Demos denotes a gathered public body before which people shout, are brought, entered, or addressed.

The occurrences depict a public body of people: it shouts in Acts 12:22, is the body before which others are sought or entered in Acts 17:5 and Acts 19:30, and is addressed in Acts 19:33.

1. A gathered public body · dominant

   The nominative form marks the shouting body in Acts 12:22, where the APB renders, “Then the people were shouting.” The accusative forms occur as the body before which people are sought in Acts 17:5 and which Paul intended to enter in Acts 19:30; the dative form in Acts 19:33 marks the audience before which Alexander wished to defend himself.

   Acts 12:22Acts 17:5Acts 19:30Acts 19:33

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across all four verses, the APB presents the term as “the people,” including a shouting body, the body before which persons are brought or entered, and the audience addressed. This rendering is confirmation of the verses' public-group setting rather than a precise lexical equivalence.