Lexical Summary dēmosios: public Original Word: δημόσιοςTransliteration: dēmosios Phonetic Spelling: (day-mos'ee-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: public Meaning: public Strong's Concordance common, open, public. From demos; public; (feminine singular dative case as adverb) in public -- common, openly, publickly. see GREEK demos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1219: δημόσιοςδημόσιος, δημοσίᾳ, δημοσιον, especially frequent in Attic; belonging to the people or state, public (opposed to ἴδιος): Acts 5:18; in dative feminine δημοσίᾳ used adverbially (opposed to ἰδίᾳ) (cf. Winers Grammar, 591 (549) note), publicly, in public places, in view of all: Acts 16:37; Acts 18:28; δημόσιος καί κατ' οἴκους, Acts 20:20; (2 Macc. 6:10; 3Macc. 2:27; in Greek writings also by public authority, at the public expense). |
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