laos · people

What it means

laos (λαός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “people”.

Often the people of Israel.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A people, above all Israel, God's people.
2. The crowd gathered to listen.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

People; often the people of Israel, and also the people gathered.

• “He has visited … his people” Luke 1:68Luke 7:16
• “He will save his people” Matthew 1:21
• “Great joy that will be for all the people” Luke 2:10
• The people who listen to Jesus Luke 19:48
• A people taken from among the nations Acts 15:141 Peter 2:10

How we translate it

“People” 132 times, “peoples” 9. It is distinguished from ἔθνος, “nation”, and from ὄχλος, “crowd”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• people ×132
• peoples ×9

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×14
• Mark×2
• Luke×36
• John×2
• Acts×48
• Romans×8
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Titus×1
• Hebrews×13
• 1 Peter×3
• 2 Peter×1
• Jude×1
• Revelation×9

• Matthew 1:21

  And she will give birth to a son, and you will call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

• Matthew 2:4

  and gathering together all the high priests and scribes of the people, he was asking them where the Messiah is to be born.

• Matthew 2:6

  ‘And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you will come a leader who will shepherd my people Israel.’”

• Matthew 4:16

  the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light dawned on them.”

• Matthew 4:23

  And he went around in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

• Matthew 13:15

  For the heart of this people has grown dull, and with their ears they have heard with difficulty, and they have closed their eyes, so that they do not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I will heal them.’

• Matthew 15:8

  ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me;

• Matthew 21:23

  And when he had come into the temple, the high priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, saying, “By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?”

• Matthew 26:3

  Then the high priests and the elders of the people gathered in the courtyard of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

• Matthew 26:5

  But they were saying, “Not during the feast, so that there may not be an uproar among the people.”

• Matthew 26:47

  And while he was still speaking, look, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a large crowd with swords and clubs, from the high priests and elders of the people.

• Matthew 27:1

  When morning came, all the high priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus so as to put him to death.

• Matthew 27:25

  And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

• Matthew 27:64

  So order the grave to be made secure until the third day, so that his disciples may not come and steal him and say to the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

• Mark 7:6

  But he said to them, “Isaiah prophesied well about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

• Mark 14:2

  for they were saying, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar of the people.”

• Luke 1:10

  And the whole multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of incense.

• Luke 1:17

  And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”

• Luke 1:21

  And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they were wondering at his delay in the sanctuary.

• Luke 1:68

  “Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and accomplished redemption for his people,

• Luke 1:77

  to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins,

• Luke 2:10

  And the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for look, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people;

• Luke 2:31

  which you have prepared in the presence of all the peoples,

• Luke 2:32

  a light for revelation to the nations and glory for your people Israel.”

• Luke 3:15

  Now as the people were in expectation and all were wondering in their hearts about John, whether perhaps he might be the Messiah,

• Luke 3:18

  So, with many other exhortations as well, he was proclaiming the good news to the people.

• Luke 3:21

  Now it happened, when all the people were being immersed, and Jesus too had been immersed and was praying, that heaven was opened,

• Luke 6:17

  And coming down with them, he stood on a level place, and there was a large crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coast of Tyre and Sidon,

• Luke 7:1

  When he had completed all his words in the hearing of the people, he went into Capernaum.

• Luke 7:16

  And fear seized all, and they were glorifying God, saying, “A great prophet has been raised up among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”

• Luke 7:29

  And all the people when they heard, and the tax collectors, declared God righteous, having been immersed with the immersion of John;

• Luke 8:47

  And when the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared in the presence of all the people for what reason she had touched him, and how she had been healed immediately.

• Luke 9:13

  But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

• Luke 18:43

  And immediately he regained his sight and was following him, glorifying God; and all the people, seeing it, gave praise to God.

• Luke 19:47

  And he was teaching daily in the temple; but the high priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him, and so were the leading men of the people;

• Luke 19:48

  and they were not finding what they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

• Luke 20:1

  And it happened on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and proclaiming the good news, that the high priests and the scribes came up with the elders,

• Luke 20:6

  But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us; for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

• Luke 20:9

  And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad for a long time.

• Luke 20:19

  And the scribes and the high priests sought to lay hands on him in that very hour, but they feared the people; for they knew that he had told this parable against them.

And 101 more times.