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Lexicon :: Strong's G2992 - laos

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λαός
Transliteration
laos (Key)
Pronunciation
lah-os'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:29,499

Trench's Synonyms: xcviii. λαός, ἕθνος, δῆμος, ὄχλος.

Strong’s Definitions

†λαός laós, lah-os'; apparently a primary word; a people (in general; thus differing from G1218, which denotes one's own populace):—people.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 143x

The KJV translates Strong's G2992 in the following manner: people (143x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 143x
The KJV translates Strong's G2992 in the following manner: people (143x).

  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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†λαός laós, lah-os'; apparently a primary word; a people (in general; thus differing from G1218, which denotes one's own populace):—people.
STRONGS G2992:
λαός, λαοῦ, ὁ ((cf. Curtius, § 535)); the Sept. more than fifteen hundred times for עַם; rarely for גּוי and לְאֹם; (from Homer down); people;
1. a people, tribe, nation, all those who are of the same stock and language: universally, of any people; joined with γλῶσσα, φυλή, ἔθνος, Revelation 5:9; Revelation 7:9; Revelation 10:11; Revelation 11:9; Revelation 13:7 (Rec. omits); Revelation 14:6; 17:15 (see γλῶσσα, 2); πάντες οἱ λαοί. 2:31; Romans 15:11; especially of the people of Israel: Matthew 4:23; Matthew 13:15; Mark 7:6; Luke 2:10; John 11:50 (where it alternates with ἔθνος); John 18:14; Acts 3:23; Hebrews 2:17; Hebrews 7:11, etc.; with Ἰσραήλ added, Acts 4:10; distinguished from τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, Acts 26:17, 23; Romans 15:10; the plural λαοί Ἰσραήλ (R. V. the peoples of Isa.) seems to be used of the tribes of the people (like עַמִּים, Genesis 49:10; Deuteronomy 32:8; Isaiah 3:13, etc.) in Acts 4:27 (where the plural was apparently occasioned by Psalm 2:1 in its reference to Christ, cf. Acts 4:25); οἱ πρεσβύτεροι τοῦ λαοῦ, Matthew 21:23; Matthew 26:3, 47; Matthew 27:1; οἱ γραμματεῖς τοῦ λαοῦ, Matthew 2:4; οἱ πρῶτοι τοῦ λαοῦ, Luke 19:47; τό πρεσβυτέριον τοῦ λαοῦ, Luke 22:66; ἄρχοντες τοῦ λαοῦ, Acts 4:8. with a genitive of the possessor, τοῦ Θεοῦ, αὐτοῦ, μου (i. e. τοῦ Θεοῦ, Hebrew יְהוָה עַם, הָאֱלֹהִים עַם), the people whom God has chosen for himself, selected as peculiarly his own: Hebrews 11:25; Matthew 2:6; Luke 1:68; Luke 7:16; without the article Jude 1:5 (Sir. 46:7; Wis. 18:13); cf. Winer's Grammar, § 19, 1; the name is transferred to the community of Christians, as that which by the blessing of Christ has come to take the place of the theocratic people of Israel, Hebrews 4:9; Revelation 18:4; particularly to a church of Christians gathered from among the Gentiles, Acts 15:14; Romans 9:25ff; 1 Peter 2:10; with εἰς περιποίησιν added, 1 Peter 2:9; περιούσιος, Titus 2:14, cf. Acts 18:10; Luke 1:17. ὁ λαός the people (of Israel) is distinguished from its princes and rulers ((1 Esdr. 1:10 1 Esdr. 5:45; Judith 8:9, 11; etc.)), Matthew 26:5; Mark 11:32 (here WH Tr marginal reading read ὄχλος); Mark 14:2; Luke 20:19; Luke 22:2; Luke 23:5; Acts 5:26, etc.; from the priests, Hebrews 5:3; Hebrews 7:5, 27.
2. indefinitely, of a great part of the population gathered together anywhere: Matthew 27:25; Luke 1:21; Luke 3:15; Luke 7:1, 29; Luke 8:47; Luke 9:13; Luke 18:43, etc.; τό πλῆθος τοῦ λαοῦ, Luke 1:10. (The Gospels of Mark and John use the word but three times each. Synonym: see δῆμος, at the end)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
49:10
Deuteronomy
32:8
Psalms
2:1
Isaiah
3:13
Matthew
2:4; 2:6; 4:23; 13:15; 21:23; 26:3; 26:5; 26:47; 27:1; 27:25
Mark
7:6; 11:32; 14:2
Luke
1:10; 1:17; 1:21; 1:68; 2:10; 3:15; 7:1; 7:16; 7:29; 8:47; 9:13; 18:43; 19:47; 20:19; 22:2; 22:66; 23:5
John
11:50; 18:14
Acts
3:23; 4:8; 4:10; 4:25; 4:27; 5:26; 15:14; 18:10; 26:17; 26:23
Romans
9:25; 15:10; 15:11
Titus
2:14
Hebrews
2:17; 4:9; 5:3; 7:5; 7:11; 7:27; 11:25
1 Peter
2:9; 2:10
Jude
1:5
Revelation
5:9; 7:9; 10:11; 11:9; 13:7; 14:6; 17:15; 18:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2992 matches the Greek λαός (laos),
which occurs 74 times in 59 verses in '1Ki' in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (1Ki 1:39–1Ki 18:40)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:39 - There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:40 - And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:2 - The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:8 - And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, too many to be numbered or counted for multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:9 - Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:34 - And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:7 - As soon as Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day, who has given to David a wise son to be over this great people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:16 - ‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:30 - And listen to the plea of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen in heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:32 - then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:33 - “When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and if they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:34 - then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:36 - then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41 - “Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name’s sake

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43 - hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:44 - “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the LORD toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:51

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:51 - (for they are your people, and your heritage, which you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace).

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:52

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:52 - Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, as you declared through Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:56

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:56 - “Blessed be the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:59

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:59 - Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:60

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:60 - that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:66

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:66 - On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:7 - then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:3 - And they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:6 - Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:7 - And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:9 - And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:10 - And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,’ thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:13 - And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel that the old men had given him,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:15 - So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the LORD that he might fulfill his word, which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:16 - And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So Israel went to their tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:23 - “Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:27 - If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:28 - So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:30 - Then this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:31 - He also made temples on high places and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:33 - After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:2 - “Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:16 - and the troops who were encamped heard it said, “Zimri has conspired, and he has killed the king.” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:21 - Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts. Half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:22 - But the people who followed Omri overcame the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. So Tibni died, and Omri became king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:21 - And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:22 - Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left a prophet of the LORD, but Baal’s prophets are 450 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:24 - And you call upon the name of your god, and I will call upon the name of the LORD, and the God who answers by fire, he is God.” And all the people answered, “It is well spoken.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:30 - Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been thrown down.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:36 - And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:37

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:37 - Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:39

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:39 - And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:40 - And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.

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