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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.

  • 1 Kings 8:41
    Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
  • 1 Kings 8:43
    Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
  • 1 Kings 8:44
    If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:
  • 1 Kings 8:50
    And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
  • 1 Kings 8:51
    For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
  • 1 Kings 8:52
    That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call for unto thee.
  • 1 Kings 8:53
    For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.
  • 1 Kings 8:56
    Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
  • 1 Kings 8:59
    And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
  • 1 Kings 8:60
    That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.