Words the Bible translates as people
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- laosλαόςa people: a body of people bound together as one, set apart from those around them
- anthrōposἄνθρωποςa human being; a person of either sex, as distinct from God, angels, or animals.
- amעַםa people: a body of persons bound together as one community by shared descent, land, and loyalty
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- kinsman, blood relative: the members of one's own family or clan
- ishאִישׁa man: one human being singled out, most often a grown male, but just as readily a husband, a person of a certain kind, or simply "each one".
- adamאָדָםhumankind: the human being as a creature of the ground, used both for people as a whole and for any single person
- ochlosὄχλοςa crowd: a large, loosely-gathered body of ordinary people
- dēmosδῆμοςpeoplenot studied yet
- le'omלְאֹםa people or nation: a distinct body of people forming one ethnic or political group; a lofty, poetic word, most often used in the plural ("peoples")
- matמַתmen, people: an old poetic word for a group of men or people, found almost only in the plural and mostly in set phrases
- amעַםa people or nation: a body of persons bound together as one community, whether the peoples of the empire or the people of God
- ummahאֻמָּהa nation: one distinct people, marked out by descent and homeland, among the many that a world empire rules
- ummahאֻמָּהa people group held together by common descent: a clan-sized branch of one family, or a whole people among the peoples of the world
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