'People' in the Bible

and behold, a great wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young people and they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

“Truly then you are the people,And with you wisdom will die!

“He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth’s peopleAnd makes them wander in a pathless waste.

“But He has made me a byword of the people,And I am one at whom men spit.

“He has no offspring or posterity among his people,Nor any survivor where he sojourned.

“In a moment they die, and at midnightPeople are shaken and pass away,And the mighty are taken away without a hand.

So that godless men would not ruleNor be snares of the people.

“Do not long for the night,When people vanish in their place.

To bring rain on a land without people,On a desert without a man in it,