'Populace' in the Bible

"Now it was the Governor's custom at the Festival to release some one prisoner, whomsoever the populace desired;

The assembled people began to shout, “It’s the voice of a god and not of a man!”

And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring them to the populace,

And on Paul's purposing to enter in unto the populace, the disciples were not suffering him,

and out of the multitude they put forward Alexander -- the Jews thrusting him forward -- and Alexander having beckoned with the hand, wished to make defence to the populace,

Then Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all you who are present here with us, you see this man about whom the entire Jewish populace petitioned me both in Jerusalem and here, shouting loudly that he ought not to live any longer.