HebrewH5971Noun (Masculine)

עַם

am

1,540Occurrences
H5971Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

from H6004 (עָמַם);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
people/nation 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

עַם appears 1,540 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
147
Exodus
134
Isaiah
119
2 Chronicles
95
Deuteronomy
93
1 Samuel
90
Ezk
90
2 Samuel
79

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 10:9BSB

They stripped Saul, cut off his head, took his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among their people.

2 Kings 22:13BSB

“Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”

Exodus 23:11BSB

but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

Isaiah 47:6BSB

I was angry with My people;I profaned My heritage,and I placed them under your control.You showed them no mercy;even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

Joshua 5:5BSB

Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.