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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.

  • 1 Chronicles 16:28
    Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
  • 1 Chronicles 16:36
    Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
  • 1 Chronicles 16:43
    And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.
  • 1 Chronicles 17:6
    Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?
  • 1 Chronicles 17:7
    Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:
  • 1 Chronicles 17:9
    Also I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place, and shall be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the beginning,
  • 1 Chronicles 17:10
    And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. Moreover I will subdue all thine enemies. Furthermore I tell thee that the LORD will build thee an house.
  • 1 Chronicles 17:21
    And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?
  • 1 Chronicles 17:22
    For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, LORD, becamest their God.
  • 1 Chronicles 18:14
    So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.