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)


  • 1 Kings 21:9 - And she wrote in the letters saying Proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high among the people

  • 1 Kings 21:12 - They proclaimed a fast and set Naboth on high among the people

  • 1 Kings 21:13 - And there came in two children of Belial and sat witnessed of Belial Naboth in the presence of the people saying did blaspheme Naboth God and the king Then they carried him forth out of the city and stoned him with stones that he died

  • 1 Samuel 2:13 - custom And the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice came servant And the priests was in seething while the flesh with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand

  • 1 Samuel 2:23 - And he said unto them Why do dealings for I hear dealings of your evil by all this people

  • 1 Samuel 2:24 - Nay my sons for it is no good report that I hear to transgress people ye make the LORD'S

  • 1 Samuel 2:29 - Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering which I have commanded in my habitation and honourest thy sons above me to make yourselves fat with the chiefest and at mine offering of Israel my people

  • 1 Samuel 4:3 - unto us that when it cometh And when the people into the camp said the elders of Israel smitten Wherefore hath the LORD us to day before the Philistines Let us fetch out of Shiloh the ark of the covenant Wherefore hath the LORD unto us that when it cometh among us it may save us out of the hand of our enemies

  • 1 Samuel 4:4 - sent So the people to Shiloh that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts which dwelleth between the cherubims and the two sons of Eli from thence the ark of the covenant of God Hophni and Phinehas

  • 1 Samuel 4:17 - answered And the messenger and said is fled Israel before the Philistines slaughter and there hath been also a great among the people and thy two sons are dead also Hophni and Phinehas and the ark of God is taken

  • 1 Samuel 5:10 - Therefore they sent And it came to pass as the ark of God to Ekron came And it came to pass as the ark of God to Ekron cried out that the Ekronites saying They have brought about And it came to pass as the ark of God of Israel to us to slay us and our people

  • 1 Samuel 5:11 - Send away and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said Send away the ark of God of Israel and let it go again to his own place that it slay us not and our people destruction for there was a deadly throughout all the city heavy was very the hand of God

  • 1 Samuel 6:19 - And he smote men of Bethshemesh because they had looked into the ark because the LORD And he smote and the people and threescore and ten the men fifty thousand the men lamented and the people And he smote because the LORD and the people slaughter with a great

  • 1 Samuel 8:7 - in all that they say And the LORD unto Samuel Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say thee but they have rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign

  • 1 Samuel 8:10 - told And Samuel all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king

  • 1 Samuel 8:19 - refused Nevertheless the people to obey the voice of Samuel and they said Nay but we will have a king

  • 1 Samuel 8:21 - heard And Samuel all the words of the people and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 9:2 - And he had a son whose name was Saul a choice young man a goodlier person And he had a son of Israel a goodlier than he from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people

  • 1 Samuel 9:12 - And they answered them and said He is behold he is before you make haste to day now for he came to the city for there is a sacrifice to day of the people in the high place

  • 1 Samuel 9:13 - As soon as ye be come into the city ye shall straightway find Now therefore get you up to the high place they eat they eat for the people As soon as ye be come because he doth bless the sacrifice and afterwards ye shall straightway they eat that be bidden Now therefore get you up for about this time find