δῆμος

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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)