laos (a people) · Rightly

Meaning

Usually translated “people”, “peoples” and “nation”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

people 120
a people 9
peoples 9
nation 1
of people 1
group of people 1
our people 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Acts 47
Luke 36
Matthew 15
Hebrews 12
Revelation 8
Romans 7

14 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

2 Peter 2:1In contextBut there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Jude 1:5In contextI will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Matthew 1:21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Matthew 2:4And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
Matthew 2:6And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Matthew 4:16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

All 138 verses, by book

Matthew 15: 1:21 2:4 2:6 4:16 4:23 9:35 13:15 15:8 21:23 26:3 26:5 26:47 27:1 27:25 27:64
Mark 2: 7:6 14:2
Luke 36: 1:10 1:17 1:21 1:68 1:77 2:10 2:31 2:32 3:15 3:18 3:21 6:17 7:1 7:16 7:29 8:47 9:13 18:43 19:47 19:48 20:1 20:6 20:9 20:19 20:26 20:45 21:23 21:38 22:2 22:66 23:5 23:13 23:14 23:27 23:35 24:19
John 3: 8:2 11:50 18:14
Acts 47: 2:47 3:9 3:11 3:12 3:23 4:1 4:2 4:8 4:10 4:17 4:21 4:25 4:27 5:12 5:13 5:20 5:25 5:26 5:34 5:37 6:8 6:12 7:17 7:34 10:2 10:41 10:42 12:4 12:11 13:15 13:17 13:24 13:31 15:14 18:10 19:4 21:28 21:30 21:36 21:39 21:40 23:5 26:17 26:23 28:17 28:26 28:27
Romans 7: 9:25 9:26 10:21 11:1 11:2 15:10 15:11
1 Corinthians 2: 10:7 14:21
2 Corinthians 1: 6:16
Titus 1: 2:14
Hebrews 12: 2:17 4:9 5:3 7:5 7:11 7:27 8:10 9:7 9:19 10:30 11:25 13:12
1 Peter 2: 2:9 2:10
2 Peter 1: 2:1
Jude 1: 1:5
Revelation 8: 5:9 7:9 10:11 11:9 14:6 17:15 18:4 21:3

Greek dictionary

λαός laos · 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. …

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.