This Eng. word is used in the NT indefinitely for 'persons,' there being no word in the Gr. (Mr 6:5; Joh 5:3; Ac 5:16). But in the OT the word has the definite meaning of nation or people, even Pr 30:26 'The conies are but a feeble folk,' having this meaning. In the metrical version of '/Psalm/100/3/type/bbe'>Ps 100:3, 'flock' should be 'folk,' corresponding to 'people' in the prose version. So the author wrote
The conies are only a feeble people, but they make their houses in the rocks;
And he was unable to do any work of power there, but only to put his hands on one or two persons who were ill, and make them well.
In these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.
And numbers of people came together from the towns round about Jerusalem, with those who were ill and those who were troubled with unclean spirits: and they were all made well.
Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain