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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.

  • 2 Kings 11:20
    And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was in quiet: and they slew Athaliah with the sword beside the king's house.
  • 2 Kings 12:3
    But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
  • 2 Kings 12:8
    And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
  • 2 Kings 13:7
    Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
  • 2 Kings 14:4
    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
  • 2 Kings 14:21
    And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
  • 2 Kings 15:4
    Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
  • 2 Kings 15:5
    And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
  • 2 Kings 15:10
    And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
  • 2 Kings 15:35
    Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.