עַם am

Hebrew word for “people” · Strong’s H5971 · used 1,868 times in 1,655 verses

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Meaning

: people/nation; 1) nation, people; 1a) people, nation; 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men

Senses in the lexicon

• people (1,757)
• people: soldiers (77)
• kinsman (31)
• (Ibleam)-am (1)
• people: creatures (1)
• People's (Gate) (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for am in context, with how often each is used:

• people 1,596
• peoples 193
• kinspeoples 15
• among the peoples 14
• among the people 12
• among people 7
• over the people 5
• among kinspeoples 4
• like people 4
• own people 3
• one of people 2
• like the peoples 2

Where it is used

Also in 27 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Samuel 14 (19), Numbers 11 (18), Exodus 32 (17), 1 Kings 8 (17), Deuteronomy 27 (16), Exodus 19 (15), Exodus 8 (13), Judges 9 (13), 1 Kings 12 (13), Exodus 18 (12)

Forms

• העם 744
• עם 210
• עמי 193
• עמו 99
• לעם 92
• עמך 82
• עמים 80
• העמים 71
• והעם 43
• בעם 26

Words used with it

Words that share verses with am more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• זֶה zeh “this” 179
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 140
• אַתָּה attah “you(m.s.)” 129
• מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 108
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 128
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 113
• דָּבָר davar “word” 123
• אֵת et “with” 104
• מִן־ min “from” 109
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 105
• דָבַר davar “to speak” 106
• הֶם hem “them” 103

Key verses

The verses using am that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 49:10 — The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
• Exodus 19:5 — Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
• 2 Chronicles 36:16 — But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was…
• Isaiah 11:10 — And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
• Isaiah 11:11 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from…
• Jeremiah 5:31 — The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
• Jeremiah 31:33 — But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write…
• Ezekiel 33:31 — And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth…
• Daniel 9:24 — Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for…
• Daniel 9:26 — And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the…
• Micah 4:1 — But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be…
• Zechariah 13:9 — And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.