Greek noun (masculine) · G1218
δῆμος
demosday'-mos
a district; the common people
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dēmos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1218is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1218
the public (as bound together socially)
The King James renders it: people.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
demos is rendered "a district; the common people". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a district".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 12:22And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”
Acts 12:22δῆμος
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Acts.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: a district, and the common people.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a districtcountry. | Tagged as
| WhereActs 12:22And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!” |
| the common peoplethe people generally | Tagged as
| WhereActs 12:22And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!” |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| δημόσιος | demosios | public | Uses4 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- δῆμον2
- δῆμος1
- δήμῳ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular2N-ASM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1N-DSM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
Acts
four uses
And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!”
- δῆμοςdemosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: the people
The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.
- δῆμονdemonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: people
Paul wanted to go before the assembly, but the disciples would not allow him.
- δῆμονdemonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: people
The Jews in the crowd pushed Alexander forward to explain himself, and he motioned for silence so he could make his defense to the people.
- δήμῳdemonoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: people
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.