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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.

  • Numbers 11:34
    And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
  • Numbers 11:35
    And the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
  • Numbers 12:15
    And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
  • Numbers 12:16
    And afterward the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
  • Numbers 13:18
    And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
  • Numbers 13:28
    Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
  • Numbers 13:30
    And 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
    But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
  • Numbers 13:32
    And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
  • Numbers 14:1
    And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.