People

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PEOPLE.—This is the translation used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] for a large number of Hebrew and Greek terms. In some cases ambiguity occurs, as the pl. ‘peoples’ is not used in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] except in Rev_10:11; Rev_17:15. Thus ‘people’ is used sometimes of the people of Israel, and often of heathen nations. RV [Note: Revised Version.] uses ‘peoples’ freely, and this makes the meaning much clearer in such passages as Psa_67:4, Isa_55:4; Isa_60:2 etc. (see art. Nations, also preface to RV [Note: Revised Version.] ).
A special phrase ‘the people of the land’ occurs frequently in the OT, especially in Jeremiah, Ezeklel, 2Kings., and 2 Ch. In most of these cases it means the general body of the people, the common people as opposed to the courtiers or the ruling class. In Gen_23:7; Gen_23:12-13, Num_14:9 the term is applied to non-Israelites. In the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah the ‘people of the land’ are the half-heathen, half-Jewish population with whom the less scrupulous Jews intermarried, but who were avoided by the stricter party represented by Ezra and Nehemiah (Ezr_10:2; Ezr_10:11, Neh_10:30-31; cf. Neh_9:1, Neh_9:30). The same phrase was used by the Rabbis to describe the common people, who were lax in observing the Mosaic law (Joh_7:49).
W. F. Boyd.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


pē?p'l: In English Versions of the Bible represents something over a dozen Hebrew and Greek words. Of these, in the Old Testament, עם, ‛am, is overwhelmingly the most common (about 2,000 times), with לאום, le'ōm, and גּוי, gōy, next in order; but the various Hebrew words are used with very little or no difference in force (e.g. Pro_14:28; but, on the other hand, in Ps 44 contrast Psa_44:12 and Psa_44:14). Of the changes introduced by the Revised Version (British and American) the only one of significance (cited explicitly in the Preface to the English Revised Version) is the frequent use of the plural ?peoples? (strangely avoided in the King James Version except Rev_10:11; Rev_17:15), where other nations than Israel are in question. So, for instance, in Psa_67:4; Isa_55:4; Isa_60:2, with the contrast marked in Psa_33:10 and Psa_33:12; Psa_77:14 and Psa_77:15, etc. In the New Testament, λάος, láos, is the most common word, with ὄχλος, óchlos, used almost as often in the King James Version. But in the Revised Version (British and American) the latter word is almost always rendered ?multitude,? ?people? being retained only in Luk_7:12; Act_11:24, Act_11:26; Act_19:26, and in the fixed phrase ?the common people? (ὁ πολὺς ὄχλος, ho polús óchlos) in Mar_12:37; Joh_12:9, Joh_12:12 margin (the retention of ?people? would have been better in Joh_11:42, also), with ?crowd? (Mat_9:23, Mat_9:25; Act_21:35). The only special use of ?people? that calls for attention is the phrase ?people of the land.? This may mean simply ?inhabitants,? as Eze_12:19; Eze_33:2; Eze_39:13; but in 2Ki_11:14, etc., and the parallel in 2 Chronicles, it means the people as contrasted with the king, while in Jer_1:18, etc., and in Eze_7:27; Eze_22:29; Eze_46:3, Eze_46:9, it means the common people as distinguished from the priests and the aristocracy. A different usage is that for the heathen (Gen_23:7, Gen_23:12, Gen_23:13; Num_14:9) or half-heathen (Ezr_9:1, Ezr_9:2; Ezr_10:2, Ezr_10:11; Neh_10:28-31) inhabitants of Palestine. From this last use, the phrase came to be applied by some rabbis to even pure-blooded Jews, if they neglected the observance of the rabbinic traditions (compare Joh_7:49 the King James Version). For ?people of the East? see CHILDREN OF THE EAST.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.





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