Библейское слово «δημός» в греческих словарях

δημός ὁ жир, сало, тук Hom., Hes., Arph., Arst.

δῆμος, дор. δᾶμος ὁ

1) земля, страна, край, область (Λυκίης Hom.; Ὑπερβορέων Pind.): ~ ὀνείρων Hom. царство сновидений;

2) население (πᾶς ~ Hom.; Βακτρίων ~ Aesch.);

3) народ (βασιλεύς τε πᾶς τε ~ Hom.);

4) простой народ (οἱ εὐδαίμονες καὶ οἱ τοῦ δήμου Her.): ἐπαναστάντες τοῖς δυνατοῖς καὶ ὄντες ~ (constr. ad sensum) Thuc. восставшие против знати народные массы; τοῦ πολλοῦ δήμου εἷς Luc. человек из народа, простолюдин;

5) солдатская масса, солдаты (ὁ ~ τῶν στρατιωτῶν Xen.);

6) гражданин: οὐκ ἔοικεν δῆμον ἐόντα παρὲξ ἀγορευέμεν Hom. не пристало гражданину говорить неправду;

7) демократический образ правления, демократия (τῶν πολιτειῶν δύο — ~ καὶ ὀλιγαρχία Arst.; τὸν δῆμον καταστῆσαι Xen., Arst.);

8) демократическое государство (οἱ δῆμοι Dem.; κύριος ὁ ~ ἐν ταῖς δημοκρατίαις Arst.);

9) народное собрание (ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ ~ Xen., Dem.; λέγειν ἐν τῷ δήμῳ Plat.);

10) дем (часть филы; в Аттике их было сначала 100, впоследствии — 174; по реформе Клисфена они были сведены, в 10 фил) (κατὰ φύλας καὶ δήμους καὶ φρατρίας Arst.; κατὰ δήμους καὶ γένη Plut.; иногда pl. τῶν δήμων Χολαργεύς Plut.).

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) Источник: STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0

δῆμος,
Doric dialect δᾶμος (compare infr. IV), ὁ, district, country, land, Βοιωτοὶ μάλα πίονα δ. ἔχοντες [Refs 8th c.BC+] the land of dreams, [Refs]
2 the people, inhabitants of such a district, πόληΐ τε παντί τε δήμῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II hence (since the common people lived in the country, the chiefs in the city), the commons, common people, δήμου ἀνήρ, opposed to βασιλεύς, ἔξοχος ἀνήρ, etc., [NT+8th c.BC+] being a commoner, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to οἱ εὐδαίμονες, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to οἱ παχέες, [Refs]; opposed to οἱ δυνατοί, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; = Latin plebs, [Refs 1st c.BC+]unus de plebe, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; in an army, rank and file, opposed to officers, ὁ δ. τῶν στρατιωτῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2 metaphorically, δ. ἰχθύων [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὀρνέων [Refs 4th c.AD+]
III in a political sense, the sovereign people, the free citizens, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III.2 popular government, democracy, opposed to ὀλιγαρχίη, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to οἱ τύραννοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; δήμου κατάλυσις [Refs 5th c.BC+]; δ. καταστῆσαι, καταπαύειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: in plural, democracies, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
III.3 the popular assembly, λέγειν ἐν τῷ δ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δ., formula in Inscrr., as [Refs]; of the assembly of Oxyrhynchus, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
IV township, commune (= Doric dialect κώμη accusative to [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.:—Doric dialect δᾶμος, [Refs]: in indications of origin, Σωφάνης ἐκ δ. Δεκελεῆθεν [Refs 5th c.BC+]
V name for a prostitute, [Refs 7th c.BC+]
VI faction in the circus, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
VII =κατανάγκη, Ps.-[Refs 1st c.AD+]. (Perh. cognate with Sanskrit dā´ti 'reap', δαίομαι, δατέομαι.) Источник: STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0