עַם

ampeople
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine1,868 occurrences39 books1,655 verses
This word comes from the names of Amaw and People's Gate.

Definition

from H6004; a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
Traditional renderings: folk, men, nation, people.

Glossary entries

Amaw

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

1,868 total
  1. 2 Samuel 24:10הָעָ֑םס · the troops
    After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
  2. 2 Samuel 24:15הָעָ֗ם · of the people
    So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
  3. 2 Samuel 24:16בָּעָם֙ · the people
    But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
  4. 2 Samuel 24:17בָעָ֗ם · the people
    When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
  5. 2 Samuel 24:21הָעָֽם׃ · the people
    “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” Araunah said. “To buy your threshing floor,” David replied, “that I may build an altar to the LORD, so that the plague upon the people may be halted.”
  6. 1 Kings 1:39הָעָ֔ם · the people
    Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tabernacle and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the ram’s horn, and all the people proclaimed, “Long live King Solomon!”
  7. 1 Kings 1:40 (2×)הָעָם֙ · the people; וְהָעָם֙
    All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.
  8. 1 Kings 3:2הָעָ֔ם · The people
    The people, however, were still sacrificing on the high places because a house for the Name of the LORD had not yet been built.
  9. 1 Kings 3:8 (2×)עַמְּךָ֖ · the people; עַם־ · a people
    Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
  10. 1 Kings 3:9 (2×)עַמְּךָ֔ · Your people; עַמְּךָ֥ · people of Yours
    Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”
  11. 1 Kings 4:34הָ֣עַמִּ֔ים · nations
    So men of all nations came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, sent by all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
  12. 1 Kings 5:7הָעָ֥ם · people
    When Hiram received Solomon’s message, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day! He has given David a wise son over this great people!”
  13. 1 Kings 5:16בָּעָ֔ם · the workers
    …not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.
  14. 1 Kings 6:13עַמִּ֥י · My people
    And I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”
  15. 1 Kings 8:16 (2×)עַמִּ֣י · I brought My people; עַמִּ֥י · My people
    ‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
  16. 1 Kings 8:30וְעַמְּךָ֣ · and of Your people
    Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
  17. 1 Kings 8:33עַמְּךָ֧ · When Your people
    When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,
  18. 1 Kings 8:34עַמְּךָ֣ · of Your people
    …then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.
  19. 1 Kings 8:36 (2×)וְעַמְּךָ֣ · Your people; לְעַמְּךָ֖ · Your people
    …then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
  20. 1 Kings 8:38עַמְּךָ֣ · Your people
    …then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—
  21. 1 Kings 8:41מֵעַמְּךָ֥ · of Your people
    And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—
  22. 1 Kings 8:43 (2×)עַמֵּ֨י · the peoples; כְּעַמְּךָ֣ · as [do] Your people
    …then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
  23. 1 Kings 8:44עַמְּךָ֤ · Your people
    When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,
  24. 1 Kings 8:50לְעַמְּךָ֙ · Your people
    May You forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all the transgressions they have committed against You, and may You grant them compassion in the eyes of their captors to show them mercy.
  25. 1 Kings 8:51עַמְּךָ֥ · are Your people
    For they are Your people and Your inheritance; You brought them out of Egypt, out of the furnace for iron.
  26. 1 Kings 8:52עַמְּךָ֣ · Your people
    May Your eyes be open to the pleas of Your servant and of Your people Israel, and may You listen to them whenever they call to You.
  27. 1 Kings 8:53עַמֵּ֣י · the peoples
    For You, O Lord GOD, have set them apart from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Your servant Moses when You brought our fathers out of Egypt.”
  28. 1 Kings 8:56לְעַמּ֣וֹ · to His people
    “Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel according to all that He promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses.
  29. 1 Kings 8:59עַמּ֥וֹ · of His people
    And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,
  30. 1 Kings 8:60עַמֵּ֣י · the peoples
    …so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God. There is no other!
  31. 1 Kings 8:66 (2×)הָעָ֔ם · [Solomon] sent the people; עַמּֽוֹ׃ · and for His people
    On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the LORD had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.
  32. 1 Kings 9:7הָעַמִּֽים׃ · peoples
    …then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.
  33. 1 Kings 9:20הָ֠עָם · the people
    As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)—
  34. 1 Kings 9:23בָּעָ֔ם · the people
    They were also the chief officers over Solomon’s projects: 550 supervisors over the people who did the work.
  35. 1 Kings 12:5הָעָֽם׃ · So the people
    Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then return to me.” So the people departed.
  36. 1 Kings 12:6הָֽעָם־ · people
    Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
  37. 1 Kings 12:7לָעָ֤ם · people
    They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
  38. 1 Kings 12:9הָעָ֣ם · people
    He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
  39. 1 Kings 12:10לָעָ֣ם · people
    The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
  40. 1 Kings 12:12הָעָ֛ם · the people
    After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
  41. 1 Kings 12:13הָעָ֖ם · the people
    And the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the elders
  42. 1 Kings 12:15הָעָ֑ם · the people
    So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
  43. 1 Kings 12:16הָעָ֣ם · [they]
    When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,