ΛΑΟΙ, λαοι
LAOI, laoi
Sounds Like: lah-OY
Translations: peoples, a people, nations, a nation
From the root: ΛΑΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a people, nation, or a multitude of individuals. It is often used in the plural to denote various peoples or nations. In a religious context, it can refer to God's chosen people or to the Gentiles.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2992 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 10:21
Barnabus
- Letter of Barnabas — 13:2
Codex Sinaiticus
- 2 Esdras — 20:32
- Psalms — 2:1, 44:6, 44:18, 66:4, 66:6, 96:6, 98:1, 116:1, 148:11
- Proverbs — 29:2
- Wisdom — 4:14
- Sirach — 44:15
- Isaiah — 33:3, 55:5
- Jeremiah — 28:58
- Lamentations — 0:18
- Joel — 2:6
- Habakkuk — 2:8, 2:13, 3:10
- Zechariah — 8:20, 8:22
- Acts of the Apostles — 4:25
- Romans — 15:11
- Revelation — 17:15, 21:3
- Epistle of Barnabas — 13:2
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 3:12
Justin Martyr
- First Apology of Justin Martyr — 49:1, 52:1
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 12:1, 14:4, 37:3, 38:3, 38:5, 64:4, 109:2, 109:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 25:23
- 1 Kings — 4:30, 8:43, 8:60
- 2 Chronicles — 6:33, 18:27
- Nehemiah — 10:31
- Psalms — 2:1, 44:6, 44:18, 66:4, 66:6, 96:6, 98:1, 116:1, 148:11
- Odes — 6:10
- Proverbs — 29:2
- Wisdom — 4:14
- Sirach — 44:15
- Isaiah — 33:3, 55:5
- Jeremiah — 28:58
- Lamentations — 1:18
- Ezekiel — 31:12
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 3:7, 5:19, 7:14
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 3:4
- Hosea — 9:1, 10:10
- Micah — 1:2, 4:1, 4:5, 6:2
- Joel — 2:6
- Habakkuk — 2:8, 2:13, 3:10
- Zechariah — 8:20, 8:22
- Enoch — 10:21
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 8 — 3:2
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
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
- ΛΑΙ — people, a people, nation, multitude
- ΛΑΟ — people, a people, nation, 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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