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|strgr=from [[δέω]]; the [[public]] (as [[bound]] [[together]] socially): [[people]].
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|txtha=δήμου ὁ, the [[people]], the [[mass]] of the [[people]] [[assembled]] in a [[public]] [[place]]: ἄγειν (R G), εἰσελθεῖν [[εἰς]] [[τόν]] δῆμον: L T Tr WH προάγειν); [[Homer]] [[down]].) [ SYNONYMS: [[δῆμος]], [[λαός]]: in classic Greek [[δῆμος]] denotes the [[people]] as organized [[into]] a [[body]] [[politic]]; [[λαός]], the unorganized [[people]] at [[large]]. But in biblical Greek [[λαός]], is used [[especially]] of the [[chosen]] [[people]] of God; [[δῆμος]], on the [[other]] [[hand]] ([[found]] [[only]] in Acts) denotes the [[people]] of a heathen [[city]]. Cf. Trench, § xcviii.; Schmidt, [[chapter]] 199.]
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