'Local' in the Bible

So he returned to Judah, and said, “I cannot find her; also the local men said, ‘There was no prostitute around here.’”

Three days later he called together the leaders of the Jews; and when they had gathered, he said to them, “Kinsmen, though I have done nothing against our people or against the customs of our fathers, yet I was turned over as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.