Strong G1218δῆμος
people
- Transliteration
- dēmos
- Pronunciation
- day'-mos
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From G1210; the public (as bound together socially): - people.
Detailed definition
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)
[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)
In the Bible
Strong G1218 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- people4
First verses
- Acts 12:22And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
- 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.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
δῆμος,
Doric dialect δᾶμος (compare infr. IV), ὁ, district, country, land, Βοιωτοὶ μάλα πίονα δ. ἔχοντες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.710; Λυκίης ἐν πίονι δ. 16.437, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.322, etc.; 'Ιθάκης ἐνὶ δ. 1.103; δήμῳ ἔνι Τρώων 13.266; λαοὶ ἀνὰ δῆμον 16.95: _metaphorically_, δῆμος ὀνείρων)] the land of dreams, [Refs (24.12.)]
2 the people, inhabitants of such a district, πόληΐ τε παντί τε δήμῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.50, compare “hymnus ad Cererem” 271; Βακτρίων ἔρρει πανώλης δ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 732.)]
II hence (since the common people lived in the country, the chiefs in the city), the commons, common people, δήμου ἀνήρ, opposed to βασιλεύς, ἔξοχος ἀνήρ, etc., [NT+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.198, 188, compare 11.328, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 261, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.66, NT.Act.12.22, etc. (rarely of a single person, δῆμον ἐόντα)] being a commoner, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.213))]; opposed to οἱ εὐδαίμονες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.196)]; opposed to οἱ παχέες, [Refs ([prev. author] 5.30)]; opposed to οἱ δυνατοί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.4; οἱ.. ἐπαναστάντες τοῖς δυνατοῖς καὶ ὄντες δῆμος [prev. author] 8.73)]; = Latin plebs, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.88, etc.; τοῦ πολλοῦ δ. εἷς)]unus de plebe, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sat.” 2; τοῦ δ. ὤν [prev. author] “Gall.” 22)]; in an army, rank and file, opposed to officers, ὁ δ. τῶν στρατιωτῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.14.)]
II.2 metaphorically, δ. ἰχθύων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 206.7; τυράννων 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.15.1; πιθήκων [prev. author] “VA” 3.4)]; ὀρνέων [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.30.)]
III in a political sense, the sovereign people, the free citizens, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 199, 1011, etc.; ὁ δ. ὁ Ἀθηναίων “IG” 12.10.37, etc.; προστάτης τοῦ δήμου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.35, etc.; personified, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 42, +others; ἱερεὺς τοῦ Δ. καὶ τῶν Χαρίτων “IG” 22.1028.)]
III.2 popular government, democracy, opposed to ὀλιγαρχίη, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.82)]; opposed to οἱ τύραννοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.106; πολίτεομα εἶναι ἐν Χίῳ δ. “SIG” 283.4 (4th c.BC))]; δήμου κατάλυσις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.28, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 8.4; ταῦτα καταλύει δῆμον, οὐ κωμῳδία 4th-3rd c.BC: Philippides Comicus 25.7)]; δ. καταστῆσαι, καταπαύειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.3.3, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.107)]: in plural, democracies, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 3.82, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.15; δ. ὁ ἔσχατος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1277b3.)]
III.3 the popular assembly, λέγειν ἐν τῷ δ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 565b)]; ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δ., formula in Inscrr., as [Refs (“IG” 12.39, etc.)]; of the assembly of Oxyrhynchus, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 41.19 (3rd-4th c.AD), 1407.19 (3rd c.AD).)]
IV township, commune (= Doric dialect κώμη accusative to [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1448a37; but διελόμενοι τὴν μὲν πόλιν κατὰ κώμας, τὴν δὲ χώραν κατὰ δήμους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 7.46, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 746d, and see below), in Attica, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.69, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 21.5, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 9.1.16, “IG” 12.76.9, +others; elsewhere, [prev. work]12(5).594 (from Ceos), “Phib.” 1.28.13 (3rd c.AD), “OGI” 49.14 (from Ptolemais))], etc.:—Doric dialect δᾶμος, [Refs (“Michel” 418.34 (from Calymna), “IG” 12(1).58.23 (from Lindos))]: in indications of origin, Σωφάνης ἐκ δ. Δεκελεῆθεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.73; δήμου Ἁλαιεύς 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 211; τῶν δήμων Πιτθεύς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 2b; τῶν δ. Θορίκιος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.30, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 21.4; ἐπιγράψαι τοὺς βουλευτὰς πατρόθεν καὶ τοῦ δ. “IG” 22.223 B 4: _metaphorically_, οἱ τῆς θαλάσσης δ. 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “de gymnastica” 44.)]
V name for a prostitute, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 184.)]
VI faction in the circus, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“Tab.Defix.Aud.” 15.8 (Syria, 3rd c.AD).)]
VII ={κατανάγκη}, Ps.-[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.131)]. (Perh. cognate with Sanskrit dā´ti 'reap', δαίομαι, δατέομαι.)
Doric dialect δᾶμος (compare infr. IV), ὁ, district, country, land, Βοιωτοὶ μάλα πίονα δ. ἔχοντες [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.710; Λυκίης ἐν πίονι δ. 16.437, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.322, etc.; 'Ιθάκης ἐνὶ δ. 1.103; δήμῳ ἔνι Τρώων 13.266; λαοὶ ἀνὰ δῆμον 16.95: _metaphorically_, δῆμος ὀνείρων)] the land of dreams, [Refs (24.12.)]
2 the people, inhabitants of such a district, πόληΐ τε παντί τε δήμῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.50, compare “hymnus ad Cererem” 271; Βακτρίων ἔρρει πανώλης δ. 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 732.)]
II hence (since the common people lived in the country, the chiefs in the city), the commons, common people, δήμου ἀνήρ, opposed to βασιλεύς, ἔξοχος ἀνήρ, etc., [NT+8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.198, 188, compare 11.328, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 261, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.66, NT.Act.12.22, etc. (rarely of a single person, δῆμον ἐόντα)] being a commoner, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.213))]; opposed to οἱ εὐδαίμονες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.196)]; opposed to οἱ παχέες, [Refs ([prev. author] 5.30)]; opposed to οἱ δυνατοί, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.4; οἱ.. ἐπαναστάντες τοῖς δυνατοῖς καὶ ὄντες δῆμος [prev. author] 8.73)]; = Latin plebs, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.88, etc.; τοῦ πολλοῦ δ. εἷς)]unus de plebe, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sat.” 2; τοῦ δ. ὤν [prev. author] “Gall.” 22)]; in an army, rank and file, opposed to officers, ὁ δ. τῶν στρατιωτῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.14.)]
II.2 metaphorically, δ. ἰχθύων [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 206.7; τυράννων 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.15.1; πιθήκων [prev. author] “VA” 3.4)]; ὀρνέων [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.30.)]
III in a political sense, the sovereign people, the free citizens, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 199, 1011, etc.; ὁ δ. ὁ Ἀθηναίων “IG” 12.10.37, etc.; προστάτης τοῦ δήμου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.35, etc.; personified, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 42, +others; ἱερεὺς τοῦ Δ. καὶ τῶν Χαρίτων “IG” 22.1028.)]
III.2 popular government, democracy, opposed to ὀλιγαρχίη, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.82)]; opposed to οἱ τύραννοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.106; πολίτεομα εἶναι ἐν Χίῳ δ. “SIG” 283.4 (4th c.BC))]; δήμου κατάλυσις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.3.28, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 8.4; ταῦτα καταλύει δῆμον, οὐ κωμῳδία 4th-3rd c.BC: Philippides Comicus 25.7)]; δ. καταστῆσαι, καταπαύειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.3.3, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.107)]: in plural, democracies, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 3.82, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.15; δ. ὁ ἔσχατος 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1277b3.)]
III.3 the popular assembly, λέγειν ἐν τῷ δ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 565b)]; ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δ., formula in Inscrr., as [Refs (“IG” 12.39, etc.)]; of the assembly of Oxyrhynchus, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“POxy.” 41.19 (3rd-4th c.AD), 1407.19 (3rd c.AD).)]
IV township, commune (= Doric dialect κώμη accusative to [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Poetica” 1448a37; but διελόμενοι τὴν μὲν πόλιν κατὰ κώμας, τὴν δὲ χώραν κατὰ δήμους 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 7.46, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 746d, and see below), in Attica, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.69, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 21.5, 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 9.1.16, “IG” 12.76.9, +others; elsewhere, [prev. work]12(5).594 (from Ceos), “Phib.” 1.28.13 (3rd c.AD), “OGI” 49.14 (from Ptolemais))], etc.:—Doric dialect δᾶμος, [Refs (“Michel” 418.34 (from Calymna), “IG” 12(1).58.23 (from Lindos))]: in indications of origin, Σωφάνης ἐκ δ. Δεκελεῆθεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.73; δήμου Ἁλαιεύς 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 211; τῶν δήμων Πιτθεύς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 2b; τῶν δ. Θορίκιος 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 39.30, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 21.4; ἐπιγράψαι τοὺς βουλευτὰς πατρόθεν καὶ τοῦ δ. “IG” 22.223 B 4: _metaphorically_, οἱ τῆς θαλάσσης δ. 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “de gymnastica” 44.)]
V name for a prostitute, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 184.)]
VI faction in the circus, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (“Tab.Defix.Aud.” 15.8 (Syria, 3rd c.AD).)]
VII ={κατανάγκη}, Ps.-[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.131)]. (Perh. cognate with Sanskrit dā´ti 'reap', δαίομαι, δατέομαι.)