λαός

laov" laov",
laou',
oJ ((cf. Curtius, sec. 535)); the Septuagint more than fifteen hundred times for !['; rarely for y/G and !aol]; (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
glw'ssa,
fulhv,
e[qno", ; ; ; ; (Rec. omits); ; (see
glw'ssa, 2);
pavnte"
oiJ
laoiv. ; ; especially of the people of Israel: ; ; ; ; (where it alternates with
e[qno"); ; ; ; , etc.; with
!Israhvl added, ; distinguished from
toi'"
e[qnesin, ,; ; the plural
laoiv
!Israhvl (R. V. the peoples of Isa.) seems to be used of the tribes of the people (like !yMi[', ; ; , etc.) in (where the plural was apparently occasioned by in its reference to Christ, cf. );
oiJ
presbuvteroi
tou'
laou', ; ,; ;
oiJ
grammatei'"
tou'
laou', ;
oiJ
prw'toi
tou'
laou', ;
tov
presbutevrion
tou'
laou', ;
a[rconte"
tou'
laou', . with a genitive of the possessor,
tou'
Qeou',
aujtou',
mou (i. e.
tou'
Qeou', Hebrew hw:hy? ![', !yhil?a>h; !['), the people whom God has chosen for himself, selected as peculiarly his own: ; ; ; ; without the article (; Sap. ); cf. Winer's Grammar, sec. 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, ; ; particularly to a church of Christians gathered from among the Gentiles, ; ff; ; with
eij"
peripoivhsin added, ;
periouvsio", , cf. ; .
oJ
laov" the people (of Israel) is distinguished from its princes and rulers ((1 Esdr. ; ; , ; etc.)), ; (here WH Tr marginal reading read
o[clo"); ; ; ; ; , etc.; from the priests, ; ,<<ref:BHS/GNT_Heb 7:27$$27>