People
δῆμοςStrong’s G1218dēmos
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Dēmos is the Greek word usually translated “people”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.”
Meaning
Usually translated “people”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- people 3
- the people 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 4
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Acts 17:5But 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 19:30And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.
- Acts 19:33And 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.
Greek dictionary
δῆμος dēmos · 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)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “people” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PEOPLE, noun
[Latin populus.]
- The body of persons who compose a community, town, city or nation.
- The vulgar; the mass of illiterate persons.
- The commonalty, as distinct from men of rank.
- Persons of a particular class; a part of a nation or community; as country people
All definitions and other forms of “people”
- Persons in general; any persons indefinitely; like on in French, and man in Saxon.
- A collection or community of animals.“The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer” Proverbs 30:25
- When people signified a separate nation or tribe, it has the plural number.“Thou must prophesy again before many peoples” Revelation 10:11
- In Scripture, fathers or kindred. Genesis 25:8
- The Gentiles.“--To him shall the gathering of the people be” Genesis 49:10
PEOPLE, verb transitive
To stock with inhabitants. Emigrants from Europe have peopled the United States.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.