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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.

  • Lamentations 1:18
    The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
  • Lamentations 2:11
    Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
  • Lamentations 3:14
    I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
  • Lamentations 3:45
    Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
  • Lamentations 3:48
    Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Lamentations 4:3
    Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
  • Lamentations 4:6
    For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
  • Lamentations 4:10
    The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Ezekiel 3:5
    For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
  • Ezekiel 3:6
    Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.