Strong G2992λαός
a people
- Transliteration
- laos
- Pronunciation
- lah-os'
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
Apparently a primary word; a people (in general; thus differing from G1218 which denotes one´ s own populace): - people.
Detailed definition
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)
[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)
In the Bible
Strong G2992 appears in 139 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- people139
- of2
- to2
- among1
- unto1
First verses
- 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.
- Matthew 4:23And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
- Matthew 9:35And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
- Matthew 13:15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
- Matthew 15:8This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
- Matthew 21:23And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
- Matthew 26:3Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
- Matthew 26:5But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
- Matthew 26:47And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
- Matthew 27:1When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
- Matthew 27:25Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
- Matthew 27:64Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
- Mark 7:6He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
- Mark 11:32But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.
- Mark 14:2But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
- Luke 1:10And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
- Luke 1:17And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
λᾱός, ὁ,
Ionic dialect ληός [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 88, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.42)] (variant{λαόν}, which is in all Mss. in [Refs 6th c.BC+ (4.148), conjecture in 6th c.BC: Mimnermus Lyricus 14.9)]; Attic dialect λεώς, which is also used in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.22, 8.136, while the form λαός is sometimes used in Trag., and once or twice even in Comedy texts (see. below 1.3): also in Inscrr. and Papyrus (see. below))] and in late Prose, as Foed.Byzantine cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.52.7 (_plural_), 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.4.3 (_plural_), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1096b, etc. (both forms in proper nouns, Λεωβώτης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.204, Λαβώτας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.2.18, etc.).)]
1 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, λαός)] (λαοί) usually means men, i.e. soldiers, both of the whole army and smaller divisions, κριτὸς ἔγρετο λ. Ἀχαιῶν [Refs (7.434; λαὸν ἀγείρειν 16.129; πολὺν ὤλεσα λαόν 2.115: _plural_, ἅμα τῷ γε.. ἄριστοι λ. ἕποντ᾽ [prev. work] 578; στίχες ἀσπιστάων λ. 4.91)]; periphrastic, στρατὸς λαῶν[Refs ([prev. work] 76; λαῶν ἔθνος 13.495)]; mostly including both foot and horse, as [Refs (2.809)]; but sometimes λαός denotes foot, as opposed to horse, [Refs (7.342)]; also, a land army, opposed to a fleet, [Refs (4.76, 9.424, 10.14)]; also, the common men, opposed to their leaders, [Refs (2.365, 13.108)]; but
2 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”, λαοί, more rarely λαός)], almost always means men or people; as subjects of a prince, e.g. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (3.214, 305, +others (λαοί is sometimes so used in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, e.g. 17.226, 24.611)]; λαοὶ ἀγροιῶται country-folk, [Refs (11.676)]; work-people, [Refs (17.390))]; of sailors, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.248; so after 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ναυτικὸς λεώς)] seafaring folk, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 383; πᾶς ὁ χειρῶναξ λεώς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 844; ὁ γεωργικὸς λεώς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 920 (Lyric poetry))]: in singular, slave, τὸν Εὐρυσθέως λεών, of Heracles, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Hecataeus Milesius Historicus 23 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]; and so perhaps λεὼς αὔτοικος [Refs (“GDI” 5533e (from Zeleia): more generally, μέροπες λαοί)], i.e. mankind, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 90 (Lyric poetry))]; λ. ἐγχώριοι the natives,[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 517, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.194)]; especially in Egypt, of the fellahin, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PRev.Laws” 42.11 - 16 (3rd c.BC), “PSI” 4.380.5 (3rd c.BC), etc.)]; civil population, opposed to priests and soldiers, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“OGI” 90.12 (Rosetta, 2nd c.BC), compare 225.8 (Milet., 3rd c.BC), +others)]
3 people assembled, as in the theatre, ὁ πολὺς λαῶν ὄχλος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 676, compare 219 (both Lyric poetry))]; especially in the Ecclesia, αἱ στίχες τῶν λαῶν [Refs ([prev. author] “Eq.” 163: hence the phrase ἀκούετε λεῴ)] hear O people!—the usual way of beginning proclamations at Athens, like our [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“Oyez” ! 6th c.BC: Susario Comicus 1.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 551, “Av.” 448)]; τιμῶσιν οἱ πάντες λεῴ[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1275; δεῦρ᾽ ἴτε, πάντες λεῴ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 384; Ἀττικὸς λεώς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 681)]; ὁ πολὺς λεώς the multitude, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 458d, etc.)]
4 in LXX, of the people, as opposed to priests and Levites, [NT (“1 Es.” 5.46; in “NT”, of “Jews”, opposed to Gentiles, NT.Matt.2.6, NT.Luke.2.10, +others, compare “SIG” 1247 (Jewish tombstones))]; of [NT (“Christians”, opposed to heathen, NT.Act.15.14, +others)]
II a people, i.e. all who are called by one name, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, Δωριεῖ λαῷ “O.” 8.30; Λυδῶν δὲ λαὸς καὶ Φρυγῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 770; ξύμπας Ἀχαιῶν λαός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1243, compare “OT” 144, etc.)]; ἱππόται λαοί, i.e. the Thessalians, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.153, compare 9.54, “N.” 1.17. (The resemblance between λαός)] people and λᾶος stone (compare λᾶας) is implied in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.611 λαοὺς δὲ λίθους ποίησε Κρονίων (in the story of Niobe))]; and so [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus)] explains the word from the legend of Deucalion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“O.” 9.46, compare 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 122, 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 1.7.2; but compare 4th c.BC: Philochorus Historicus 12.))] (From λᾱϝ-, as shown by the proper noun Λαϝοπτόλεμος [Refs (“GDI” 3151, ϝιόλαϝος [prev. work]3132 (from Corinth): hence probably λήϊτον.))]
Ionic dialect ληός [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 88, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.42)] (variant{λαόν}, which is in all Mss. in [Refs 6th c.BC+ (4.148), conjecture in 6th c.BC: Mimnermus Lyricus 14.9)]; Attic dialect λεώς, which is also used in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.22, 8.136, while the form λαός is sometimes used in Trag., and once or twice even in Comedy texts (see. below 1.3): also in Inscrr. and Papyrus (see. below))] and in late Prose, as Foed.Byzantine cited in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.52.7 (_plural_), 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 14.4.3 (_plural_), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1096b, etc. (both forms in proper nouns, Λεωβώτης 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.204, Λαβώτας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.2.18, etc.).)]
1 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, λαός)] (λαοί) usually means men, i.e. soldiers, both of the whole army and smaller divisions, κριτὸς ἔγρετο λ. Ἀχαιῶν [Refs (7.434; λαὸν ἀγείρειν 16.129; πολὺν ὤλεσα λαόν 2.115: _plural_, ἅμα τῷ γε.. ἄριστοι λ. ἕποντ᾽ [prev. work] 578; στίχες ἀσπιστάων λ. 4.91)]; periphrastic, στρατὸς λαῶν[Refs ([prev. work] 76; λαῶν ἔθνος 13.495)]; mostly including both foot and horse, as [Refs (2.809)]; but sometimes λαός denotes foot, as opposed to horse, [Refs (7.342)]; also, a land army, opposed to a fleet, [Refs (4.76, 9.424, 10.14)]; also, the common men, opposed to their leaders, [Refs (2.365, 13.108)]; but
2 in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”, λαοί, more rarely λαός)], almost always means men or people; as subjects of a prince, e.g. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (3.214, 305, +others (λαοί is sometimes so used in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, e.g. 17.226, 24.611)]; λαοὶ ἀγροιῶται country-folk, [Refs (11.676)]; work-people, [Refs (17.390))]; of sailors, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.248; so after 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, ναυτικὸς λεώς)] seafaring folk, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 383; πᾶς ὁ χειρῶναξ λεώς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 844; ὁ γεωργικὸς λεώς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 920 (Lyric poetry))]: in singular, slave, τὸν Εὐρυσθέως λεών, of Heracles, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Hecataeus Milesius Historicus 23 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]; and so perhaps λεὼς αὔτοικος [Refs (“GDI” 5533e (from Zeleia): more generally, μέροπες λαοί)], i.e. mankind, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 90 (Lyric poetry))]; λ. ἐγχώριοι the natives,[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 517, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.194)]; especially in Egypt, of the fellahin, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PRev.Laws” 42.11 - 16 (3rd c.BC), “PSI” 4.380.5 (3rd c.BC), etc.)]; civil population, opposed to priests and soldiers, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“OGI” 90.12 (Rosetta, 2nd c.BC), compare 225.8 (Milet., 3rd c.BC), +others)]
3 people assembled, as in the theatre, ὁ πολὺς λαῶν ὄχλος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 676, compare 219 (both Lyric poetry))]; especially in the Ecclesia, αἱ στίχες τῶν λαῶν [Refs ([prev. author] “Eq.” 163: hence the phrase ἀκούετε λεῴ)] hear O people!—the usual way of beginning proclamations at Athens, like our [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“Oyez” ! 6th c.BC: Susario Comicus 1.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 551, “Av.” 448)]; τιμῶσιν οἱ πάντες λεῴ[Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1275; δεῦρ᾽ ἴτε, πάντες λεῴ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 384; Ἀττικὸς λεώς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 681)]; ὁ πολὺς λεώς the multitude, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 458d, etc.)]
4 in LXX, of the people, as opposed to priests and Levites, [NT (“1 Es.” 5.46; in “NT”, of “Jews”, opposed to Gentiles, NT.Matt.2.6, NT.Luke.2.10, +others, compare “SIG” 1247 (Jewish tombstones))]; of [NT (“Christians”, opposed to heathen, NT.Act.15.14, +others)]
II a people, i.e. all who are called by one name, first in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, Δωριεῖ λαῷ “O.” 8.30; Λυδῶν δὲ λαὸς καὶ Φρυγῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 770; ξύμπας Ἀχαιῶν λαός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1243, compare “OT” 144, etc.)]; ἱππόται λαοί, i.e. the Thessalians, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.153, compare 9.54, “N.” 1.17. (The resemblance between λαός)] people and λᾶος stone (compare λᾶας) is implied in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.611 λαοὺς δὲ λίθους ποίησε Κρονίων (in the story of Niobe))]; and so [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus)] explains the word from the legend of Deucalion, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“O.” 9.46, compare 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 122, 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 1.7.2; but compare 4th c.BC: Philochorus Historicus 12.))] (From λᾱϝ-, as shown by the proper noun Λαϝοπτόλεμος [Refs (“GDI” 3151, ϝιόλαϝος [prev. work]3132 (from Corinth): hence probably λήϊτον.))]