Strong's Concordance démos: a district or country, the common people, esp. the people assembled Original Word: δῆμος, οῦ, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: démos Phonetic Spelling: (day'-mos) Definition: a district or country, the common people, the people assembled Usage: properly: the people, especially citizens of a Greek city in popular assembly, but in NT, multitude, rabble. HELPS Word-studies 1218 dḗmos (from 1210 /déō, "to bind, tie") – people bound (tied) together by similar laws or customs (like citizens in an ancient Greek city forming an assembly, cf. 1577 /ekklēsía). In the NT, 1218 (dḗmos) refers to people unified in conviction and showing it in public opinion, i.e. their "collective persuasion." [1218 (dḗmos) is the root of the English word, "democracy." Ancient Greek used 1218 (dḗmos) for "the body politic" (J. Thayer).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin Definition a district or country, the common people, esp. the people assembled NASB Translation assembly (2), people (2). 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.) Strong's Exhaustive Concordance people. From deo; the public (as bound together socially) -- people. see GREEK deo Forms and Transliterations δήμοι δήμοις δημον δήμον δῆμον δημος δήμος δῆμος δήμου δήμους δημω δήμω δήμῳ δήμων demo dēmō dḗmoi dḗmōi demon dêmon dēmon dē̂mon demos dêmos dēmos dē̂mosLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Acts 12:22 N-NMSGRK: ὁ δὲ δῆμος ἐπεφώνει Θεοῦ NAS: The people kept crying out, The voice KJV: And the people gave a shout, INT: and [the] people were crying out Of a god Acts 17:5 N-AMS Acts 19:30 N-AMS Acts 19:33 N-DMS Strong's Greek 1218 |
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