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Source: archive.org: Hastings' Dictionary of the BiblePeople refers to:—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 Revelation 10:11; Revelation 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 Psalms 67:4 , Isaiah 55:4; Isaiah 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 Genesis 23:7; Genesis 23:12-13 , Numbers 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 ( Ezra 10:2; Ezra 10:11 , Nehemiah 10:30-31; cf. Nehemiah 9:1 , Nehemiah 9:30 ). The same phrase was used by the Rabbis to describe the common people, who were lax in observing the Mosaic law ( John 7:49 ).
W. F. Boyd.
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Search found 727 books and stories containing People, The people, The peoples, People's, Peoples; (plurals include: Peoples, The peoples, The peopleses, People'ses, Peopleses). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
A Dictionary of the Bible (Hastings) (by Andrew Robert Fausset)
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (by Philip Schaff)
Hymn III < [Selections from the Hymns and Homilies of Ephraim the Syrian and from the Demonstrations of Aphrahat the Persian Sage.]
Hymn VII < [Selections from the Hymns and Homilies of Ephraim the Syrian and from the Demonstrations of Aphrahat the Persian Sage.]
Chapter XI - In Opposition to Those Who Foolishly Imagine that Christ Converted the People to Himself by Magical Arts < [The Harmony of the Gospels.]
International Democracy < [April 1940]
Paganism and Religion < [July 1937]
Rational Leadership of < [October 1965]
Garga Samhita (English) (by Danavir Goswami)
Verse 2.2.22 < [Chapter 2 - Description of Girirāja Govardhana’s Birth]
Verse 5.9.33 < [Chapter 9 - The Happiness of the Yadus]
Verse 5.6.30 < [Chapter 6 - Seeing Śrī Mathurā]
Ante-nicene Fathers (by Alexander Roberts)
A Canticle of Mar Jacob the Teacher on Edessa < [Memoirs of Edessa And Other Ancient Syriac Documents.]
Chapter XV < [Apocrypha of the New Testament.]
Of Sacrifices < [Part I]
The Book of the Cave of Treasures (by E. A. Wallis Budge)
Part 17 - The story of Solomon < [The Fourth Thousand Years—Fom Reu to Ehud]
Part 2 - Description of the Flood < [The Third Thousand Years—From the Flood to the reign of Reu]
Part 4 - The Apostasy of Solomon < [The Fifth Thousand Years—From Ehud to Cyrus]