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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.

  • Leviticus 20:17
    And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
  • Leviticus 20:18
    And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
  • Leviticus 20:24
    But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
  • Leviticus 20:26
    And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
  • Leviticus 21:1
    And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:
  • Leviticus 21:4
    But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
  • Leviticus 21:14
    A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.
  • Leviticus 21:15
    Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
  • Leviticus 23:29
    For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
  • Leviticus 23:30
    And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.