ΛΑΟΥΣ, λαους
LAOUS, laous
Sounds Like: LAH-oos
Translations: people, a people, nations
From the root: ΛΑΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a people, a nation, or a multitude of individuals. It is often used to describe a specific group of people, such as the people of Israel, or more generally, the inhabitants of a country or region. In the provided examples, it refers to multiple groups of people or nations.
Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2992 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 11:16
Codex Sinaiticus
- 2 Esdras — 19:22, 19:24
- Psalms — 7:9, 9:9, 17:48, 43:3, 46:4, 55:8, 66:5, 95:10, 95:13, 97:9, 98:2, 101:23
- Job — 36:20, 36:31
- Wisdom — 8:14
- Habakkuk — 2:5, 2:10
- Zephaniah — 3:9
- Zechariah — 11:10, 12:6, 14:12
- Shepherd of Hermas — 23:3
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 18 — 9:352
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Samuel — 22:48
- 1 Kings — 9:7
- 2 Chronicles — 32:17
- Nehemiah — 9:22, 9:24
- Psalms — 7:9, 9:9, 17:48, 43:3, 46:4, 55:8, 66:5, 95:10, 95:13, 97:9, 98:2, 101:23
- Psalms of Solomon — 5:13, 9:4, 17:31, 17:32, 17:41
- Job — 36:20, 36:31
- Wisdom — 8:14
- Ezekiel — 3:6
- Micah — 4:13
- Nahum — 3:4
- Habakkuk — 2:5, 2:10
- Zephaniah — 3:9
- Zechariah — 11:10, 12:6, 14:12
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
- Vision 4 — 2:3
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
- 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
- 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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