dēmos

Strong’sG1218

the people, multitude, rabble

stem dēm-4 times in the New Testament3 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

δῆμος, -ου, ὁ

[in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁפָּחָה;]

1. a district, country.

2. the common people, the people generally; esp. the people assembled: Ac 12:22 17:5 19:30, 33.†

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.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

δῆμος,
Doric dialect δᾶμος (compare infr. IV), ὁ, district, country, land, Βοιωτοὶ μάλα πίονα δ. ἔχοντες Refs 8th c.BC+ the land of dreams, Refs
2 the people, inhabitants of such a district, πόληΐ τε παντί τε δήμῳ Refs 8th c.BC+
II hence (since the common people lived in the country, the chiefs in the city), the commons, common people, δήμου ἀνήρ, opposed to βασιλεύς, ἔξοχος ἀνήρ, etc., NT+8th c.BC+ being a commoner, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to οἱ εὐδαίμονες, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to οἱ παχέες, Refs; opposed to οἱ δυνατοί, Refs 5th c.BC+; = Latin plebs, Refs 1st c.BC+unus de plebe, Refs 2nd c.AD+; in an army, rank and file, opposed to officers, ὁ δ. τῶν στρατιωτῶν Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 metaphorically, δ. ἰχθύων Refs 4th c.BC+; ὀρνέων Refs 4th c.AD+
III in a political sense, the sovereign people, the free citizens, Refs 5th c.BC+
III.2 popular government, democracy, opposed to ὀλιγαρχίη, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to οἱ τύραννοι, Refs 5th c.BC+; δήμου κατάλυσις Refs 5th c.BC+; δ. καταστῆσαι, καταπαύειν, Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, democracies, Refs 4th c.BC+
III.3 the popular assembly, λέγειν ἐν τῷ δ. Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δ., formula in Inscrr., as Refs; of the assembly of Oxyrhynchus, Refs 3rd c.AD+
IV township, commune (= Doric dialect κώμη accusative to Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.:—Doric dialect δᾶμος, Refs: in indications of origin, Σωφάνης ἐκ δ. Δεκελεῆθεν Refs 5th c.BC+
V name for a prostitute, Refs 7th c.BC+
VI faction in the circus, Refs 3rd c.AD+
VII ={κατανάγκη}, Ps.-Refs 1st c.AD+. (Perh. cognate with Sanskrit dā´ti 'reap', δαίομαι, δατέομαι.)

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

people3×crowd1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

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

dēmstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

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… Iasōnou zētale autoin proagara eis ton dēmon;… to bring them out to the people.

Acts 19:30“crowd”Paulou de boulorōntou 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… kataseiarantos tan cheiran thelate apologorō to dēmo.… could make his defense to the people.