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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.

  • Exodus 11:2
    Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
  • Exodus 11:3
    And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the people.
  • Exodus 11:8
    And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.
  • Exodus 12:27
    That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
  • Exodus 12:31
    And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
  • Exodus 12:33
    And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
  • Exodus 12:34
    And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
  • Exodus 12:36
    And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
  • Exodus 13:3
    And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
  • Exodus 13:17
    And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: