noun · masculine
dēmos
Greekδῆμος (dēmos)
Strong’sG1218
the people, multitude, rabble
stem dēm-4 times in the New Testament3 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
δῆμος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁפָּחָה;]
SYN.: λαός, the people at large: δ., the people as a body politic; opp. 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 freq. in LXX and NT, and usually limited to the chosen people, Israel (cf. Cl. Rev., i, 42 f.; Cremer, 689).
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1218 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidday'-mos
the public (as bound together socially)
Fromfrom G1210;
King Jamespeople.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Every form
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | dēmos1×δῆμος | dēmois |
| object accusative | dēmon2×δῆμον | dēmoin |
| direct address vocative | dēmor | dēmoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | dēmou | dēmoiu |
| to, for dative | dēmo1×δήμῳ | dēmoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
dēmo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
dēmos“people”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 12:22“people”tos de dēmos epifōnate; Theou fōnas kai ouk anthrōpou.And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”
dēmon“crowd”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 17:5“people”zēlaratois de tois Ioudaiois kai proslamberatois toiu agoraioiu anēroin tinoin ponēroin kai ochlopoiaratois thorubale tan politan, kai efistanaratois ta oikia Iasōnou zētale autoin proagara eis ton dēmon;The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.
Acts 19:30“crowd”Paulou de boulerōtou eiserchara eis ton dēmon ouk easale auton tois mathētois;Paul wanted to go before the assembly, but the disciples would not allow him.
dēmo“people”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 19:33“people”ek de tou ochlou sumbibazala Alexandron proballaratoiu auton toiu Ioudaioiu, tos de Alexandros kataseiaratos tan cheiran thelate apologerō to dēmo.The Jews in the crowd pushed Alexander forward to explain himself, and he motioned for silence so he could make his defense to the people.