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);
1 Samuel 13:2 - chose Saul him three and a thousand men of Israel Saul and a thousand in Michmash and in mount Bethel and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent
1 Samuel 13:4 - And all Israel heard say had smitten Saul a garrison of the Philistines also was had in abomination And all Israel of the Philistines were called together And the people after Saul to Gilgal
1 Samuel 13:5 - And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and people as the sand shore which is on the sea in multitude and they came up and pitched in Michmash eastward from Bethaven
1 Samuel 13:6 - When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait were distressed for the people did hide for the people themselves in caves and in rocks and in high places and in pits
1 Samuel 13:7 - And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead As for Saul he was yet in Gilgal and all the people him trembling followed
1 Samuel 13:8 - And he tarried seven days according to the set time had appointed but Samuel came had appointed but Samuel not to Gilgal were scattered and the people
1 Samuel 13:11 - said And Samuel What hast thou done said And Saul Because I saw were scattered that the people from me and that thou camest appointed not within the days and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash
1 Samuel 13:14 - But now thy kingdom shall not continue hath sought and the LORD him a man after his own heart commanded and the LORD him to be captain over his people because thou hast not kept commanded and the LORD
1 Samuel 13:15 - arose And Samuel and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin numbered And Saul the people that were present with him about six hundred men
1 Samuel 13:16 - And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people that were present with them abode in Gibeah of Benjamin but the Philistines encamped in Michmash
1 Samuel 13:22 - So it came to pass in the day of battle found that there was neither sword nor spear in the hand of any of the people but with Saul and Jonathan found but with Saul and Jonathan his son
1 Samuel 14:2 - And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron and the people that were with him were about six hundred men
1 Samuel 14:3 - And Ahiah the son of Ahitub brother Ichabod's the son of Phinehas the son of Eli priest the LORD'S in Shiloh wearing an ephod And the people knew was gone not that Jonathan
1 Samuel 14:15 - And there was trembling in the host in the field and among all the people the garrison and the spoilers they also trembled quaked and the earth And there was trembling so it was a very great
1 Samuel 14:17 - Then said Saul unto the people from us And when they had numbered now and see who is gone from us And when they had numbered behold Jonathan and his armourbearer
1 Samuel 14:20 - that were with him assembled And Saul and all the people themselves and they came to the battle sword and behold every man's was against his fellow discomfiture great and there was a very
1 Samuel 14:24 - And the men of Israel were distressed that day had adjured for Saul So none of the people saying Cursed And the men that eateth any food until evening that I may be avenged on mine enemies tasted So none of the people any food
1 Samuel 14:26 - were come And when the people into the wood dropped behold the honey but no man put his hand to his mouth feared And when the people the oath
1 Samuel 14:27 - But Jonathan heard charged not when his father the people wherefore he put forth the end of the rod his hand and dipped it in an honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth were enlightened and his eyes
1 Samuel 14:28 - Then answered be the man And the people and said charged charged Thy father And the people and said Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day were faint And the people