Strong's #2992: laos (pronounced lah-os')
apparently a primary word; a people (in general; thus differing from 1218, which denotes one's own populace):--people.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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laos
1) a people, people group, tribe, nation, all those who are of the same stock and language
2) of a great part of the population gathered together anywhere
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: apparently a primary word
Citing in TDNT: 4:29, 499
Usage:
This word is used 146 times:
Acts 21:39: "to speak unto the people."
Acts 21:40: "with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence,"
Acts 23:5: "evil of the ruler of thy people."
Acts 26:17: "thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto"
Acts 26:23: "and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles."
Acts 28:17: "them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the"
Acts 28:26: "Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear,"
Acts 28:27: "the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing,"
Romans 9:25: "Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people;"
Romans 9:25: "which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved."
Romans 9:26: "Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living"
Romans 10:21: "a disobedient and gainsaying people."
Romans 11:1: "God cast away his people? God forbid. For I"
Romans 11:2: "hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot"
Romans 15:10: "ye Gentiles, with his people."
Romans 15:11: "laud him, all ye people."
1 Corinthians 10:7: "as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink,"
1 Corinthians 14:21: "other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not"
2 Corinthians 6:16: "they shall be my people."
Titus 2:14: "purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works."
Hebrews 2:17: "the sins of the people."
Hebrews 4:9: "therefore a rest to the people of God."
Hebrews 5:3: "he ought, as for the people, so also for"
Hebrews 7:5: "a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is,"
Hebrews 7:11: "under it the people received the law,) what further need"
Hebrews 7:27: "his own sins, and then for the people's: for this"
Hebrews 8:10: "shall be to me a people:"
Hebrews 9:7: "for the errors of the people:"
Hebrews 9:19: "precept to all the people according to the law, he took the"
Hebrews 9:19: "and all the people,"
Hebrews 10:30: "The Lord shall judge his people."
Hebrews 11:25: "rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures"
Hebrews 13:12: "that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered"
1 Peter 2:9: "a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the"
1 Peter 2:10: "Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God:"
1 Peter 2:10: "a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but"
2 Peter 2:1: "also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers"
Jude 1:5: "how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt,"
Revelation 5:9: "and tongue, and people, and nation;"
Revelation 7:9: "nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood"
Revelation 10:11: "again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues,"
Revelation 11:9: "And they of the people and kindreds and tongues"
Revelation 14:6: "and tongue, and people,"
Revelation 17:15: "whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations,"
Revelation 18:4: "out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her"
Revelation 21:3: "they shall be his people, and God himself shall be"
