δῆμος, -ου, ὁ

[in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁפָּחָה ;]

__1. a district, country.

__2. the common people, the people generally; esp. the people assembled: Act.12:22 17:5 19:30 33.

† SYN.: λαός, the people at large: δ. the people as a body politic; opposite to δ. is ὄχλος, the unorganized multitude. ἔθνος, in sing. means in NT as in Gk. writers generally, a nation, but in pl. denotes the rest of mankind apart from the Jews: Gentiles. λ. also, rare in cl. (Att... λεώς), is frequently in LXX and NT, and usually limited to the chosen people, Israel (cf. Cl. Rev. i, 42 f.; Cremer, 689). (AS)

a district; country; the common people; the people; the people assembled