Kept for this visit
Notes, starred verses and bookmarks kept while signed out last until this visit ends. Create a free account and everything you keep here moves into it, saved for good.

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.

  • Judges 21:9
    For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
  • Judges 21:15
    And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
  • Ruth 1:6
    Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
  • Ruth 1:10
    And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.
  • Ruth 1:15
    And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.
  • Ruth 1:16
    And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
  • Ruth 2:11
    And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.
  • Ruth 3:11
    And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.
  • Ruth 4:4
    And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.
  • Ruth 4:9
    And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.