עַם
people
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
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Genesis 20 verses
- Genesis 11:6 עַ֤ם n c ms Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
- Genesis 14:16 הָ/עָֽם ptcl def.art + n c ms He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
- Genesis 17:16 עַמִּ֖ים n c mp I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
- Genesis 19:4 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
- Genesis 26:10 הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
- Genesis 26:11 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
- Genesis 27:29 עַמִּ֗ים n c mp Let peoples serve you, Nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, Blessed be everyone who blesses you."
- Genesis 28:3 עַמִּֽים n c mp May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
- Genesis 32:7 הָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
- Genesis 33:15 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
- Genesis 34:16 לְ/עַ֥ם prep + n c ms then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
- Genesis 34:22 לְ/עַ֣ם prep + n c ms Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
- Genesis 35:6 הָ/עָ֥ם ptcl def.art + n c ms So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Bethel), he and all the people who were with him.
- Genesis 41:55 הָ/עָ֛ם ptcl def.art + n c ms When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."
- Genesis 47:21 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.
- Genesis 47:23 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.
- Genesis 48:4 עַמִּ֑ים n c mp and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.'
- Genesis 48:19 לְּ/עָ֖ם prep + n c ms His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations."
- Genesis 49:10 עַמִּֽים n c mp The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
- Genesis 50:20 עַם n c ms As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
Exodus 107 verses
- Exodus 1:20 הָ/עָ֛ם ptcl def.art + n c ms God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
- Exodus 3:12 הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms He said, "Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain."
- Exodus 3:21 הָֽ/עָם ptcl def.art + n c ms I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.
- Exodus 4:16 הָ/עָ֑ם ptcl def.art + n c ms He will be your spokesman to the people; and it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth, and you will be to him as God.
- Exodus 4:21 הָ/עָֽם ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
- Exodus 4:30 הָ/עָֽם ptcl def.art + n c ms Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
- Exodus 4:31 הָ/עָ֑ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
- Exodus 5:4 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The king of Egypt said to them, "Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!"
- Exodus 5:6 בָּ/עָ֔ם prep det + n c ms The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
- Exodus 5:7 לָ/עָ֛ם prep det + n c ms "You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Exodus 5:10 הָ/עָם֙ הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms The taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, This is what Pharaoh says: "I will not give you straw.
- Exodus 5:12 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
- Exodus 5:22 לָ/עָ֣ם prep det + n c ms Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
- Exodus 5:23 לָ/עָ֣ם עַמֶּֽ/ךָ prep det + n c ms n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people; neither have you delivered your people at all."
- Exodus 6:7 לְ/עָ֔ם prep + n c ms and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
- Exodus 7:14 הָ/עָֽם ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is stubborn. He refuses to let the people go.
- Exodus 8:8 וּ/מֵֽ/עַמִּ֑/י הָ/עָ֔ם conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs ptcl def.art + n c ms Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, "Entreat Yahweh, that he take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to Yahweh."
- Exodus 8:29 וּ/מֵ/עַמּ֖/וֹ הָ/עָ֔ם conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said, "Behold, I go out from you, and I will pray to Yahweh that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only don't let Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to Yahweh."
- Exodus 8:32 הָ/עָֽם ptcl def.art + n c ms Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn't let the people go.
- Exodus 9:7 הָ/עָֽם ptcl def.art + n c ms Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he didn't let the people go.
- Exodus 11:2 הָ/עָ֑ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold."
- Exodus 11:3 הָ/עָ֖ם הָ/עָֽם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
- Exodus 11:8 הָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, 'Get out, and all the people who follow you; and after that I will go out.'" He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
- Exodus 12:27 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'" The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
- Exodus 12:33 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."
- Exodus 12:34 הָ/עָ֛ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
- Exodus 12:36 הָ/עָ֛ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.
- Exodus 13:3 הָ/עָ֗ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
- Exodus 13:17 הָ/עָם֒ הָ/עָ֛ם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"
- Exodus 13:18 הָ/עָ֛ם ptcl def.art + n c ms but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 13:22 הָ/עָֽם ptcl def.art + n c ms the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart from before the people.
- Exodus 14:5 הָ/עָ֑ם הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"
- Exodus 14:13 הָ/עָם֮ ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.
- Exodus 14:31 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant Moses.
- Exodus 15:13 עַם n c ms "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
- Exodus 15:14 עַמִּ֖ים n c mp The peoples have heard. They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.
- Exodus 15:16 עַמְּ/ךָ֙ עַם n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms n c ms Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone; Until your people pass over, Yahweh, Until the people pass over who you have purchased.
- Exodus 15:24 הָ/עָ֛ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The people murmured against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?"
- Exodus 16:4 הָ/עָ֤ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Then said Yahweh to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.
- Exodus 16:27 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.
- Exodus 16:30 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms So the people rested on the seventh day.
- Exodus 17:1 הָ/עָֽם ptcl def.art + n c ms All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.
- Exodus 17:2 הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"
- Exodus 17:3 הָ/עָם֙ הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"
- Exodus 17:4 לָ/עָ֣ם prep det + n c ms Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me."
- Exodus 17:5 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, "Walk on before the people, and take the elders of Israel with you, and take the rod in your hand with which you struck the Nile, and go.
- Exodus 17:6 הָ/עָ֑ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
- Exodus 18:10 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
- Exodus 18:13 הָ/עָ֑ם הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened on the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.
- Exodus 18:14 לָ/עָ֑ם לָ/עָ֔ם הָ/עָ֛ם prep det + n c ms prep det + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms When Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, "What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?"
- Exodus 18:15 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.
- Exodus 18:18 הָ/עָ֥ם ptcl def.art + n c ms You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
- Exodus 18:19 לָ/עָ֗ם prep det + n c ms Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
- Exodus 18:21 הָ֠/עָם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
- Exodus 18:22 הָ/עָם֮ ptcl def.art + n c ms Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.
- Exodus 18:23 הָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."
- Exodus 18:25 הָ/עָ֑ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
- Exodus 18:26 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms They judged the people at all times. They brought the hard causes to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
- Exodus 19:5 הָ֣/עַמִּ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
- Exodus 19:7 הָ/עָ֑ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Yahweh commanded him.
- Exodus 19:8 הָ/עָ֤ם הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms All the people answered together, and said, "All that Yahweh has spoken we will do." Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.
- Exodus 19:9 הָ/עָם֙ הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever." Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
- Exodus 19:10 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
- Exodus 19:11 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms and be ready against the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
- Exodus 19:12 הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms You shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, 'Be careful that you don't go up onto the mountain, or touch its border. Whoever touches the mountain shall be surely put to death.
- Exodus 19:14 הָ/עָ֑ם הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
- Exodus 19:15 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms He said to the people, "Be ready by the third day. Don't have sexual relations with a woman."
- Exodus 19:16 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
- Exodus 19:17 הָ/עָ֛ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.
- Exodus 19:21 בָּ/עָ֑ם prep det + n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, charge the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.
- Exodus 19:23 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said to Yahweh, "The people can't come up to Mount Sinai, for you charged us, saying, 'Set bounds around the mountain, and sanctify it.'"
- Exodus 19:24 וְ/הָ/עָ֗ם conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh said to him, "Go down and you shall bring Aaron up with you, but don't let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break forth on them."
- Exodus 19:25 הָ/עָ֑ם ptcl def.art + n c ms So Moses went down to the people, and told them.
- Exodus 20:18 הָ/עָם֩ הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
- Exodus 20:20 הָ/עָם֮ ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."
- Exodus 20:21 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
- Exodus 21:8 לְ/עַ֥ם prep + n c ms If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.
- Exodus 23:27 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
- Exodus 24:2 וְ/הָ/עָ֕ם conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."
- Exodus 24:3 לָ/עָם֙ הָ/עָ֜ם prep det + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."
- Exodus 24:7 הָ/עָ֑ם ptcl def.art + n c ms He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient."
- Exodus 24:8 הָ/עָ֑ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, "Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words."
- Exodus 32:1 הָ/עָ֔ם הָ/עָ֜ם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."
- Exodus 32:3 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.
- Exodus 32:6 הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
- Exodus 32:9 הָ/עָ֣ם עַם ptcl def.art + n c ms n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen these people, and, behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
- Exodus 32:17 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, "There is the noise of war in the camp."
- Exodus 32:21 הָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?"
- Exodus 32:22 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.
- Exodus 32:25 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),
- Exodus 32:28 הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
- Exodus 32:30 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin."
- Exodus 32:31 הָ/עָ֤ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.
- Exodus 32:34 הָ/עָ֗ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin."
- Exodus 32:35 הָ/עָ֑ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
- Exodus 33:1 וְ/הָ/עָ֔ם conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.'
- Exodus 33:3 עַם n c ms to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."
- Exodus 33:4 הָ/עָ֗ם ptcl def.art + n c ms When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.
- Exodus 33:5 עַם n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you."
- Exodus 33:8 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.
- Exodus 33:10 הָ/עָם֙ הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their tent door.
- Exodus 33:12 הָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.'
- Exodus 33:16 וְ/עַמֶּ֔/ךָ וְ/עַמְּ/ךָ֔ הָ/עָ֔ם conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms ptcl def.art + n c ms For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"
- Exodus 34:9 עַם n c ms He said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us; although this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."
- Exodus 34:10 עַמְּ/ךָ֙ הָ֠/עָם n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms ptcl def.art + n c ms He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.
- Exodus 36:5 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms They spoke to Moses, saying, "The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make."
- Exodus 36:6 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, "Let neither man nor woman make anything else for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing.
Leviticus 13 verses
- Leviticus 4:3 הָ/עָ֑ם ptcl def.art + n c ms if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without blemish to Yahweh for a sin offering.
- Leviticus 9:7 הָ/עָ֑ם הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said to Aaron, "Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as Yahweh commanded."
- Leviticus 9:15 הָ/עָ֑ם לָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms prep det + n c ms He presented the people's offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and killed it, and offered it for sin, like the first.
- Leviticus 9:18 לָ/עָ֑ם prep det + n c ms He also killed the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled on the altar round about,
- Leviticus 9:22 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.
- Leviticus 9:23 הָ/עָ֑ם הָ/עָֽם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the people.
- Leviticus 9:24 הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms There came forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed the burnt offering and the fat upon the altar: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
- Leviticus 10:3 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, "'I will show myself holy to those who come near me, And before all the people I will be glorified.'" Aaron held his peace.
- Leviticus 16:15 לָ/עָ֔ם prep det + n c ms "Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
- Leviticus 16:24 הָ/עָ֔ם הָ/עָֽם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.
- Leviticus 20:24 הָֽ/עַמִּֽים ptcl def.art + n c mp But I have said to you, "You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey." I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.
- Leviticus 20:26 הָֽ/עַמִּ֖ים ptcl def.art + n c mp You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.
- Leviticus 26:12 לְ/עָֽם prep + n c ms I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
Numbers 60 verses
- Numbers 11:1 הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms The people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of Yahweh: and when Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Yahweh burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
- Numbers 11:2 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.
- Numbers 11:8 הָ/עָ֨ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
- Numbers 11:10 הָ/עָ֗ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.
- Numbers 11:11 הָ/עָ֥ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why haven't I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
- Numbers 11:12 הָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that you should tell me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land which you swore to their fathers?
- Numbers 11:13 הָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Whence should I have flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
- Numbers 11:14 הָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
- Numbers 11:16 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
- Numbers 11:17 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.
- Numbers 11:18 הָ/עָ֨ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you shall eat.
- Numbers 11:21 הָ/עָ֕ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
- Numbers 11:24 הָ/עָ֔ם הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent.
- Numbers 11:32 הָ/עָ֡ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
- Numbers 11:33 בָ/עָ֔ם בָּ/עָ֔ם prep det + n c ms prep det + n c ms While the flesh was yet between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
- Numbers 11:34 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.
- Numbers 11:35 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms From Kibrothhattaavah the people traveled to Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.
- Numbers 12:15 וְ/הָ/עָם֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days: and the people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again.
- Numbers 12:16 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
- Numbers 13:18 הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms and see the land, what it is; and the people who dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
- Numbers 13:28 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
- Numbers 13:30 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
- Numbers 13:31 הָ/עָ֑ם ptcl def.art + n c ms But the men who went up with him said, We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
- Numbers 13:32 הָ/עָ֛ם ptcl def.art + n c ms They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up the inhabitants of it; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.
- Numbers 14:1 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
- Numbers 14:11 הָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
- Numbers 14:13 הָ/עָ֥ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them;
- Numbers 14:14 הָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you Yahweh are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.
- Numbers 14:15 הָ/עָ֥ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,
- Numbers 14:16 הָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.
- Numbers 14:19 הָ/עָ֥ם לָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms prep det + n c ms Pardon, Please, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
- Numbers 14:39 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.
- Numbers 15:26 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.
- Numbers 16:47 בָּ/עָ֑ם הָ/עָֽם prep det + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Aaron took as Moses spoke, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made atonement for the people.
- Numbers 20:1 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
- Numbers 20:3 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!
- Numbers 20:20 בְּ/עַ֥ם prep + n c ms He said, You shall not pass through. Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
- Numbers 21:2 הָ/עָ֤ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
- Numbers 21:4 הָ/עָ֖ם ptcl def.art + n c ms They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
- Numbers 21:5 הָ/עָ֗ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.
- Numbers 21:6 בָּ/עָ֗ם הָ/עָ֑ם עַם prep det + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms n c ms Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
- Numbers 21:7 הָ/עָ֨ם הָ/עָֽם ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms The people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you; pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us. Moses prayed for the people.
- Numbers 21:16 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
- Numbers 21:18 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms The well, which the princes dug, Which the nobles of the people dug, With the scepter, [and] with their poles. From the wilderness [they traveled] to Mattanah;
- Numbers 22:3 הָ/עָ֛ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
- Numbers 22:5 עַמּ֖/וֹ עַ֣ם n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they abide over against me.
- Numbers 22:6 הָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Please come now therefore curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may strike them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.
- Numbers 22:11 הָ/עָם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.
- Numbers 22:12 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.
- Numbers 22:17 הָ/עָ֥ם ptcl def.art + n c ms for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Please come therefore, and curse this people for me.
- Numbers 22:41 הָ/עָֽם ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.
- Numbers 23:9 עָם֙ n c ms For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
- Numbers 23:24 עָם֙ n c ms Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion does he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, Drink the blood of the slain.
- Numbers 24:14 לְ/עַמִּ֑/י הָ/עָ֥ם לְ/עַמְּ/ךָ֖ prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs ptcl def.art + n c ms prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Now, behold, I go to my people: come, [and] I will advertise you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.
- Numbers 25:1 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:
- Numbers 25:2 לָ/עָ֔ם הָ/עָ֔ם prep det + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people ate, and bowed down to their gods.
- Numbers 25:4 הָ/עָ֔ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.
- Numbers 31:3 הָ/עָ֣ם ptcl def.art + n c ms Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm you men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.
- Numbers 32:15 הָ/עָ֥ם ptcl def.art + n c ms For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people.
- Numbers 33:14 לָ/עָ֖ם prep det + n c ms They traveled from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
About this entry
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עם — transliterated ʻam — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “people.” Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 11:6. It appears 1,655 verses across 39 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its most common vocabulary. The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. It shares a root with עמם, עם and עמה. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5971 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1,655
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1,655 distinct verses.
- 39 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 39 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #24
- by frequency
- Top 25 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 24 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1,655 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1,655 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 874 verses · 53%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 393 verses · 24%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 388 verses · 23%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: People 1,181×, All the people 214×, Among the people 24×
- American Standard Version†: People 987×, All the people 192×, Peoples 95×
- Berean Standard Bible†: People 1,246×, Peoples 103×, Troops 83×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: People 1,394×, Peoples 144×, People of 83×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5971 across 1,857† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 216 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 5 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5971 across 1,857† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 273 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5971 across 1,748† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 86 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 116 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5971 across 1,856† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 58 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
18 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 18 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
עם I
- 1. a people, nation (sometimes ‖ גּוֹי), n. coll. (sg. Ex 21:8 Jos 17:14, 15, 17; 2 S 17:29 + often, or pl. Ex 20:15; 24:2; Je 5:31 + often, or both in same clause Ex 1:20; 2 S 13:24): עַם אֶחָד = all mankind Gn 11:6 (J); peoples in gen. 27:29 (J; ‖ לְאֻמִּים), Ex 19:5 (E), Dt 2:25; 4:6 + often Dt, Ne 13:24 + often; קְהַל עַמִּים Gn 28:3 (P) an assembly (multitude) of peoples, 48:4 (P), Ez 23:24; 32:3 (+ דַבִּים); one’s own people Je 46:16 ψ 45:11; Ru 1:10, 15, 16(×2) + (on עַמִּי נָדִיב Ct 6:12 v. especially Bu); particular peoples, Egypt Gn 41:40 (E), Ex 1:22 (E), Ne 9:10 +; עַם־אֲרָם Am 1:5; עַם־כְּמוֹשׁ (i.e. Moab) Nu 21:29 (JE), Je 48:46; but especially Isr. Ex 1:20 (E) + often; עַם־בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ v 9 (J); called ע׳ יהוה Nu 11:29 (E), 1 S 2:24 +, and (by י׳) עַמִּי Ex 3:7; 5:1 (J) + often (all periods); קְהַל עַם־הָאֱלֹהִים Ju 20:2, עַם־הַקָּהָל Lv 16:33 (P), קְהַל עָם ψ 107:32; especially הָעָם הַזֶּה (often in contempt or disgust) Nu 11:1, 12, 13 +; fig. of ants Pr 30:25, the shaphan v 26, locusts Jo 2:2, cf. לְעַם לְצִיִּים ψ 74:14 (where read לְעַם צִיִּים Hup-Now).—On Ju 1:16 v. עֲמָלֵקִי. e.g. Exodus 21:8
- 2. = smaller units, e.g.
- a. inhab. of a city Gn 19:4 (J), 1 S 9:12, 13; Je 29:16, 25; 2 Ch 31:4 + (Je 8:5 del. יְרוּשׁ׳ 𝔊 Gie Co Rothst). e.g. Genesis 19:4
- b. inhab. of a locality Je 37:12 [appar. not = tribe, Dt 33:3 read עַמּוֹ 𝔊 Di Dr, Ho 10:14; Ju 5:8, 14 read בְּעָרֶיךָ We Now; v. sub d]. e.g. Jeremiah 37:12
- c. retainers, followers Gn 14:16; 32:8; 33:15; 35:6; Ju 3:18; 8:5; 2 S 15:17; Je 41:13, 14 +. e.g. Genesis 14:16
- d. people bearing arms 1 S 11:11; 1 K 20:10 +; ע׳ כָּבֵד Nu 20:20 (JE), i.e. a powerful force; עַם הַצָּבָא Nu 31:32 (P), ע׳ הַמִּלְחָמָה Jos 8:1, 3, 11; 10:7; 11:7 (all JE); so prob. Ju 5:8 a (fighting) band; perhaps also v 14 (read sg.? v. GFM Bu). e.g. 1 Samuel 11:11
- 3. = common people Je 21:7; 22:4, Lv 4:27 (opp. ruler v 22), Ne 5:1 (opp. יְהוּדִים), 7:5 (opp. rulers). e.g. Jeremiah 21:7
- 4. people in gen., persons Gn 50:20 (E), so appar. כָּל־הָעָם אֲשֵׁר וגו׳ Ex 33:16 (J), Nu 11:34 (J), Jos 5:5(×2) (D), Ju 9:36 (as sg.), v 37 (as pl.), Je 36:9; persons labouring 1 K 9:23; superior persons Jb 12:2 (iron.); עַם עוֹלָם Ez 26:20 people of long ago (now in Sheʾôl). e.g. Genesis 50:20
- 5. phrases are:
- a. (עַמָּהּ, עַמִּי, עַמְּךָ) כְּנֵי עַמּוֹ members of one’s people, compatriots, fellow-countrymen, etc. Nu 22:5 (E), Gn 23:11 (P) Lv 19:18 (H), Ju 14:16, 17; Ez 33:2, 12 +. e.g. Numbers 22:5
- b. בְּנֵי הָעָם = common people (v. 3) 2 K 23:6; Je 26:23 +; people in gen. שַׁעַר בְּנֵי הָעָם Je 17:19 i.e. public gate 2 Ch 35:5, 12. e.g. 2 Kings 23:6
- c. עַם הָאָרֶץ the people at large, as a body 2 K 11:14, 18, 19, 20; 15:5; 16:15; 21:24(×2) +, Je 37:2; 44:21 Lv 20:2 (H), Gn 23:7, 12, 13 (P); common people Je 34:19, cf. דַּלַּת ע׳ הא׳ 2 K 24:14; disting. from prince Ez 45:22; 46:3, 9, from priests Hg 2:4 Zc 7:5; = Canaanites Nu 14:9 (JE), cf. עַמֵּי הָאָרֶץ 1 Ch 5:25; mixed post-exil. population Ezr 4:4. e.g. 2 Kings 11:14
- d. עַמֵּי הָאָרֶץ usually peoples of the earth Jos 4:24 (D), 2 Ch 32:19 +; of heathen peoples about and in Pal. after exile Ezr 10:2, 11; traders Ne 10:31; עַמֵּי הָאֲרָצוֹת 9:30; 10:29; 2 Ch 32:13. e.g. Joshua 4:24
- e. מִשְׁפְּחוֹת עַמִּים ψ 96:7 = 1 Ch 16:28 (cf. ψ 22:23). e.g. Psalms 96:7
- f. בַּת־עַמִּי = people personif. Is 22:4; Je 4:11 + 7 times Je + 6:14 (van d. H.; om. בַּת Baer Gi), La 2:11; 3:48; 4:3, 6, 10; בְּתוּלַת בַּת־עַמִּי Je 14:17. e.g. Isaiah 22:4
- g. designations of Isr. are: עַם־קָדוֹשׁ Dt 7:6 + 3 times, ע׳ קְדוֹשִׁים Dn 8:24, ע׳ (ה)קֹדֶשׁ Is 62:12; 63:18; Dn 12:7; ע׳ סְגֻלָּה Dt 7:6; 14:2; 26:18. e.g. Deuteronomy 7:6
- h. of foreign (non-Isr.) peoples: ע׳ נָכְרִי Ex 21:8 (E), ע׳ אַחֵר Dt 28:32, and especially from language, ע׳ עִמְקֵי שָׂפָה Ez 3:5 cf. v 6, כִּלְשׁוֹן עַם וָעָם Ne 13:24 cf. Est 1:22(×2); 3:12, ע׳ לֹעֵג ψ 114:1. e.g. Exodus 21:8
- i. עַם עֶבְרָתִי Is 10:6, ע׳ חֶרְמִי 34:11, ע׳־מִבְחָרָיו Dn 11:15, עַמֵּי תּוֹעֵבוֹת הָאֵלָּה Ezr 9:14; לֹא עַם בִּינוֹת Is 27:11.—For עַם־עוֹלָם Is 44:7 read (אֹתִיּוֹת) מֵעוֹלָם (מִי הִשְׁמִי)עַ Oort Du Kit CheHpt cf. PerlesAnal. 40, 64. e.g. Isaiah 10:6
עם II [m.] kinsman* kinsman, later development of i. עַם RSK 58
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Word origin
II. n.m. Gn 11:6 (v. infr.) people (NH id., plebeian, common man; 𝔗 עַמָּא people, pl. peoples, tribes, etc.; Syriac ܥܰܡܳܐ; Arabic عَمٌّ v. supr.; orig. meaning prob. those united, connected, related, cf. WeGGN 1893, 480);—abs. עַם Gn 11:6 +, עַם Ju 9:36 +, הָעָם Jos 8:11 +; cstr. עַם Nu 21:29 +; sf. עַמִּי Ex 3:7 +, עַמְּךָ 22:27 +, etc.; pl. עַמִּים Is 2:3 +, עֲמָמִים (cf. Biblical Aramaic) Ne 9:22; cstr. עַמֵּי 1 K 8:43 +, עַמְמֵי Ne 9:24; pl. c. sf. v. ii. עַם;—(Thes cites foll. as f. וְחָטָאת עַמֶּ֑ךָ Ex 5:16 [but corrupt and unintellig.; read perhaps וְחַטָאתָ לְע׳, so 𝔊 𝔖 Di]; Ju 18:7 [but ישֶׁבֶת must agree with lost word city, or the like, v. GFM]; Je 8:5 [but read שׁוֹבַב for שׁוֹבְבָה Gie]);—
III. n.[m.] kinsman* kinsman, later development of i. עַם RSK 58; 2nd ed. 72. (on father’s side) (Arabic عَمٌّ paternal uncle, etc. v. I. עמם; cf. perhaps TelAm. ammu, kinsmen (?); on Nab. עם ancestor cf. Lzb151, 499; v. also especially NesEg 187, ZAW xvi (1896), 322 f. Krenkelib. viii (1888), 280–84);—sf. עַמִּי in בֶּן־עַמִּי (q.v.), and n.pr. sqq.; elsewhere pl. sf. עַמֶּיךָ Nu 27:13; 31:2 (Lv 19:16 read עַמְּךָ 𝔊 Sam), + (poss.) עֲמָמֶיךָ Ju 5:14; עַמָּיו Gn 25:8 + 15 times, עַמֶּיהָ 17:14 + 3 times; read עַמַּי (for MT עַמִּי, 1עַם; cf. Krenkell.c. 281) Gn 49:29 and perhaps Ju 14:3 (cf. Lv 21:14); according to Buhl Kit also 2 K 4:13;—father’s kinsmen: וַיֵּאָסֵף אֶל־עַמָּיו Gn 25:8 (of joining kinsmen in Sheʾôl), so v 17; 35:29; 49:33; Nu 20:24; Dt 32:50, cf. Gn 49:29 (v. supr.), Nu 27:13; 31:2; Dt 32:50 (all P); וְנִכְרְתָה הַנֶּפֶשׁ מֵעַמֶּיהָ Gn 17:14 (severed from living kinsmen), so Lv 7:20, 21, 25, 27; 19:8; 23:29; Nu 9:13, מִקֶּרֶב עַמֶּיהָ Ex 31:14, cf. 30:33, 38; Lv 17:9 (all PH); מֵעַמָּיו יִקַּח אִשָּׁה 21:14 (H), and perhaps Ju 14:3 (sim. 1עַם: [ם—ָ, הּ—ָ] מִקֶּרֶב עַמּוֹ Lv 17:4, 10; 18:29 +); other combin. Ju 5:14 (si vera l., read perhaps בְּעַמֶּ֑ךָ, v. 1.עַם 2 d), Lv 21:1, 4, 15 (H), Ez 18:18 and (perhaps) 2 K 4:13.—בֶּן־עַמִּי (v. p. 122 b) perhaps = son of my kinsman; on n.pr. c. עַם v. GrayProp. N. 41 ff..
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Derived from עמם (ʻâmam) (H6004) — to darken.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עִם
- v. עַם) junction; (prep.) with, near. Sabb. I, 8 עם השמש with the sun, i.e. as long as the sun shines, before sunset. Ib. II, 7 עם חשיכה, v. חֲשֵׁיכָה. Ber. 7ᵃ ותתנהג עם בניך וכ׳ and deal with thy children mercifully. Snh. 23ᵃ מי חותם עִמָּהֶן who is to sign as witness with them; a. fr.
עִם ²
- Targ. O. Gen. XXV, 11. Targ. Ps. LIV, 2 עִימָּנָא Ms. (ed. גַּבָּן). Targ. Job XXXII, 6 עִימְּכוֹן Ms. (ed. יַתְכוֹן); a. fr.
עַם
- עמם to press, crowd, join) gathering, crowd, people. Snh. 94ᵇ, v. עָיֵף. Men. 53ᵇ יבא זח … לעם זו let ‘this one’ (Moses) come and receive ‘this’ (the Law) … for ‘this people’ (Israel); a. fr.—עם הארץ, v. אֶרֶץ.—Pl. עַמִּים gentiles. Sabb. 14ᵇ, a. fr. על ארץ הע׳ concerning (importations from) heathen countries. Y. Shebi. VI, 36ᵇ bot.; a. fr.—V. עֲמָם.
עַם ²
- Targ. Gen. XII, 2. Targ. Ez. XLV, 16. Targ. Cant. VI, 5; a. v. fr.—Erub. 14ᵇ, a. e. מאי ע׳ דבר, v. דְּבַר. Y. Kil. V, 29ᵈ bot. כל ע׳; Y. Yeb. XIII, beg. 13ᵇ כל עַמָּה, a. fr., v. כּוֹל. Sot. IX, 15 ע׳ דארעא = עם הארץ, ignorant people; a. fr.—Pl., v. עֲמַם II.
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Forms in the corpus
The 348 distinct written forms H5971 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 288 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5971, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- עמון ʻAmmôwn H5983 Ammon
- עמיאל ʻAmmîyʼêl H5988 Ammiel
- עמיהוד ʻAmmîyhûwd H5989 Ammihud
- עמיזבד ʻAmmîyzâbâd H5990 Ammizabad
- עמיחור ʻAmmîychûwr H5991 Ammihur
- עמינדב ʻAmmîynâdâb H5992 Amminadab
- עמי נדיב ʻAmmîy Nâdîyb H5993 Amminadib
- עמישדי ʻAmmîyshadday H5996 Ammishaddai
- עמעד ʻAmʻâd H6008 Amad
- עמרם ʻAmrâm H6019 Amram
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 15 — not the complete family. 10 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1,549 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1,655 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 11:6
- Exodus 1:9
- Leviticus 4:3
- Numbers 5:21
- Deuteronomy 1:28
- Joshua 1:2
- Judges 1:16
- Ruth 1:6
- 1 Samuel 2:13
- 2 Samuel 1:4
- 1 Kings 1:39
- 2 Kings 3:7
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
