λαός

λαοῦ, ὁ ((cf. Curtius, § 535)); the Sept. more than fifteen hundred times for עַם; rarely for גּוי and לְאֹם; (from Homer down); people;
1. a people, tribe, nation, all those who are of the same stock and language: universally, of any people; joined with γλῶσσα, φυλή, ἔθνος, Rev 5:9; Rev 7:9; Rev 10:11; Rev 11:9; Rev 13:7 (Rec. omits); Rev 14:6; (see γλῶσσα, 2); πάντες οἱ λαοί. 2:31; Rom 15:11; especially of the people of Israel: Mt 4:23; Mt 13:15; Mk 7:6; Lk 2:10; Jn 11:50 (where it alternates with ἔθνος); ; Acts 3:23; Heb 2:17; Heb 7:11, etc.; with Ἰσραήλ added, Acts 4:10; distinguished from τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, Acts 26:17, Acts 26:23; Rom 15:10; the plural λαοί Ἰσραήλ (R. V. the peoples of Isa.) seems to be used of the tribes of the people (like עַמִּים, Gen 49:10; Deut 32:8; Isa 3:13, etc.) in Acts 4:27 (where the plural was apparently occasioned by Ps 2:1 in its reference to Christ, cf. Acts 4:25); οἱ πρεσβύτεροι τοῦ λαοῦ, Mt 21:23; Mt 26:3, Mt 26:47; Mt 27:1; οἱ γραμματεῖς τοῦ λαοῦ, Mt 2:4; οἱ πρῶτοι τοῦ λαοῦ, Lk 19:47; τό πρεσβυτέριον τοῦ λαοῦ, Lk 22:66; ἄρχοντες τοῦ λαοῦ, Acts 4:8. with a genitive of the possessor, τοῦ Θεοῦ, αὐτοῦ, μου (i. e. τοῦ Θεοῦ, Hebrew יְהוָה עַם, הָאֱלֹהִים עַם), the people whom God has chosen for himself, selected as peculiarly his own: Heb 11:25; Mt 2:6; Lk 1:68; Lk 7:16; without the article Jude 1:5 (Sir. 46:7; Wis. 18:13); cf. Winer's Grammar, § 19, 1; the name is transferred to the community of Christians, as that which by the blessing of Christ has come to take the place of the theocratic people of Israel, Heb 4:9; Rev 18:4; particularly to a church of Christians gathered from among the Gentiles, Acts 15:14; Rom 9:25ff; 1 Pet 2:10; with εἰς περιποίησιν added, 1 Pet 2:9; περιούσιος, Tit 2:14, cf. Acts 18:10; Lk 1:17. ὁ λαός the people (of Israel) is distinguished from its princes and rulers ((1 Esdr. 1:10 1 Esdr. 5:45; Judith 8:9, 11; etc.)), Mt 26:5; Mk 11:32 (here WH Tr marginal reading read ὄχλος); Mk 14:2; Lk 20:19; Lk 22:2; Lk 23:5; Acts 5:26, etc.; from the priests, Heb 5:3; Heb 7:5, Heb 7:27.
2. indefinitely, of a great part of the population gathered together anywhere: Mt 27:25; Lk 1:21; Lk 3:15; Lk 7:1, Lk 7:29; Lk 8:47; Lk 9:13; Lk 18:43, etc.; τό πλῆθος τοῦ λαοῦ, Lk 1:10. (The Gospels of Mark and John use the word but three times each. Synonym: see δῆμος, at the end)