δῆμος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁפָּחָה;]
1. a district, country.
2. the common people, the people generally; esp. the people assembled: Ac 12:2217:519:30, 33.†
SYN.: λαός, the people at large: δ., the people as a body politic; opp. 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 freq. in LXX and NT, and usually limited to the chosen people, Israel (cf. Cl. Rev., i, 42 f.; Cremer, 689).