Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

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);

1655 instances of the word עַם ʻam (H5971)


  • Ezra 10:1 - had prayed Now when Ezra and when he had confessed weeping and casting himself down before the house of God there assembled unto him out of Israel congregation great a very of men and women and children weeping for the people very sore

  • Ezra 10:2 - answered And Shechaniah one of the sons of Jehiel one of the sons of Elam and said unto Ezra We have trespassed against our God and have taken wives strange of the people of the land yet now there is hope in Israel

  • Ezra 10:9 - gathered themselves together of Judah and Benjamin unto Jerusalem within three days day of the month It was the ninth on the twentieth day of the month sat and all the people in the street of the house of God trembling because of this matter and for the great rain

  • Ezra 10:11 - Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers and do his pleasure and separate yourselves from the people of the land wives and from the strange

  • Ezra 10:13 - But the people are many and it is a time of much rain and we are not able to stand without neither is this a work day of one or two for we are many that have transgressed in this thing

  • Genesis 11:6 - said And the LORD Behold the people and they have all one language and they have all one and this they begin to do and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do

  • Genesis 14:16 - And he brought back all the goods Lot his brother all the goods And he brought back and the women also and the people

  • Genesis 17:14 - And the uncircumcised man child whose is not circumcised flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off that soul from his people my covenant he hath broken

  • Genesis 17:16 - And I will bless her and give thee a son And I will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations kings of people

  • Genesis 19:4 - But before they lay down even the men of the city even the men of Sodom compassed the house and young both old all the people from every quarter

  • Genesis 23:7 - stood up And Abraham and bowed himself to the people of the land even to the children of Heth

  • Genesis 23:11 - Nay my lord hear me the field give thee and the cave give thee in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee bury thy dead

  • Genesis 23:12 - bowed down And Abraham himself before the people of the land

  • Genesis 23:13 - And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land saying But if thou wilt give it I pray thee hear me I will give thee money for the field take it of me and I will bury my dead

  • Genesis 25:8 - gave up the ghost and died Then Abraham old age in a good an old man and full of years and was gathered to his people

  • Genesis 25:17 - And these are the years of the life of Ishmael an hundred And these are the years and thirty And these are the years and seven And these are the years and he gave up the ghost and died and was gathered unto his people

  • Genesis 26:10 - said And Abimelech What is this thou hast done might lightly have lien unto us one of the people with thy wife and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness

  • Genesis 26:11 - charged And Abimelech all his people saying He that toucheth this man or his wife be put to death be put to death

  • Genesis 27:29 - serve Let people bow down thee and nations to thee be lord over thy brethren bow down sons and let thy mother's be every one that curseth be every one that curseth be he that blesseth be he that blesseth

  • Genesis 28:3 - And God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee that thou mayest be a multitude of people