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Name of God’s Son

ΛΑΙ, λαι

LAI, lai

Sounds Like: lah-EE

Translations: people, a people, nation, multitude

From the root: ΛΑΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word is an inflected form of the noun 'λαός' (LAOS), meaning 'people' or 'nation'. In this form, it is the dative singular, indicating 'to the people' or 'for the people'. It can also be the nominative or vocative plural, meaning 'peoples' or 'O peoples'. It refers to a group of individuals, often a specific nation or a general multitude.

Inflection: Dative, Singular; or Nominative, Plural; or Vocative, Plural

Strong’s number: G2992 (Lookup on BibleHub)


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From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΛΑΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

  • ΚΑΙΙΛΕΩΣ — people, a people, multitude, nation
  • ΛʼΑΟΣ — people, a people, nation, a nation, multitude, a multitude
  • ΛΑΟ — people, a people, nation, a nation
  • ΛΑΟΙ — peoples, a people, nations, a nation
  • ΛΑΟΙΣ — to peoples, to the peoples, to nations, to the nations
  • ΛΑΟΝ — people, a people, nation, a nation, multitude, a multitude
  • ΛΑΟΣ — people, a people, nation, a nation
  • ΛΑΟΥ — of people, of a people, of nation, of a nation, of crowd, of a crowd
  • ΛΑΟΥΣ — people, a people, nations
  • ΛΑΣ — people, a people, nation, a nation, multitude, a multitude
  • ΛΑΩ — people, a people, nation, a nation
  • ΛΑΩΝ — (of) peoples, (of) nations, (of) crowds
  • ΛΕΩΣ — (of) people, (to) people, (for) people, (among) people, (in) people
  • ΤΟΝΛΑΟΝ — the people, the crowd, a people, a crowd

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