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Strong's numbers

עַם (H5971)

ʻam

am

from עָמַם; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock; folk, men, nation, people.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

[עַם] n.[m.] kinsman (on father's side)
עַם, עָם 1810 n.m. people
1 a people, nation
2 = smaller units
3 = common people
4 people in gen., persons
5 phrases

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


1654 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Esther 10:3
    For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
  • Job 12:2
    No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
  • Job 12:24
    He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
  • Job 17:6
    He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.
  • Job 18:19
    He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
  • Job 34:20
    In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.
  • Job 34:30
    That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
  • Job 36:20
    Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.
  • Job 36:31
    For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
  • Psalms 3:6
    I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.