Strong's H5971: עַם (ʻam) Definition
- Strong's number
- H5971
- Lemma
- עַם
- Transliteration
- ʻam
- Pronunciation
- am
- Strong's definition
- 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. from H6004 (עָמַם);
Deuteronomy 33:29 - Happy art thou O Israel who is like unto thee O people saved by the LORD the shield of thy help and who is the sword of thy excellency shall be found liars and thine enemies upon their high places unto thee and thou shalt tread
Ecclesiastes 4:16 - There is no end of all the people even of all that have been before them they also that come after shall not rejoice in him Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit
Ecclesiastes 12:9 - And moreover because the preacher was wise he still taught knowledge the people and sought out and set in order proverbs many
Esther 1:5 - were expired And when these days made of the king's unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace both unto great and small a feast seven And when these days in the court of the garden palace of the king's
Esther 1:11 - To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal to shew the people and the princes her beauty for she was fair to look on
Esther 1:16 - answered And Memucan before of the king and the princes of the king hath not done wrong Vashti the queen and the princes and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus
Esther 1:22 - For he sent letters into every province into all the king's into every province into every province according to the writing of every people of every people according to the language that every man should bear rule in his own house and that it should be published according to the language of every people
Esther 2:10 - had not shewed Esther her people nor her kindred for Mordecai had charged had not shewed
Esther 2:20 - Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people had charged as Mordecai the commandment as Mordecai Esther did like as when she was brought up
Esther 3:6 - scorn And he thought to lay hands of Mordecai alone for they had shewed even the people of Mordecai sought wherefore Haman to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus even the people of Mordecai
Esther 3:8 - said And Haman therefore it is not for the king's Ahasuerus There is among the people a certain scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom and their laws are diverse among the people and their laws therefore it is not for the king's neither keep therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer
Esther 3:11 - said And the king unto Haman The silver is given to thee the people also to do good with them as it seemeth
Esther 3:12 - called scribes Then were the king's month of the first on the thirteenth day and there was written had commanded according to all that Haman lieutenants Then were the king's and to the governors of every province of every province and to the rulers of every people of every people of every province of every province according to the writing of every people of every people after their language in the name Then were the king's Ahasuerus and there was written and sealed ring Then were the king's
Esther 3:14 - The copy of the writing to be given for a commandment in every province in every province was published unto all people that they should be ready against that day
Esther 4:8 - him the copy of the writing of the decree Also he gave at Shushan to destroy Also he gave them to shew it unto Esther and to declare it unto her and to charge her that she should go in unto the king to make supplication unto him and to make request before him for her people
Esther 4:11 - servants All the king's and the people provinces All the king's do know that whosoever whether man or woman shall come All the king's court into the inner but I have not been called there is one law of his to put him to death except shall hold out All the king's sceptre the golden that he may live but I have not been called shall come All the king's these thirty days
Esther 7:3 - answered Then Esther the queen and said If I have found favour in thy sight O king O king and if it please be given let my life me at my petition and my people at my request
Esther 7:4 - For we are sold I and my people to be destroyed to be slain and to perish But if for bondmen and bondwomen For we are sold I had held my tongue although the enemy could not countervail damage the king's
Esther 8:6 - For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people For how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred
Esther 8:9 - called scribes Then were the king's at that time month in the third month Sivan on the three and twentieth day thereof and it was written commanded according to all that Mordecai and to the Jews and to the lieutenants and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia and seven and twentieth an hundred of the provinces of the provinces of the provinces according to the writing thereof and unto every people thereof and unto every people after their language and to the Jews according to the writing after their language