Word Summary
dēmos: a district or country, the common people, the people assembled
Original Word: δῆμοςTransliteration: dēmos
Phonetic Spelling: (day'-mos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a district or country, the common people, the people assembled
Meaning: a district or country, the common people, the people assembled
Strong's Concordance
people.
From deo; the public (as bound together socially) -- people.
see GREEK deo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1218: δῆμοςδῆμος,
δήμου ὁ,
the people, the mass of the people assembled in a public place:
Acts 12:22;
Acts 19:33;
ἄγειν (
R G),
εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τόν δῆμον:
Acts 17:5 (
L T Tr WH προάγειν);
Acts 19:30. (From
Homer down.)
[SYNONYMS: δῆμος, λαός: in classic Greek δῆμος denotes the people as organized into a body politic; λαός, the unorganized people at large. But in biblical Greek λαός, is used especially of the chosen people of God; δῆμος, on the other hand (found only in Acts) denotes the people of a heathen city. Cf. Trench, § xcviii.; Schmidt, chapter 199.]