ΔΗΜΟΣ, δημος
DĒMOS, dēmos
Sounds Like: DEE-mos
Translations: people, the people, common people, populace, a people, district
From the root: ΔΗΜΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the common people, the populace, or a community of people. It can also denote a specific district or locality where people reside. It is often used to distinguish the general population from rulers or elites.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1218 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 9 — 5:104, 11:239
- Book 10 — 1:11
- Book 13 — 7:229, 13:368
- Book 14 — 2:24, 8:154, 10:250, 11:294, 12:299, 13:335
- Book 16 — 2:38
- Book 18 — 6:208
- Book 19 — 1:26, 1:158, 2:189, 3:228
- Book 20 — 9:219
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 34:9
- Book Two — 13:14, 14:10, 14:27, 15:21, 16:6, 16:7, 17:1, 17:41, 17:45, 19:17, 21:35, 21:43, 21:47
- Book Three — 9:40
- Book Four — 1:38, 2:30, 3:1, 3:9, 3:38, 6:2, 7:29, 9:59, 11:26
- Book Five — 1:11, 1:27, 3:14, 6:4, 9:45, 10:1
- Book Six — 6:34
- Book Seven — 4:4, 5:5
Justin Martyr
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Numbers — 3:21, 3:27, 3:33, 4:42, 26:5, 26:6, 26:12, 26:13, 26:16, 26:17, 26:19, 26:20, 26:22, 26:24, 26:25, 26:26, 26:28, 26:29, 26:33, 26:34, 26:35, 26:36, 26:39, 26:40, 26:42, 26:43, 26:46, 26:48, 26:49, 26:57, 26:58
- Joshua — 7:17
- Judith — 8:18
- 1 Maccabees — 12:6, 14:25
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 9:16, 11:32
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 12:22
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΗΜΟΣ.
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.
- ΔΗΜ — people, a people, common people, populace, a populace
- ΔΗΜΟΙ — peoples, districts, villages, tribes
- ΔΗΜΟΙΣ — to the people, to the populace, to the common people, to the citizens, to the districts, to the communities
- ΔΗΜΟΝ — people, a people, the people, (to) the people, (to) a people
- ΔΗΜΟΣΙΑ — publicly, in public, openly, a public (thing), a public (place)
- ΔΗΜΟΣΟ — of the people, to the people, a people, the people
- ΔΗΜΟΤΙΚΟΝ — common, popular, democratic, of the people, the common people, the populace, a common thing
- ΔΗΜΟΤΙΚΟΣ — popular, of the people, common, public
- ΔΗΜΟΥ — of the people, of the populace, of the common people, of the district, of the land
- ΔΗΜΟΥΣ — people, a people, district, a district, community, a community
- ΔΗΜΩ — (to) the people, (to) a people, (to) the populace, (to) a populace
- ΔΗΜΩΝ — of people, of the people, of districts, of the districts, of communities, of the communities
- ΤΟΝΔΗΜΟΝ — the people, a people, the common people, the populace
- ΤΟΥΔΗΜΟΥ — (of) the people, (of) a people, (of) the populace, (of) a populace, (of) the common people, (of) a common people
- ΤΩΔΗΜΩ — to the people, for the people, to a people, for a people
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