beloved—Beloved,Romans 9:26 · λαόςand it shall be—in the place where it was said to them, Ye are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.’Romans 10:21 · λαὸνand unto Israel He saith, ‘All the day I did stretch out My hands unto a people unbelieving and gainsaying.’Romans 11:1 · λαὸνI say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:Romans 11:2 · λαὸνGod did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known—in Elijah—what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,Romans 15:10 · λαοῦand again it saith, ‘Rejoice ye nations, with His people;’Romans 15:11 · λαοί.and again, ‘Praise the Lord, all ye nations; and laud Him, all ye peoples;’1 Corinthians 10:7 · λαὸςNeither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, ‘The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;’1 Corinthians 14:21 · λαῷin the law it hath been written, that, ‘With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;’2 Corinthians 6:16 · λαός.and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said—‘I will dwell in them, and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,Titus 2:14 · λαὸνwho did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;Hebrews 2:17 · λαοῦ.wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,Hebrews 4:9 · λαῷthere doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,Hebrews 5:3 · λαοῦand because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins;Hebrews 7:5 · λαὸνand those, indeed, out of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood, a command have to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, their brethren, even though they came forth out of the loins of Abraham;Hebrews 7:11 · λαὸςIf indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood—for the people under it had received law—what further need, according to the order of Melchisedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?Hebrews 7:27 · λαοῦ·who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having offered up himself;Hebrews 8:10 · λαόν.because this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;Hebrews 9:7 · λαοῦand into the second, once in the year, only the chief priest, not apart from blood, which he doth offer for himself and the errors of the people,Hebrews 9:19 · λαῷ, · λαὸνfor every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle,Hebrews 10:30 · λαὸνfor we have known Him who is saying, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;’ and again, ‘The Lord shall judge His people;’—Hebrews 11:25 · λαῷhaving chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin’s pleasure for a season,Hebrews 13:12 · λαόν,Wherefore, also Jesus—that he might sanctify through his own blood the people—without the gate did suffer;1 Peter 2:9 · λαὸςand ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;1 Peter 2:10 · λαός, · λαὸςwho were once not a people, and are now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.2 Peter 2:1 · λαῷAnd there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,Jude 1:5 · λαὸνand to remind you I intend, you knowing once this, that the Lord, a people out of the land of Egypt having saved, again those who did not believe did destroy;Revelation 5:9 · λαοῦand they sing a new song, saying, ‘Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,Revelation 7:9 · λαῶνAfter these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,Revelation 10:11 · λαοῖςand he saith to me, ‘It behoveth thee again to prophesy about peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings—many.’Revelation 11:9 · λαῶνand they shall behold—they of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations—their dead bodies three days and a half, and their dead bodies they shall not suffer to be put into tombs,Revelation 13:7 · λαὸνand there was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them, and there was given to it authority over every tribe, and tongue, and nation.Revelation 14:6 · λαὸνAnd I saw another messenger flying in mid-heaven, having good news age-during to proclaim to those dwelling upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,Revelation 17:15 · λαοὶAnd he saith to me, ‘The waters that thou didst see, where the whore doth sit, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues;’Revelation 18:4 · λαόςAnd I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, ‘Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues,Revelation 21:3 · λαοὶand I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, ‘Lo, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them—their God,