ΛΑΟΙΣ, λαοις
LAOIS, laois
Sounds Like: lah-OIS
Translations: to peoples, to the peoples, to nations, to the nations
From the root: ΛΑΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a people, a nation, or a multitude of individuals. In this form, it is a plural noun in the dative case, indicating the indirect object of an action, often translated with 'to' or 'for'. It can refer to a specific group of people or to humanity in general.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2992 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Judges — 5:14
- 1 Chronicles — 16:8
- 2 Esdras — 9:14, 11:8, 20:31
- Psalms — 43:15, 56:10, 73:14, 76:15, 95:3, 107:4, 149:7
- Proverbs — 24:24
- Jeremiah — 6:27
- Zephaniah — 3:20
- Zechariah — 10:9, 12:2
- Acts of the Apostles — 4:27
- Revelation — 10:11
Josephus' Against Apion
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Judges — 5:14
- 1 Chronicles — 16:8
- 2 Chronicles — 32:13
- Ezra (Beta) — 9:2, 9:14
- Nehemiah — 1:8, 10:30
- Psalms — 43:15, 56:10, 73:14, 76:15, 95:3, 107:4, 149:7
- Proverbs — 24:39
- Jeremiah — 6:27
- Baruch — 2:4
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 3:4, 3:98, 6:25
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 3:98
- Hosea — 7:8
- Zephaniah — 3:20
- Zechariah — 10:9, 12:2
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
- ΛΑΟΙ — peoples, a people, nations, a nation
- 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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