Original Word: δῆμος, οῦ, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: démos
Phonetic Spelling: (day'-mos)
Short Definition: the people, multitude, rabble
Definition: properly: the people, especially citizens of a Greek city in popular assembly, but in NT, multitude, rabble.

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).]

STRONGS NT 1218: δῆμος

δῆμος, 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.]

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 dē̂mos

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