λαός

Vocabulary form:

laovV, -ou:, oJ

Definition:

people, crowd

Frequency:

142

GK:

3295

Root:

lao

Cognates:

Laity is actually from "lay" and the suffix "ity." "Lay" is from lai&kovV, which has the same meaning as laovV. The laity are a group of people distinct from the clergy, or any group of people separate from those belonging to a specific profession.

Mnemonics:

Laos is crowded with people.

Mnemonic Singing:

Our prayer attend.
Come, and thy people bless,
and give thy Word success.

Biblical Concordance

Acts 28:26	“‘Go to this people (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc), and say, “You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive”;
Acts 28:27	for the heart of this people (laou \| λαοῦ \| gen sg masc) has become dull, and they hear with difficultly with their ears, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I should heal them.’
Romans 9:25	As he also says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc), I will call ‘my people,’ (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc) and her who was not beloved, I will call ‘beloved.’”
Romans 9:26	“And in the very place where God said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ (laos \| λαός \| nom sg masc) there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
Romans 10:21	But concerning Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and argumentative people.” (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc)
Romans 11:1	So I ask, has God repudiated his people (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc)? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
Romans 11:2	God has not repudiated his people (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc) whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
Romans 15:10	And again it says, “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.” (laou \| λαοῦ \| gen sg masc)
Romans 15:11	And again, “Praise the Lord all you Gentiles, and let all the nations (laoi \| λαοί \| nom pl masc) extol him.”
1 Corinthians 10:7	So do not become idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people (laos \| λαός \| nom sg masc) sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”
1 Corinthians 14:21	In the Law it is written, “By people with strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people (laō \| λαῷ \| dat sg masc), yet not even in this way will they listen to me, says the Lord.”
2 Corinthians 6:16	What agreement can the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said: “I will dwell in their midst and walk among them; I will be their God and they will be my people.” (laos \| λαός \| nom sg masc)
Titus 2:14	who gave himself for us so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness and cleanse for himself a special people (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc), a zealot for good works.
Hebrews 2:17	Therefore he was obligated to become like his brothers in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people (laou \| λαοῦ \| gen sg masc).
Hebrews 4:9	Consequently there remains a Sabbath rest for the people (laō \| λαῷ \| dat sg masc) of God.
Hebrews 5:3	That is why he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins, just as he does for the sins of the people (laou \| λαοῦ \| gen sg masc).
Hebrews 7:5	And those of the sons of Levi who receive the priestly office have a mandate according to the law to collect a tithe from the people (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc), that is, from their fellow countrymen, although they too come from the loins of Abraham.
Hebrews 7:11	If, then, perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people (laos \| λαός \| nom sg masc) had received the law), what further need would there have been for another kind of priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek, rather than one designated after the order of Aaron?
Hebrews 7:27	He has no need to offer up daily sacrifices, like those other high priests, first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people (laou \| λαοῦ \| gen sg masc), for this he did once for all when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 8:10	For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. I will be their God and they will be my people (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc).
Hebrews 9:7	however into the second room only the high priest entered, and that only once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins committed unintentionally by the people (laou \| λαοῦ \| gen sg masc).
Hebrews 9:19	For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people (laō \| λαῷ \| dat sg masc), taking the blood of calves and goats together with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc),
Hebrews 10:30	For we know the one who said, “Vengeance belongs to me, I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc)
Hebrews 11:25	choosing rather to suffer hardship along with the people (laō \| λαῷ \| dat sg masc) of God than to enjoy the transient pleasure of sin.
Hebrews 13:12	So Jesus also suffered outside the city gate in order to sanctify the people (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc) through his own blood.
1 Peter 2:9	But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people (laos \| λαός \| nom sg masc) for his own possession, so that you may declare the glorious deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:10	At one time you were not a people (laos \| λαός \| nom sg masc), but now you are the people (laos \| λαός \| nom sg masc) of God. You were shown no mercy, but now have received mercy.
2 Peter 2:1	But there were also false prophets among the people (laō \| λαῷ \| dat sg masc), just as there will be false teachers among you, who will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
Jude 1:5	Now I want to remind you, though you once knew all this, that the Lord, having saved his people (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc) out of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
Revelation 5:9	And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe, language, people (laou \| λαοῦ \| gen sg masc), and nation.
Revelation 7:9	After this I looked, and behold, a vast multitude that no one could count, people from every nation, tribe, cultural group (laōn \| λαῶν \| gen pl masc), and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Revelation 10:11	Then they said to me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples (laois \| λαοῖς \| dat pl masc) and nations and languages and kings.”
Revelation 11:9	For three and a half days those from every people (laōn \| λαῶν \| gen pl masc) and tribe and language and nation will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb.
Revelation 13:7	The beast was allowed to make war against the saints and to conquer them. And he was given authority over every tribe and people (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc) and language and nation.
Revelation 14:6	Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth — to every nation, tribe, language, and people (laon \| λαόν \| acc sg masc).
Revelation 17:15	Then the angel said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples (laoi \| λαοί \| nom pl masc), multitudes, nations, and languages.
Revelation 18:4	Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people (laos \| λαός \| voc sg masc), lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive her plagues;
Revelation 21:3	And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people (laoi \| λαοί \| nom pl masc), and he will be with them as their God.

λαός

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