Gloss
people, crowd; often denotes the people of God (either Israel or, by extension, the Christian church)
Forms of the word
Dictionary
λαός, -οῦ, ὁ
Greek transliteration
laos
Simplified transliteration
laos
Numbers
Strong's number
2992
GK Number
3295
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
142
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
n-2a
Definition
Greek-English Concordance for λαός
| Acts 6:8 | And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people (laō | λαῷ | dat sg masc). |
| Acts 6:12 | And they incited the people (laon | λαόν | acc sg masc) and the elders and the scribes, and they suddenly moved in and seized him and brought him before the council, |
| Acts 7:17 | “But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, our people (laos | λαός | nom sg masc) increased and multiplied in Egypt, |
| Acts 7:34 | Surely I have seen the oppression of my people (laou | λαοῦ | gen sg masc) in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’ |
| Acts 10:2 | a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people (laō | λαῷ | dat sg masc), and prayed to God continually. |
| Acts 10:41 | not to all the people (laō | λαῷ | dat sg masc) but to witnesses who had been previously chosen by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. |
| Acts 10:42 | And he commanded us to preach to the people (laō | λαῷ | dat sg masc) and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead. |
| Acts 12:4 | When he had seized him, he put him in prison, handing him over to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, wishing after the Passover to bring him out to the people (laō | λαῷ | dat sg masc). |
| Acts 12:11 | When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people (laou | λαοῦ | gen sg masc) were expecting.” |
| Acts 13:15 | After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, “My brothers, if there is any among you with a word of encouragement for the people (laon | λαόν | acc sg masc), say it.” |
| Acts 13:17 | The God of this people (laou | λαοῦ | gen sg masc) Israel chose our fathers and made the people (laon | λαόν | acc sg masc) great during their stay in the land of Egypt; then with uplifted arm he led them out of it. |
| Acts 13:24 | Before his coming John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people (laō | λαῷ | dat sg masc) of Israel. |
| Acts 13:31 | and he was seen for many days by those who had gone up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people (laon | λαόν | acc sg masc). |
| Acts 15:14 | Simeon has recounted how God first concerned himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people (laon | λαόν | acc sg masc) for his name. |
| Acts 18:10 | because I am with you and no one will lay a hand on you to do you harm, for I have many people (laos | λαός | nom sg masc) in this city.” |
| Acts 19:4 | Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people (laō | λαῷ | dat sg masc) to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.” |
| Acts 21:28 | crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against our people (laou | λαοῦ | gen sg masc), our law, and this place. And besides, he even brought Greeks into the temple and has made this holy place unclean.” |
| Acts 21:30 | Then all the city was stirred up, and a mob of people (laou | λαοῦ | gen sg masc) quickly formed. They seized Paul and dragged him outside the temple, and immediately the gates were shut. |
| Acts 21:36 | for the crowd of people (laou | λαοῦ | gen sg masc) kept following and shouting, “Away with him!” |
| Acts 21:39 | But Paul replied, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no obscure city. I beg you, let me speak to the people.” (laon | λαόν | acc sg masc) |
| Acts 21:40 | And when he had given him permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned with his hand to the people (laō | λαῷ | dat sg masc). And when there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew language, saying: |
| Acts 23:5 | And Paul said, “I did not realize, brothers, that he was high priest; for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil about the ruler of your people.’” (laou | λαοῦ | gen sg masc) |
| Acts 26:17 | I will rescue you from your people (laou | λαοῦ | gen sg masc) and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you |
| Acts 26:23 | that the Christ was to suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people (laō | λαῷ | dat sg masc) and to the Gentiles.” |
| Acts 28:17 | And it happened that after three days Paul called together the leaders of the Jews. And when they gathered, he said to them: “My brothers, though I have done nothing against our people (laō | λαῷ | dat sg masc) or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. |
