'People of the Land' in the Bible

And Abraham rose up and bowed to the people of the land, to the Hittites.

And Abraham bowed before the people of the land.

And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, "{If only you will hear me}--I give the price of the field. Take [it] from me that I may bury my dead there."

Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He [was] the one who sold [food] to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.